This is what I found.

With Nebula and CuriosityStream, most of the things I follow are still on YouTube.

There is a phone and it looks like also a MagSafe keyboard

I purchased a K1 Max directly from Creality in October 2024.

This was well after the K1 Max had recieved the K1C upgrades. People had been getting K1 Max units with the small X/Y pulleys and upgrade hot end for MONTHS.

I bought it directly from Creality expecting to get a current revision.

I received a rev1 unit. It had signs of use. I asked Creality to replace it with the current revision and they decline.

It never really printed right. Using their filament and their slicer about 40% of the prints would fail. They kept dragging me along for weeks. I assume this was to push me out of the return window.

They literally never one entertained my suggestion of returning.

Until I call my credit card company. VISA said to box it up, email them one last time demanding a return label for a full refund, and if they did not give me one, VISA would do a charge back.

Whilst boxing it up I noticed another shipping label from before the K1C was released.

So they had absolutely sold me a unit that was not brand new.

Now I have a Sovol SV08 and if I was looking for a new printer I would be looking at the Snapmaker U1

All two dongles I have used (Google, Apple) have a DAC.

I’m pretty sure the analog ones are the exception, not the rule.

I’ve honestly had a lot of luck booting a Windows SSD on different computers.

I’m not sure which specific issue you are referring too, but personally I had HW transcoding break with the new version and also direct play seem to also break with the newest Android TV version. Nothing with HDR would play at all, despite using an Nvidia Shield.

I rolled back both since I couldn’t find anyone with similar issues.

I flashed to mainline shortly after getting it. I didn’t have any issues with stock firmware, only swapped because if the cartographer.

If you don’t mind minor amounts of tinkering to get it good, it’s been great since switching to the Cartographer.

Terrible bed adhesive. Cleaned the bed multiple times. Tried with and without glue sticks. It had over 2mm of deviation.

Prints would always warp on the right side where the aux fan was blowing on them.

I had a K1 Max I got directly from Creality in October.

It would print ASA okay, but PETG and PLA failed like 75% of the time.

Switched to a Sovol SV08 with a cartographer and I can’t remember having a failed print since. I print almost exclusively in PETG now.

BRP was separate from Bombardier since 2003.

Just looked it up, BRP was sold off from Bombardier in 2003…

This Bombardier doesn’t have dealerships.

They made aircrafts and they haven’t had anything to do with BRP for like 12 years 23 years and sold off the transportation (rail) division about 5 years ago.

I have had a SV08 for a few weeks. Had a K1 Max for the same time period. I had 2 or two failed prints on the SV08 and about 3 dozen failed prints.

I returned the K1 Max (with huge struggles with support)

Previously I had a Labist ET4 that only worked for a out 5 prints total before giving up on it.

I will agree with your statement. If you are willing to put in a bit of research on YouTube and GITHUB and swap a few parts and spend a few hours you’ll have a hilarious large printer that just spits out almost anything you throw at it, besides ABS and ASA… For now…

But a 135 QR 29er wheel isn’t that special, so finding one that wasn’t either a junk hub or $600 hub shouldn’t have been an issue. Even finding TA non boost wheels is becoming difficult.

I ended up finding a lightly used Nukeproof wheel for around $100.

Thankfully the fork on that same bike is just using off the shelf SRAM parts.

Except if they change BB or axle spacing standards, which seems to be happening every few years.

I struggled to find a half decent 135 QR 29er wheel last year for my Trek Xcaliber. A nearly $2000CDN bike from 2016 with nothing wrong except the free hub, and everywhere told me to just get a new bike.

I like my bikes, but I really hate the people running the industry.

Keepalived

I run multiple pinholes using keepalived. Then I only use one DNS in my DHCP server. Second pihole will seemlessly take over if the first one goes down whilst using the original DNS address.

Work quite well. I had to learn the hard way that only using a single pihole was just asking for my partner to be mad when it didn’t work / when I was doing server maintenance. Now I have multiple and they can all seemlessly take over if any my server nodes are down

I’ll die before I give up my automatic wipers! Thankfully my 2004 and 2013 VWs have it and don’t lock me out of features like new cars.

Linux runs on anything.

That is not correct. The DRAM is not part of the same die that the SoC is on. It is separate packages directly beside the SoC. The storage is also separate packages.

If it was all one die it would be huge and have poor yields.