What was that slogan? Loving it?

Americans whining about expensive dinosaur brown children juice. FTFY

“And then at some point, we’ll probably make deals.”

Fuck yeah! Donnie deals!

No. She’s never been the sharpest bulb.

How old are your printer, filament and slicer? Zits are common in adolescents.

And now serously, if you look closely at how inconsistent your lines are, I would definitely look into the extruder. Maybe you have power issues, that could account for both printers having the same problem. If you suspect it’s the slicer, simply install another one and try.

I live in a dry climate. I don’t bother with PLA, but I dry PETG. I printed some stuff from a roll of PETG that had been open longer than a year, and looking closely at the melted plastic coming out of the nozzle, there was noticeable bubbles and stringing during printing. Once dried, all went away. People who claim you don’t need to dry some filaments must not care much about quality.

I bought two RTX 3060 with 12 Gb each for a total of 24Gb VRAM. Sionce the cards are not top shelf anymore for gaming, they can be had used in the 200€ range, so my setup was 400€ over the cost of my existing PC. My PC, while not last gen was already pretty beefy, with a Ryzen 9 and 64 Gb RAM. I think 400€ to have a pretty good local AI setup is not bad at all.

This is a pretty good idea I hadn’t thought about. The whole wikipedia is about 37Gb.

If you run it with RAG (retrieval augmented generation), where the model includes web search, you get pretty decent results. I often include the phrase “search the web extensively for up to date information” in my prompts.

You don’t want to run these models in RAM. I started using them on an RTX 3060-12Gb VRAM, and quickly added another, for 24Gb RAM. I also have 64 Gb RAM. Now it works well. Not lightning fast, but quite useable. VRAM is the key.