Those 14TB WD drives are workhorses. I run refurbished ones in my home server and have never had any issues. And they are significantly faster than the rest of my spinning rust drives.

Some manufacturers have lower failure rates overall. But yes, you do have to mind the specific model.

https://www.backblaze.com/blog/backblaze-drive-stats-for-q1-2024/

The only side I’m going to come down on is that a lot of the home assistant maintainer community have a serious attitude problem.

They want to outwardly act as if they want to build a user friendly home automation system for all. But there’s a lot of self important snark in the forums when devs cause problems and users complain. They still act as if they are building this software for free and if anyone doesn’t like how they are doing things they can sod off. But now they have a decent sized paid staff and a mission statement to make the software for every day users.

Their documentation also leaves a lot to be desired and they don’t seem to have any procedures in place for getting it updated before breaking changes.

I have tried them all, it’s Navidrome. It’s actually less resources for me to run 4 instances of Navidrome for my different users than it is to use any of the other servers that allow for separate user libraries. Just make sure you alter the folder scan interval, it’s stupidly frequent by default.

This guy does some good roundups of HACS components. https://youtube.com/@beardedtinker

The Year of Hell, full stop.

Just be sure they can print in the desired material. A part for a car is going to need to be resistant to heat and potentially UV in ways that the most common material, PLA, is not.

I have no formal IT education. But I grew up on computers when command line was how you got things done.

I switched to cloud flare because of the downtime duckdns has. Sometimes it can get really bad.

You can’t both push a bunch of extra material and print faster. Hotends have volumetric limits.

Just think of all the efficiencies.

Yeah I think her character is ridiculous in the books. She’s a contradiction, a strong skilled warrior who can survive in the harshest conditions. But also will roll over and accept whatever decision her partner makes for her with no complaints.

Honestly Chani is so much better in the movies. Her character makes zero sense in the first book. She’s a strong capable warrior but just follows Paul around like a puppy and accepts his every decision as if she has no choice or will of her own.

You can also increase bed temp and slow down the early layers. If those fail adhesive is the way to go. Definitely washing is the best first step though.

We know.

Don’t forget the ultimate Star Trek voice acting gig, Gargoyles.

I only brought it up because they brought up the soldering iron in their post. I could probably replace one of those surface mount drivers, but I also wouldn’t. Not when you can buy a whole board for $20usd.

I’m assuming this is a stock motherboard with motor drivers soldered directly to the board without daughter boards and sockets?

Without digging in deeper it sounds like your motor driver is dead. If it’s a stock board you need to replace the entire thing. If you don’t already own a soldering iron and multi-meter then we can skip past the fantasy that you could replace a surface mount stepper driver yourself.

Good news is replacement boards are very cheap. There are great replacement options from both Creality and BigTreeTech. I would go with one of the drop in options, BTT will have E3 in the name. If you’re feeling more adventurous and don’t mind putting in more time and effort you can get a non-drop in board that has sockets instead of hard wired stepper drivers. That would allow you to drop in a replacement driver if this happens again. However it’s going to take significantly more effort, especially on the software side, before you get your printer running again.

Also, my advice is if you’re going to own a complex hobby electronics device like an Ender 3 you need to own your own multi meter.

People would want to have a beer with me because I really like beer.