I do it from home and do just fine.
My «trick» was to only download complete seasons and movies larger than 14 GB to get loads of freeleech to build ratio and just keep seeding them.

I’m at >10 ratio on TL and stopped caring about sizes as the pool of old files outseed anything new I download.

But I get your point: seedboxes have made it a lot harder to do effortlessly from home

I was heavily on your side untill the comma, man. Margherita is delicious and the ultimate test of the chef as there is nowhere to hide mistakes.

Does it qualify if I add basil after the cook?

I agree. I think there is a reason we have the saying: Never meet your heroes.

Anyone I pick would in my mind have been built up to some impossible to live up to standard that they could never meet, so picking someone passionate about something I like seems like the better move.

Probably Linus Torvalds

I think you make some good points.

We have a old, self built Creality at work that is modded extensively and I love printing with it, but at home it just wont fly. The missus wants to turn the machine on, send over the G-code and pick up nice things later. There is no point trying to convince her to spend hours and hours learning input shaping, filament drying temperatures or the upsides/downsides of dual gear extruders.

People are pissed at Bambu, and rightfully so, but for home users where the crowd needing pleasing is not super tech-savvy, Bambu is just a great alternative.

I think we need to stop looking at it as Bambu fucking up 3D printing. They are massively increasing the reach of FDM for people who just want stuff to work without putting in the hours, while the rest of us can keep using whatever we want, be it OSS or not.
Hopefully with the increase in users, the selection of filaments and third party upgrades will increase too.

They are the only reason I was ever allowed to have a 3D printer in the house, which has already opened her up to letting me get a RatRig in the future. You know, because two printers are obviously twice as fast as one (!)

80€ ish for symetric 750 mbit.

Norway is high cost, so I’m quite pleased with it.

Never played the game and probably never will, but I wanted to say this anyways: stay awesome!

It’s people like you, who do stuff out of passion and not monetary gain, that made the internet so great.