That's not surprising. The amount of technologies that have come out recently that use up huge amounts of power are fucking us over. Especially Bitcoin and AI.

You realize your taxes pay for collection too. So you either pay a private company or you pay the government.

Yeah I've heard from a few people they pay less for auto insurance in Alberta vs BC. But there are many options for insurance that will effect your rates so unless they are comparing the exact same plan it's hard to compare.

I suspect it's a mix of private insurance and all the large pick-ups used in the oil and gas industry. It probably spreads to all the other drivers a little. There are a lot of contractors with big expensive truck sitting at around $100,000 in value putting around oil and gas country.

Which episode is that? I must've missed it.

This is probably a pretty bad time economically too. A lot of companies are cutting costs.

I like Overture PLA. I bought a bunch when they went on sale. I've started ordering from Filaments.ca to support a canadian business. Their Econofil line works well too.

That's how prints look on the bottoms when they have supports under them.

There's a video on this that might help you. https://youtu.be/wgXlyyJeY8I?feature=shared

What did filament did you print it with?

I bought from them knowing about the cloud service. These printers are fine for one off purchases, but I would never buy one if I were to set up a print farm. The parts are all reasonably priced, just don't know how long that will last or they may discontinue the model and stop selling parts for it.

Yes

I saw this video from Uncle Jessie's recently. Only just got in to 3d printing myself so I haven't tried it but others here have mentioned it and video speaks for itself.

https://youtu.be/bZOORQ1Oj2A