I bought the fp6 with /e/os preloaded. It’s generally fine but there are some annoying issues. The most annoying is the brightness detection I’d awful. It defaults to the lowest setting at pretty much all times and adjusts do much that I gave up and turned it off and have been managing it manually.

I never was able to get rcs messages to work

Google maps has basically stopped working Which I’m actually not that upset about.

The default launcher sucks, but I installed Fossify launcher which is great.

There’s no digital assistant, but I ended up getting perplexity to work for that.

On the flipside, the battery life is incredible.

The tracker blocking is amazing.

MicroG is really good.

I think there are a couple for documents, crypt pad is one, and there is another that’s like a french based company I can’t remember the name of. Also murena.io I believe can offer an entire suite of cloud options.

Send it to printerior

Bitwarden, is still the way to go. I say this as a proton customer. I’ve learned to work around it’s small annoyances

I’ve been a fan of making false bottom pieces and using steel wheel weights in them.

Here’s a lamp I made as an example.

Not enough to justify the time spent.

Yeah, I know you are right. Just makes me sad.

Yikes, going to pass on that.

Interesting, how did you get in contact with them? Did you have some marketing that worked better for you?

This is really thoughtful advice. I super appreciate it. I don’t know what to do, I’ve had a lot of fun making stuff to solve peoples needs, but this year it’s all dried up and I’ve been spending the reserves to get into shows, pay for marketing etc…

Maybe I’ll just put everything on pause for a long time.

Yeah there have been a few tables with that no commercial license stuff. For sure.

Hah, when you put it that way… But no, it still has some repeat customers, that buy custom trophies, I’ve got a customer wanting me to make molds for them to use for jewelry making, the etsy shop has close to 1000 sales and like 250ish 5 star reviews.

But I’m guessing with a statement like that, you aren’t someone motivated to build on that and take it to the next level

Running /e and Google wallet does not work

Prusa XL is legit good.

I know your budget us $300ish but I’d try to get your hands on a prusa. Used mk3’s might be near that price point. But the mk4 prints so much faster.

The entire prusa ecosystem is awesome, almost every part is printable or easily replaced.

Still, isn’t this just biting the hand that feeds you? Whatever…

Wait, isn’t openai basically reliant in Microsoft for hosting as well as most of their product offerings? And doesn’t Microsoft own LinkedIn? Or am I out of the loop.

I printed one of the ukuleles on printables.

I designed my own wall hooks, those are pretty great.

Made a stove knob to replace the broken one on my range.

Made a shelf for my freezer out of petg because the original one didn’t fit properly and kept falling.

But the crown for me is a dentist office had this little bite block that people would bite down on when they did a 360 xray. The company wasn’t making it anymore so they were cleaning it and reusing it. I bought some of that anti bacterial pla and reverse engineered the bite block. Mine wasn’t perfect but it was close enough. Made them like 75 of them.

I’d read the article if you haven’t already. It doesn’t describe if it’s travel or print speed but it does give some other metrics like 40,000mms^2 acceleration. There is a sentence that reads: high-flow hotend capable of pushing 50mm³ of filament per second.

Buy a fair phone and put /e/os on it.