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It was Flashforge Adventurer 3, and was $600 AUD, this was all pre COVID.

I had a 20+ Yr old car with a key fob that had broken, so it would stay on a key ring and wouldn’t stay closed.

Wreckers wanted $700 for a new key fob case as I’d have to buy the whole second hand keyless entry system.

A small 3d printer cost $650.

I bought the printer, then designed and printed my own key fob case, including replacing the worn out rubber buttons with some harvested out of an old kitchen timer.

No one was ever impressed or interested with the whole thing, so I figured this meets the criteria for inclusion here…

My step kids have never known me without a beard. They saw a photo of me clean shaven from about a year before I met their mother, and my stepdaughter looked at me, then the photo and said “Ew… Gross… Never shave your beard…”

Gotta love the honesty!!!

(I just choose to remember how much my stepdaughter LOVES my beard!! 🤪)

Don’t stress. Chat with Prusa support online.

They are amazing, and will help you identity what part needs replacing.

As these are all available in kit form, you have possibly the best documented and most repairable printer in the world…

Oh, I totally get it… I’ve been in the same place many times (and I’m sure I will be again…)

I just have a policy of trying to support these things whenever I’m able to, otherwise I feel I’m not able to grumble when privacy respecting apps disappear from existence through lack of financial support…

For what it’s worth, I ended up choosing the obsidian sync service. While it goes against my “self host everything” mantra, I do also want to support software makers who make great products that respect peoples privacy. As such, I decided the $8/m investment was warranted.

My son in highschool uses Obsidian for all his school note taking, so he actually is able to use the same sync subscription… As each vault has separate keys, there’s no privacy issues between us…

My favourite part of this solution is it supports live update from multiple devices at once, so I have the vault open on phone, tablet, home laptop and work laptop simultaneously, and it just works…

Just thought it was worth sharing.