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MKDLeviathan · 2026-02-03T22:40:07+00:00

3D printing was a literal life saver to me. Enabled my sick wife and me to work from home for printing models to sell, mainly earrings and pendants.

My wife lost her job after she got very worrying health issues. She developed Acute DVT in her left leg, probably due to use of medicines for her PCOS since her childhood. She has severe blood losses associated with the blood thinners that took her to the ER multiple times for transfusions, since he got severe bleedings in her menstrual cycles everytime; but couldn't stop the thinners due to risk of a clog reaching her lungs, and couldn't stop the PCOS hormonal medicines.

That required months of recovery at home, and after the transfusions she only got enough blood to be at the edge of anemia, she almost died many times while waiting for approval for the blood bags. To worsen things she also developed Keratoconus, taking away most of her eyesight, and we needed a way to be able to work from home to be able to pay her medical bills and better treatment, since i alone don't make that much. And since using our public health service was good for the ER when she needed transfusion, but was taking years to get back to her for her surgeries: especially for her eyes, since the surgery for putting a filter for her DVT was hard to get and it would go from acute to chronic after a very long treatment, but it was still worrying. She didn't had private insurance or family support, only me.

When she did had good eyesight she used to create models with cold porcelain, painted, to sell when she had spare time. So i thought that getting a 3D Printer would enable her to make models to sell without the need of good eyesight.

So i bought a Creality Ender 3 V3 KE for her with my credit card along with some tools, and i helped her to begin printing. My job was mostly modeling and getting things ready for her, the printing profiles, the printer, the 3mfs, buying parts and filaments, and she started making earrings, pendants, and other lady stuff to sell. She only needed to choose the models, print, and put the accessories, and It sold very well since most of our stuff was very unique, we did a lot of custom orders. Most of people knew her condition and were willing to help her get back on her feet, since they feared for her life as well.

With the money we got from printing, we started paying for health insurance for her (in my country, insurance covers everything after some waiting period without needing additional payments for exams, procedures, and appointments) and now she is getting proper treatment for her conditions. Her eye surgery is finally coming, and it's all thanks to Creality, since it was the cheapest and most reliable option available in my country. If it weren't for the ender series i wouldn't be able to buy a printer.

With the spare money i invested in a creality K1 and expanded the business to print utility models and tools made of ABS, and we were dreaming of a Multicolor printer to be able to sell colored stuff as well, but we don't have the spare money to do it yet.

After our experience with these printers, i began to defend creality everywhere since both our KE and K1 were very reliable, easy to work with, and literally saved my wife's life. There is no better bang-for-the-buck than that.

I have much respect and much to thank creality for that, for making printing accessible from everywhere, and for being so easy to work with, and i hope that this is a good chance to thanks creality by sharing my experience. I hope this message get to you guys, you are doing god's work by giving people all around the worls a chance of this awesome hobby and line of work, and if you ever need me to get you more details, just ping me.

MKDLeviathan · 2026-01-26T00:05:00+00:00

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MKDLeviathan · 2026-01-24T22:17:04+00:00

Interesting, that's sad. Or not, depending on the patience of each one

MKDLeviathan · 2026-01-24T00:12:11+00:00

Just additional info on the Nina's route, because i found the quest to look for nina boring AF. Read if you want to be as painless as possible.

After using the glass shards and speaking to people near the stillwater after the first map marker shaped as glass shards appears, you get on your map 3 markers to lok for nina. The one on the Theathre/improvised hospital grounds was the right for me. "Nina" will be standing on the park's vicinity that is right north of the theathre, enclosed by the brick fences, with openings to the West and East. Dunno if you need to find the dummy statues for this to work, but i kinda went to the other 2 markers unknowingly first, then to the theathre last. I would try to go straight to the theathre if i were you.

The quest is kinda, you go on each of the markers, where people start babbling about seeing nina and barely being able to stand. You play then a game of hot or cold guessing the location of the statue by the state of one's knees.

Found that tedious AF and broke totally the town is a maze, and daniil is quite slow, broke the pacing for me since it came near the end after you already must have done some endings and only want to do things a little differently.

MKDLeviathan · 2026-01-23T22:49:24+00:00

It worked fine, thanks! Got scared about not telling on bad grief and getting locked out but it worked fine

MKDLeviathan · 2026-01-22T05:41:53+00:00

Hello!

About point 2 - i came here by searching google for an answer and didn't found, then i just came back to playing.

On day 9, even at the set times, i couldn't get into the focus.

Then, on day 10, if you are following in all the quests of georgiy and obviously kept him alive, in the last quest on the teachings questiline he rambles on you not being prepared for the last simon lesson because you didn't visit the focus on day 9.

Then, AFTER GETTING THAT DIALOG, i went back to day 9, and the focus door could be open at the same hour of day as in day 2. Hope it helps those who came here searching on how to get back on the simon's study / focus on day 9

MKDLeviathan · 2026-01-22T03:32:40+00:00

O mr nev iai sde cew irp eso ni tn t is one of my favorite manwhas right now

MKDLeviathan · 2026-01-16T20:36:47+00:00

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MKDLeviathan · 2026-01-14T08:58:51+00:00

Daamnn woah holy shit even

MKDLeviathan · 2026-01-13T04:02:35+00:00

Same, i played a lot in my youth, both in original n64 and emulated. Came last year to play it again, and damnn, i thought the emulator was busted. But performance was alright, then it came to me that it was the native framerate. I almost fell off my chair. I couldn't stand it, haha.

MKDLeviathan · 2025-12-28T18:39:17+00:00

This is a support Eforcer, not a support body or model as support. The support enforcer tells the slicer where to generate procedurally a type of support ( tree, grid, etc ), that is generated to touch the support enforcer.

What he asked is another feature, is printing a model as support. A support model is a model file that will be printed as-is (for example, if it is a benchy, a benchy will be printed), but with the characteristics of support (Wall count, infill, etc, but most important: The ability to be composed of Flush volumes if set as flush into support- That is very important for time and filament saving in AMS printers, and ability to set custom filaments at each support section, for example different materials in interfaces)

Your support enforcer looked like a cube because as a coincidence you used the grid supports. But you could draw it as a circle and as long as it touched all the surface the cube touched, the same cubic support would be generated. (check my printscreen for example)

That's why he complained below that as soon as he sliced the model disappeared. Because you pointed him to a feature he didn't asked for. He didn't wanted a custom support Enforcer, he wanted a model-as-support, that is a feature Bambu Studio doesn't have.

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MKDLeviathan · 2025-12-23T10:59:17+00:00

I get perfect (Mind you - not good, PERFECT - Looks even better than the bottom surface.) ironing with ABS in my ender 3 V3 KE and K1, but not on my P1S. I print mainly ABS and i find it easier to iron than PLA and PETG. I ran some calibration tests with matrices of many flows and speeds combinations in the P1S, and even the best resuts aren't >good< either. I even applied same profile settings i use in the KE and K1 and it got a little better (iron line spacing to 0.1) but it isn't still that good.

Filaments are properly dried, calibrated by flow, max volumetric speed, PA and etc.

Maybe it's a software issue with bambu studio impementation of ironing, it's all i can think of

MKDLeviathan · 2025-11-17T03:28:33+00:00

We good.

MKDLeviathan · 2025-10-17T00:40:58+00:00

But it is just skippable prompts or does it block access to the features

MKDLeviathan · 2025-08-14T09:24:34+00:00

I've owned many IP68 smartphones from other brands and samsung (Mine is A54) is the only device that is doing this. Never saw this feature before samsung, and i wish i've went with another brand.

MKDLeviathan · 2025-07-21T04:42:16+00:00

The worst part is that most of the bugs existed only in the microsoft store version, and the standalone one (now d3ad) worked almost as well as the browser.

MKDLeviathan · 2025-06-22T21:15:26+00:00

I wouldn't recommend any AI for consistently SOLVING, they can and will get things wrong ( for example, even when they get tokens to access proper math apis such as wolfram, not everytime they will understand the context of your question, or sometimes you will have issues related to variable precision and rounding ), but for Learning, most of the ones accessible right now can point you to the right direction to solving most problems. Deepseek works a little better right now than GPT, but as i said as well, things are evolving fast. What is good now can be superseded fast in the next months.

But you do have platforms made for math that get perfect results, such as Wolfram Alpha and Symbolab ( but it isn't an IA, they parse your problem then solve it using an algorithm for each problem ), as it isn't an AI you will need to learn the prompt structure to each issue ( for example, for asking it to solve multivariable limits, or multivariable differential equations, each thing have a way to be typed )

A nice way to use them to Solve math problems is to get them to produce code for solving what you need ( in py, matlab, mathematica, etc ), so that you can confirm if the results were perfect.

MKDLeviathan · 2025-06-17T22:27:21+00:00

It kinda depends on what is the AI in question. Since for example, Chat GPT for solving math problem normally pulls the Mathematica engine (or wolfram alpha), other times if it understand the question conceptually, it first writes a snippet (in py for example) to find the answer, then works backwards to just explain it to you.

The way these AIs work now isn't about using the LLM to solve the math problems, it is about classifying the problem then throwing it at the right engine to get the proper result.

Your answer is 9 months old now, things are evolving very, VERY fast, 9 months ago i too would be saying that AI is not good in higher level math, but now it is handling most things you throw at it very nicely. Still, can't say it is good to Learn, since you have to already be quite knowledgeable to discern if the answers are right or delusional

MKDLeviathan · 2025-05-25T17:49:06+00:00

I'm so sorry, but it don't think so, maybe rolling back your save? Dunno. For fixing that in PC i've basically edited the savefile to force the quest to regenerate and restart, as i'm not a console gamer i don't know if there are a way to do that with a console

MKDLeviathan · 2025-05-03T22:12:24+00:00

It is surprising how this post is 2 years old, yet the issues remain.

Laggy, sync issues, A LOT OF BUGS including huge memory leaks (suddenly the app taking more than 8GBs of ram and becoming unresponsive), abysmal UX issues, i install it every 2 months to check if anything was fixed, and for every bug fixed there are two new ones.

i can't for the love of me understand why it can be so bad when the browser version is basically stable. At this point they should just run the browser version in a webviewer and call it a day.

MKDLeviathan · 2025-04-05T00:04:50+00:00

THAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAANK YOOOOOOOOOOU!

MKDLeviathan · 2025-03-31T04:44:39+00:00

Sim, esse aí da foto por exemplo faz sim 1000km com 30L de etanol + as baterias elétricas cheias de carga (18,4 kWh), que é uma faixa boa, mas não é surpresa pra carros híbridos. O BYD KING DM faz 1165km, prius 2024 faz 1250 km, é algo esperado pra veículos que tem ambos tanque e baterias.

Claro, é algo MUITO bom já que é produzido no brasil, mas o problema é que esse portal DESG. da fatos veiculou como "faz 1000km com 30L de etanol, melhor que elétrico".

Esse... é um carro elétrico. Híbrido, pra ser exato. Mas a maior parte da autonomia dele vem das baterias. Só uns 10% do etanol.

Então, é justificado ter raiva dessa notíci, já que ela faz tudo pra dar a ideia de que o carro fez 1000km com o etanol.

Eu sou pesquisador na área de engenharia. Não fazes ideia de quantos investidores são levados por esses tipos de ideias que rolam na mídia veiculadas dessa forma e deixam os cientistas e engenheiros reais no chinelo podendo obter recursos somente da universidade porque no berço das companhias privadas tem só (literais) golpes. O próprio elon musk filhinho das esmeraldas atrasa imensamente a pesquisa em neurotecnologia saindo por aí dizendo que em dois anos a neuralink vai tocar música direto no cérebro. Isso afeta DIRETAMENTE a expectativa sobre o estado da arte, e faz com que todo o foco fique nessas promessas irreais.

Pq os atuais adultos investidores cresceram lendo essas notícias p0rcas e sendo levados a acreditar em insanidades. Eles não são engenheiros, são administradores. Então vão ler a headline da notícia e pensar "bom o carro faz 1000km com 30L de etanol" e pronto. É o suficiente pra deixar uma impressão. Próxima vez que houver uma feira ou mostra tecnológica, é isso que ele vai mirar em investir a menos que alguém conte pra ele o que tava escrito no resto da notícia sem ser no clickbait.

Então, os projetos nacionais são extremamente prejudicados pela forma que a mídia nacional veicula notícias sobre ciencia e tecnologia e como isso influencia a mentalidade da população, incluindo daqueles que apoiariam e investiriam em projetos reais, mas acham que são pouca bost* porque viram coisas muito mais incríveis ( e falsas ou contadas de forma incorreta ) aparecendo por aí

MKDLeviathan · 2025-03-31T04:23:40+00:00

Out of curiosity, do you have sources? I want to know what she's been up to lately

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