Sooo…as promised a feedback about the U1:

• it did print a small (10x10x5mm) test cube without issues even without a hood. (Black Forest Filament ASA HF)

• with a improvised hood that was anything but airtight I achieved 57° degrees inside the hood (measured with a temp probe 10cm above the plate). (I literally just chucked my kids toy basket on it)

So. With a proper hood it should be no issue to print ASA in larger prints. But there are two downsides, well,one. The other one might be helpful.

• There is very little room inside the build chamber that is not used, very different from the P1S for example. That will make it hard to just chuck a heater in - it very likely would need to go in the top cover or somewhere else. I have ordered the Panda Breath,but that will take another month to arrive.

• The printer is very open in the bottom.(Literally jusf grated metal) On one hand this might be an issue if too much cold(or dusty) air comes in through that or too much air goes out through that that is then unfiltered.

So my current idea is to actually use the space below the printer for heating or to remix the hood from srinn to have space for the Panda Breath.

Both are good products,for “nothing fancy” the Fritzbox is more fitting,though.

https://tuta.com/en/blog/switzerland-surveillance-plan

While it has been postponed a bit it’s still on the table and even the current laws are far more far reaching than what the EU has. (And Switzerland is well known for intelligence service overreach. Look up the fichenskandal)

And Threema is pretty close to the swiss government in a lot of aspects.

Threema is swiss and that is an issue by now,sadly.

Totally non scheduled, sadly.

In theory I work a flexible time schedule,realistically it’s more or less 0900 to 1800, but it’s very much depending on my clients. These are based worldwide, so if I am unlucky it can happen that (remote) meetings are at 2300 or later. I am on call half of the month, if major incidents happen I got to get up, but luckily these happen infrequently.

My staff works on a fully flexible schedule unless they are on call. The only fixed dates in their workweek is a jour-fixe on Wednesday and of course client meetings. Other than that I don’t care when they work as long as stuff gets done. (My staff is fully remote anyways) People have lives and qualified staff is hard to get - and why should I make people unhappy by insiting on some fixed times that have no operational benefit to me?

Occasionally I add in a ambulance shift, these are 12h+overtime and usally 7-19 or 19-7.

Have a look at Agent DVR. Works locally and the “pro” features that one would need to pay for are basically just Plugins. Everything else works nice without it. Additionally it accepts basically everything you throw at it camera wise and is far easier to configure than frigate, also has a (good) HA integration and is extremly mighty if your system grows over the years.

The mobile app is nice, but it also works fairly well in a browser on mobile.

Did you just seriously recommend port forwarding to a NVR login? Even worse with a consumer grade router? With HTTPS,non Standard Port and a strong password as the only security tips?

Please,people,for the love of god: Don’t do that. Really. Don’t. This is really bad advice,sorry.

Unless you are very very sure that your NVR solution is impecable in terms of security (none are), you are 100% sure you stay up-to-date all the time (including reviewing updates for issues) and have additional measures like fail2ban, IDM/IDS,etc. in place this is a very bad idea. HTTPS is only helping in terms of password transmission/spoofing,which is an unlikely vector here, a non standard port doesn’t help one bit here(have a bit of fun with shodan and see yourself) and while a strong password helps it only helps if the auth of the system and the OS below itself is watertight - a hard task.

It is always a bad idea to port forward unless you really really cannot avoid it.

Use a VPN - as you said, wireguard.

Orca as a flatpak/AppImage works without any issues here.(Debian 13, Fedora 43) There is also a LinuxServer.io version which I tend to run on my server and simply use a browser.

Basically while I have Orca on my Fedora 43 Desktop and a Debian 13 test machine I got tired of synching the filament profiles and somestimes projects between all family devices (5 Notebooks, 3 Desktops). Therefore we simply have a docker container with the Linuxserver.io Orca. That can be accessed from every device and simply loads models from a NFS share. So filament and process data is unified at this single point.

Additionally it provides an added layer of security as my printers live in their own, fully offline, subnet and only this container,Spoolman/Spoolease and Home Assistant can access it. (Thank you Bambu rolleyes)

Yeah. But with any hood (aka the famous ikea hood) it seems to ve already working reasonably good.

In theory the P1S is also not good for ASA due to it’s lack of chamber heating.

In reality I print 50% of my prints with ASA and besides some preheating via plate it is a walk in the park. (Which by now is automated via Home Assistant for me).

And of course there are always external heaters available. A friend has his P1S in a basement that has 5° all year round. A 30€ heater did it. Simply chucked into a corner and done.

But yeah. Out of the box it is an issue,yeah. I will report back.

The Centauri was designed to be a price breaker and has some drawbacks,but currently it is mainly so cheap because they did not manage to get a proper multicolour system going (which they promised). For someone who mainly prints ASA it’s a decent choice and relatively open software wise. I have a few friends who have it and none had issues - and all were new to printing. (Tbh, if I had the WAF and the room I would have one for ASA/technical printing only…but well…)

For the Snapmaker everything I read in terms of ASA would make it “workable”. (Even with a 12$ hood from a Ikea basket). If you send me a DM around the 15th or 20th of January I can tell you more,by then mine should have arrived and I should have had to run tests for all my technical filaments. (Even if you just want to print ASA/technical a toolchanger has its merits,e.g. for mixing materials or -this is not yet implemented but like to follow- different nozzle sizes). It’s very very unlikely that it will take hundreds of hours of work to print ASA - all the people I spoke with basically chucked some kind of hood on it and were good to go and from the technical parameters it should not be an issue. And if it is then it’s "chuck a external heater in some corner and your donex(they come prebuild these days).

Good that you take it seriously. Sadly there are a lot of people onlinr who claim “ASA is not toxic, I sleep next to my unfiltered ASA printer all the time”,etc. The reality is: A longer ASA print is deadly enough to kill a small bird in a small room. While filaments have improved, the filtering solutions used by printers are often,well, not much more than a marketing buzzword and none eliminate the risks - which is an issue as ASA has some potentially cancerous compounds (in theory they are not used normally - but formulations differ between batches), stryrenes are always airway inflamming and ASA is the worst offender for ultrafine particles. So your solution is basically the best thing you can do but sadly my garage has no power and is far to prone to thieves.

And yeah, ask me about Bambu being a shame. They were always “doubtful and not open”, but their shit worked. A few month after I got mine they went full enshitification mode and did their crazy lockdown thing. (Only when facing legal consequences they at least backtracked a bit - but it’s still not all the way). And their support is pure evil (my favorite story: They did not send me part of an order - somewhat expensive spare part and required a video of me not getting the part - how in hell I should have done that is still a mystery - A stronly worded legal letter helped). And their new product lines are somewhat buggy,artificially limited (like the actively heated AMS that cannot print and dry at the same time), the spare parts that don’t exist in the required amounts and the very strange design decisions that seem to be mainly driven by “doing things in a way that keeps the ecosystem closed”.

Btw: Happy new printer year. This is officially my first post 2026.

If you just want to print ASA and no multicolour the Centauri Carbon is actually not a bad choice - it brings everything to print ASA and works relatively reliable. And it goes pretty cheap at the moment.

Not quite in your price range but the current hot shit (would need a improvised top cover and maybe even a external chamber heater) is the Snapmaker U1,but while it seems a decent machine so far it is clearly meant for PLA/PETG/PCTG. Nevertheless I am also using my P1S (Bambu) as a very sucessful ASA printer which in theory shouldn’t be possible (it is,just needs more time and preparation).

BUT: please, for the love of god,the spaghetti monster and everyone else: Still get a proper ventilation/filter solution. While ASA is less toxic than ABS it is still far from healthy.

And stay away from Bambu,imho. Not only is their whole environment becoming more and more walled garden like, their support and spare part availability is simply shit.

Winnie doesn’t need force. He simply can use his economic power.

If he simply puts a full embargo on Russia Putler would be done within a year.

Dude. The bank accounts were closed due to US pressure on the swift system and had nothing to do with the German goverment. Same as the directors of Hateaid were embargoed.

It would actually a large propaganda win for these organisations if there was even the slightest goverment interference here as the supreme constitutional court has a pretty,well, harsh, opinion on that.

Try the Black Forest. We have Lynx and wolves and even a mysterious elk this summer.

And tbh, V60 is a high average to fall from. Had one of these and while I didn’t loved it, I liked it. To quote a friend of mine who still owns one “brutally average and brutally versatile”.

Try a EV6 or 3,though. Good EVs are a huge difference when it comes to “fun in everyday driving” imho, due to their different engine characteristics.

Especially as a European the first two things can be changed to some degree. I live within sight(200m) of a proper nature park that basically is an extension of an national park. And I have four different options for fast train travel within an hour and a (most of the time) reasonably good regional connection and a almost perfect regional connection 25min away.

Tbh, we did specifically move here for these things.

In terms of driving I must disagree - I have driven various cars from the 60ies and while they are gorgeous from the outside, the inside was always very underwhelming and also simply exhausting to drive. But maybe I am also too different - I used to have big company cars (BMW 5, Audi A4/6/7, MB C/E) and did not really like them. Nowadays I drive a EV6 and it’s the most fun car I ever had,by a higr margin.

First time at 8…when my drunk ass neighbour jumped from his 10m high roof and landed on his patio.

Ended with a Helicopter and everything, he actually survived.

Second time was when I was already an EMT to call for backup.

Last time was on Monday to,well, call for backup as an paramedic as radio reception was shit.

Absolutely the best.

Technisation and standardisation are good for the EMS sector.

The whole “it was better when we could do what we want and back then we had only real calls with sicker people and everything was good” is fucking aweful and hurting the profession.

Look, you fucking volunteer dick, I know you do this for 10 years longer than me (and I do it for 25 now),but unlike you I did it full-time and probably had more shifte in one year than you had in your life. Now my back is fucked because back then there was no “electrohydraulic stretcher”, no stair chair, the ventilator was twice as heavy (and could basically nothing), the defibrillator weighted so much we often had to switch carrying it after two floors up.

And we had just as many shit calls,but got actually attacked worse because the shit 2kg radios were shit and had next to zero coverage indoors, and so had cellphones which led to you being unable to even call for backup.

And of course we had longer shifts,needed to work more hours and the whole job market was even more fucked.

“But we didn’t need this and that,we looked at the patient”. Yeah,go fuck yourself. MUCH more people died or took damage from that. So many things were not seen. And it was all accepted as “yeah, that’s how life is”.

So fuck everyone in this field and their nostalgia.

Pihole has a few drawbacks when your systen grows - a lot of things then need to be done by hand that others do either automated or at least easier.

Personally I have become very fond of technitium - it does everything you will ever need and the main drawback is that it seems so fucking overwhelming initially. But: Once you figured out that you basically only need 10% of the fields it becomes easier. And it’s fucking solid and just works and works and works.

Not a fan of Pi-hole itself, but other than that,why not?

(Technitium DNS has some advantages down the road)