Even if it started out that way, where "surge" pricing is current pricing and "off-surge" pricing is cheaper, leading to consumers paying less overall, it won't stay that way. It would only be that way to prime consumers mentally to accept that dynamic pricing. After which they'll slowly increase prices, 10 cents or whatever every month. Soon enough it'll cost more and the corporation can brag about how it increased profits again this quarter. Remember publicly traded companies are legally obligated to maximize profit - the only time they aren't doing so is when they're burning money to prime consumers to accept bullshit or building a captive base, in order to eventually maximize profits.
pokemaster787
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I really hope you're a troll because if anyone genuinely thinks like this I am concerned for democracy.
With guns in general, or with Polymer80 or similar products? I’m guessing he’s intentionally mixing the two to make it sound scarier than it is.
This is what I hate about the rhetoric around gun control, especially "ghost guns"
As a gun owner that thinks guns are fucking cool, I'm happy to have reasonable compromises and regulations around them. Compromises and regulations that do something to stop crime. Almost all cases of 3D printed guns being used in crime are when the crime is having a 3D printed firearm (mostly in Europe). Actual violent crime it is a fraction of a fraction of a fraction. We should focus on legislation that does something about the problem, not ban things we arbitrarily give scary names like "Ghost guns." Look at the actual numbers, the actual types of crimes being committed, go after those things. Don't start background checking people for 3D printer purchases of all things.
Honestly just left it. Debating on putting carpet in the room where it's pretty bad. But decided if I couldn't do it well myself I'd just wait until I was ready to fork over money to have it done correctly.
Usually that affects businesses that either provide an online service, so their costs spike massively
It was reported they were spending half a million USD a month on server costs. A lot of the servers are player-hosted but there are also official servers hosted by PocketPair. Half a million won't immediately crush them with their current sales numbers but it isn't great either.
Honestly no idea why they even have official servers.
CZ USA should recall the shitty bolts causing OOB detonations in the 9mm Scorpions before they release anything else...
Hai, Kazuma desu
750ti and 1050ti were pretty well liked since they didn't need external power (easy to toss into a cheap pre built) and were a reasonable price.
These days they aren't even a reasonable price though.
I've always gotta wonder where the fuck the dust cover went when I see pictures of people using/holding AKs without them. They aren't exactly small or something you take off very often, pretty hard to lose
And we found that overwhelmingly employees were happier and worked more efficiently from home.
I don't care if they were intended to be temporary. I do not owe my employer any more than the work they pay me to do. If I do that same work from home, in less time, more efficiently, and effectively, than any employer making me go to an office can go fuck thesmelves.
Again, you haven't said a reason employees should have to go in. You reek of "Well I suffered so everyone else has to hur dur"
The world changes, get with the fucking times and stop licking the boots of your corporate overlords.
I'll bite, what's the reason you think people have to go into the office if they get their work done more efficiently not doing so?
Do the employees somehow owe their free time to the employers? Should we kiss their boots while we're at it?
I own the Sovol SV06, it was my first printer but it was also the cheapest option for me ($169 IIRC). The Sovol has given me two problems in the entire time I used it:
When it came in, the extruder was jammed. Wouldn't print or extrude any filament for some reason. Followed a 2 minute video on Sovol's Amazon page to resolve it (although it did involve disassembling the hotend).
The extruder decided to encase itself in plastic one day when I printed something on it. That was a bitch and a half to clean, had to take a heat gun to it to soften the plastic then scrape it off without burning myself. My best guess is it was caused by me forgetting to run bed leveling after moving the printer a bit, hasn't happened again.
Other than those two times it just works every time I need it. It was sitting dormant for ~3 months and I just kicked off a print yesterday, no problems. Fired right up and everything printed perfectly.
With that said, is it €239 of "Just works"? Probably not. I immediately couldn't do some prints I planned because of the build volume (although all three of your options have the same build volume). So I'm already considering upgrading to an SV06 Plus. So check some of what you want to print that it'll fit in 220x220x250.
I did some research on your other options and as far as I can tell, the main difference between them and the Sovol is the all metal hotend and print speed.
Sovol SV06 has an all-metal hotend so you can print high temperature filaments (PETG/TPE/CFN/etc) without worry (does require a harder nozzle most likely though). The other two seem to have some metal but are not fully metal, so if you want to hop into the more exotic materials you'll have to upgrade those.
Second is speed, my SV06 prints at 80 mm/s. It is slow. Smallest prints take around 2-3 hours. My current print will be done after 24 hours. This is fine for me as most of my prints need complex geometry, so I'd rather it take longer and be accurate than run it too fast. The others claim a max speed of 250mm/s which would be a bit over 3x faster than the Sovol. If they can actually print at that speed without looking awful, that's a pretty big upgrade time-wise.
If you need exotic filaments and don't want to upgrade the hotend yourself for it then consider the Sovol. Other than that, the price in your region makes it not an option in my opinion. The Sovol just is a budget printer, only makes sense at budget prices. The Kobra and Ended you mentioned look very similar other than that, they both have auto bed leveling (a must have), same build size, very similar designs. Personally I'd lean towards the Ender, just for the community support. But do some research and see how many community member posts you see online resolved with the two. They seem to be functionally identical to me otherwise (just looking at a spec sheet, I do not have irl experience with either of these printers)