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  • The benefit of these is that they actively dry your filament as it rolls into the printer. At least mine does that which has been great to reduce the time needed to prep for my prints. Mine lets you set the temperature and it will keep that as it rolls in.

    I heard about the food dryers but this was my choice also because I have limited space in my smaller home. This little box is about the size of a spool and sits behind my printer and I have it automated to turn on when I turn on my printer too.




  • This is why you need loyal and dependable managers/assistants working for you. You’ll be sacrificing a bit of money but you will be helping keep you sane and potentially live longer due to less stress.

    My dad went through this and I watched him suffer for it. He should have hired middlemen to help run the business and when he went ill, he relied on me and my mom to help with the business instead.

    You need to decide what jobs this person or these people will need to do to help you run this business. These need to be trustworthy people because you want them to rely on you as little as possible. Otherwise you will have them calling you and bothering you, not to the same extent, but it will continue and you won’t get free time away from the business.

    You also need to set times when you want to be away. Times when you are to only be contacted when it is an absolute emergency. Again, these need to be trustworthy people because you will be putting the business fully in their hands. Think of this as a daycare and you are leaving your baby in their hands while you and your wife go travel the world for a week. You need to know your baby is in good hands and won’t be neglected or taken advantage of and that happens by hiring only the person/people you trust. Preferably people as a group so they hold each other accountable, in theory.

    These will likely be manager or assistant roles who report directly to you. I’d suggest determining what duties need to be done and then you can have a better idea of how many duties can be assigned to a role, whether one person can realistically take it on in your absence or if you need multiple positions to separate these duties. In doing so, you may also be indirectly growing the business and be able to expand your clientele, expand the services/products you offer, and/or raise prices to keep up with the new roles that will be added to help improve performance and overall employee morale.






  • When I sleep at my mom’s house, there’s a smart lamp my brother put in the spare room that has 1 USB port on it and a wireless charging pad. I opt to use the wireless charging pad at night for my phone and the USB for my watch. Makes it so I can charge two devices simultaneously without having to switch out USBs.

    in a car, having wireless charging pad is nice for the convenience of taking it with you and putting it on very quickly and easily, especially if you’re actively driving and just want to do it with the least amount of distractions. Even with USB type C being reversible, you still need to make sure the cable gets in the hole and that’s dangerous to do while driving. But with a wireless pad, you don’t have to look and the magnet helps guide it on correctly for you. You still shouldn’t do this while driving, but out of the two, a vastly safer alternative. Besides that, it’s nicer to be able to just grab your phone and go when leaving the car and also easier when entering. Another addition is that a wireless charging pad takes the place of two accessories and combines them together. So you now have a mount and a charger in one instead of both being separate.

    Hygienically speaking, it’s cleaner in that you don’t have to touch the charger. Best for public use like a coffee cafe. People are gross and I try my hardest not to have touch contact with stuff if I can help it. So to be able to drop my phone down without touching a cable a million other people have been touching helps with that too.

    Even though I like it…I still want a port. A lot of cases don’t allow you to make direct contact to have wireless charging, so it’s not always an option. Also don’t always want to have my phone laying down, sometimes I want to use it while it’s charging, especially when typing, and that’s near impossible with 90% of charging pads unless it’s a special type of MagSafe for iPhones. Then there’s also the fact that I like it as an option in case something breaks. If the port is dirty or damaged, I still have the wireless charging option. Same in reverse if the wireless function ceases to work for some reason.





  • Rick and Morty. I enjoyed the first 3/4 seasons and then in season 4, it just stopped being what it was for me. I can’t really describe why but I lost interest and haven’t gotten back. Losing Justin Roiland cemented that too. Not saying he should’ve stayed, just not having him on anymore made me further lose interest even if he wasn’t providing much to the content of the stories. I know that I would be constantly focused on how that’s not him anymore behind the voices and it would be distracting for me.

    I really liked the show and enjoyed the humor. Being a fan of sci-fi, adult cartoons, and comedy all coming together like that was something I appreciated like Futurama or Venture Bros. I did cringe at a lot of the fan base, but I liked the show for what it was.