I was a developer at Oracle. We got handed down sales goals. ??? It was a running joke in our org that oracle is a sales company and we just scramble to make what they’re selling. When I left half our org had been laid off or left. Only got two raises in the 5 years I was there. Not worth.

Very fair, I’m concerned about it as well but got one anyways. One of the reasons I got p1s instead of the carbon was none of it’s real functionality is cloud based, I can leave it offline and print via sd card and not worry. To me, the convenience has been worth it, one of the biggest things holding me back from getting stuff done is having to fiddle with stuff multiplies the effort in my head and puts me off. Having it be so plug and play makes me so much happier because I can just do stuff. Not a fan of all the proprietary cloud stuff but here, for me, it’s worth it.

OP asked for an entry level printer. There’s good entry level options besides absolute bottom of the barrel creality ones, although those are also good enough to see if it’s a hobby you want to spend more money on. “Hey anyone have recommendations for a cheap car I can get? I just learned to drive.” “Buy a corvette!”

P1s is nowhere near entry level lol, it’s like $700

Any luck?

Check to make sure your carriages are tight to the rails, both for the extruder and for the gantry. On the ender 3 pro there’s 2 wheels on one side and one wheel on the other, the one wheel is attached via a hex shaft that’s off center and by spinning that you can tighten/loosen the wheel to the rail. Mine were loose and it was resulting in something similar to this

And how much more have you spent on upgrading it than it would have cost to get a prusa or built a voron lol

I seriously think that if you’re using a continue, at best it’s just a bit less clear way to structure something, and at worst the codes a kludged together nightmare. There’s definitely good uses for break, but if you think you need a continue you should take a step back and reevaluate what you’re writing.

The only time I’ve used break outside of switch statements is to break out of for each loops early, when I’m checking to see if at least one element in a collection meets a condition. I really don’t think there’s ever a good time to use continue, to be honest. And if you use a labeled break statement, that’s a problem.