I picked this little box up sort of on a whim, but I think it will fill my needs pretty well. I like the form-factor for my purposes.

I fired it up and tested it with Windows preinstalled and... yep, that's enough of that. So, on to my use cases... I need it to primarily do two things:

A) Serve as a replacement for my traveling media box. Several times a year, I spend a week or more staying in a hotel room. I'm not crazy about streaming services and I have found hotel networks to be unreliable at best, so I like to have my media with me, just as I do at home. I had an ancient chromebox (running... some flavor - I've tried several) that I had upgraded the drive in. I load it up with whatever I'm watching and plug it into the hotel TV. Recently, it struggles with some of the files. I don't know if it's failing, or it's simply not up to the task of running some of the higher res stuff, or what. In reality, it has earned its keep several times over, so I don't feel bad about putting it out to pasture.

B) When at home, serve as a clone of my homelab server storage. My home server is a tank made out of recycled server parts and running OMV. It may not be the most efficient thing I could run, but it's been ultra-reliable. I'd like to use the Beelink box to back up my important stuff and also my media library. Ideally, I could plug it in at home and have it wake up once a week or so and sync certain folders, perhaps setting it up somewhere fire-safe.

If this were your use case, how would you go about it? What would you run? I'm just knowledgeable enough to be dangerous, mostly to myself, so please don't bury me too deeply in acronyms and jargon.

Thanks for the help.

Any thoughts on this. It seems pretty obvious as a development once you get into it and there doesn't seem to be much difference between the new patent and the expired patent. Layer adhesion is the big Achilles heel of 3D printing after all.

I recently got back into 3d Printing because it finally seemed like it had matured into a usable production method - where one could actually just make parts instead of spending all their time fiddling with the printer. That said, I realize there are still some benefits to some fiddling.

I'm wondering about other's process using the calibration prints in Orca. Do you go beyond maybe a temp tower, flow rate and pressure advance? Do you do those in any particular order? Bambu owners, do you bother on Bambu filament, or do you find their stock settings are pretty close (I haven't been bothering - most of it seems to do pretty well without).

I started thinking about this because I pulled out some OLD filament when I got my X1C, just to see if any of it was still usable. I dried it all thoroughly with a dehydrator, and have been pleasantly surprised. Much of it has been fine. The really old ABS has been fine as was the slightly newer ASA. The 5-year-old Hatchbox PLA was perfect, but a slightly newer generic PLA roll is terrible (it may have been bad when new). Old PETG has been hit and miss. I had all but given up on one roll, only to try tuning it, and suddenly got usable prints for the rest of the roll. Then the next roll clogged the nozzle on the pressure advance tower. I could just toss it all, but it was already paid for several years ago, so anything good that comes out of it is a win.