If you have issues with longevity you should focus on getting a new charger. Many chargeres over charge the batteries and completely ruins them. Do it once and they are ruined forever and they wont hold charge anymore. Take a look at lygte-info.dk (don’t worry the site is in English) where he reviews chargers. I can recommend many of the xtar chargeres.
Direct link for comparison of chargeres. https://lygte-info.dk/info/roundCellChargerIndex UK.html
People might not agree but a prusa mini is a great reliable beginner machine but sadly way over budget. If you can find a secondhand prusa mk3 or mini within your budget I’d recommend that. They are very repairable and reliable and god for high pression prints. The best thing about a prusa is the huge amount of guides and resources online where you can find help for absolutely everything should you have problems. There’s literally not a problem that has not already been described and solved on a prusa printer making it good for beginners. If you are going to make small high quality prints you should also buy a 0.25mm nozzle and you’d be amazed of how fine detail you can get (and long print time sadly, but no way around that)
This is amazing. Thanks for sharing
Besides what other people are mentioning it is also excellent to use docker if you want to run multiple instances for multiple printers. I currently run 3 printers on a single mini pc that is also running octofarm for having a single entry point for all my printers
Most definitely wet filament. Get a little dryer box/food dehydrator and it’ll all go away
Those are rookie numbers…