A big important question is do you want your hobby to be 3d printing or 3d printers? If it's 3d printing, save up and pay the premium for one of the more appliance-like ones that just works out of the box like the Bambu X1 Carbon. If it's 3d printers, the skies the limit because you'll probably end up replacing almost every part over time to upgrade/tweak everything
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I have a unique first name, but a common last name so I have the exact same pattern for my professional email address
I played it several large updates ago before there was a more robust tutorial system. I found it quite enjoyable to okay coop with friends, ramps up the engine building, along with a good measure of other player based chaos.
Cloudflare DNS Proxy sounds like exactly what you're looking for, where cloudflare acts as the DNS middleman and responds with their own IPs, while forwarding all traffic for the site(s) to your public IP space
In case you didn't know, your copy of Century: Eastern Wonders can be combined with Century: Spice Road and Century: A New World in any combination for a mix & match alternate game with some of the gameplay from each one integrated into it.
rclone to dropbox and opendrive for things I care about like photo backups and RAW backups, and an encrypted rclone volume to both for things that need to be backed up, but also kept secure, such as scans of my tax returns, mortgage paperwork, etc. I maintain this script for the actual rclone automation via cron