Purchasing card. It's a special credit card that companies give to employees to make purchases when they cannot issue a purchase order or it is otherwise more convenient to use a credit card for a transaction.

Not necessarily, there are plenty of people who argue in bad faith or refuse to accept logic in the first place. Failing to 'win' against someone like that doesn't indicate that my position is wrong since they weren't open to an actual debate in the first place.

If my opponent is debating in good faith and presents an argument that I cannot counter, then yes, I am generally willing to adjust my view.

You're good, I didn't take it as an attack. I totally understand where you're coming from, I used to manage a fleet of 12 ender 3 printers with varying degrees of modifications from the previous lab manager and hated every minute of it.

I'm not familiar with Creality's R&D program and cannot really speak to their efforts in that department. They could very well not be pursuing much R&D in addition to cutting QC and having nonexistent customer support, but I didn't want to make claims in an area I'm uninformed.

Costs can be cut in a variety of ways and each manufacturer has different approaches that affect their end product differently. The main areas that are affected by cost-cutting measures first would typically be quality control (QC), research & development (R&D), and customer support.

In contrast to Creality, some budget manufacturers skimp on R&D instead of QC. They do this by taking existing designs developed by the open-source community (e.g. RepRap, Voron, etc.) and finding cheaper ways to produce them, rather than designing new machines in-house. For example, the Sovol SV08 is pretty obviously a Voron v2 with some custom parts to make it visually distinct.

Creality machines are inexpensive for a reason- they use cheap components and have next to no quality control. As far as I'm aware, that's no better now than it was when they were peddling the first Ender 3s. It's entirely possible that your friend got lucky and you didn't in the quality lottery, it's just the way it goes sometimes.

Older Creality designs were great if you wanted a machine to tinker with. I would never recommend that brand for people who want a printer that just works, though.

I bought a CR6-SE from Creality several years ago for similar reasons to you. It had all the upgrades one would typically do to an Ender 3 and was supposed to be basically bulletproof. I don't think I ever got a successful print from it, and it's been relegated to paperweight duty until I finally get around to taking it apart for components.

He's mentioned in some videos that he lives in the Chicago area. It usually comes up when talking about electrical work in his home, since building code in Chicagoland generally requires all electrical runs in conduit.

If an insult is all it takes to change one's position on human rights and equality, they likely only held those beliefs because they were politically expedient rather than actually believing in those principles. That's not a true ally.

For a particularly recent example, I think Maphra's cover of Doomed by Bring Me The Horizon is fantastic.

Ive probably got more of a right to get and reserve it than you do.

Holy shit the entitlement is insane. Do you hear yourself? You've already purchased two and plan to get more while other people weren't able to get any. The reservation system is for people in that situation, not your greedy ass to get a third unit.

Should call them the goodlands

Fuck off scalper