Fun story about it. When I bought it I was selling games and was buying from a guy who had a tub full of Skylander figures and games.
Bought it for the price of the games, made a profit, kept the TV for myself since it was so much better than anything I had before. And I didn't know what to do with the skylanders. Apparently they had value since a family member was able to offload them all.
It works but has a leak somewhere. Without seeing where that leak is, clear tube or seeing the underside, I’m just guessing but it’s so slow it doesn’t matter.
Wider didn’t help as predicted in this thread.
Good for a stopgap, not good if you need to hold water for over 8 hours
The original is dead. But I do have another tub with another stopper in it (my apt is so luxurious), both tubs are now filled. I will be able to tell if they drained by the morning... hopefully.
The plug already lasted an hour so it's a win by my books already.
I avoided the PS4 for years until I was able to justify buying either it or the Xbone. When the Xbones only claim to fame (for me) was the Rare Replay collection and Sunset Overdrive, and the PS4 was Infamous Second Son and Uncharted 4 I waited. Eventually I was able to justify the PS4 with the addition Persona 5, Wipeout Omega Collection, Horizon Zero Dawn, Spiderman, and a way to play Ubisoft games without giving my PC Cancer Ubisoft Connect/UPlay.
But unlike the PS3 I don't like using it. It's more of a convenient means to play games cheaply since every game was about $10 by the time I bought into it. Even then I probably could justify to myself to upgrade to a PS5 by using my PS4 as collateral.
When looking at the generational shifts between console gens. The PlayStation 5 didn't fix any problems the industry was having. Especially when you compare the jump in quality between PS2/Xbox and PS3/360, where rendering individual fingers didn't bring the games performance to a halt. Or the PS3/360 to the PS4/Xbone, where the consoles were given a usable amount of RAM that the devs needed from 256/512 respectively to 8GB on both.
But other than a slight performance boost and the new GPU buzzword "Ray Tracing" slapped on these systems. They cost more than the older systems did, and don't offer any new experience which the previous gen systems do.
I am in the same boat for Apple, don't like their practices and the inability to install what I want like a web browser outside of Safari. But last year I got myself an iPad Pro for myself and it's been the best tablet experience I've had in terms of app, and support for a large screen device. If you are reading books, and streaming paid subscription services I've not seen an Android tablet which can compete.
Now with that said the locked in ecosystem, proprietary hardware, lack of headphone jack on newer tablets which totally has the space for one, does drive me up a wall, and I usually use my Android Phone (Poco X3 Pro with LineageOS installed) for everything else.
Now here is my goto for finding new phones/tablets. GSM Arena has a wonderful database which an easily searchable option, that helps me narrow down option based on specs. Won't tell me if it's any good but it's a nice starting point especially if you know what specs it needs to have.
From my experience, you want to buy a Flagship, or flagship spec deceive, hence the iPad suggestion. LTT Did a roundup a few years ago going over this very issue with their conclusion that an older flagship will still outperform a new device, and be cheaper to buy.
While you can get a fire tablet with Netflix, or an Old Samsung. The OS and software feels so slow that its hard to use compared to an iPad.
I have an old Samsung Galaxy Tab S5e and a current gen Amazon fire tablet. Out of the two I'd recommend getting an old Samsung tablet.
My advice would be a model or two newer than the Tab S5e though double check for headphone jacks as Samsung has a tendency to drop those on their "premium" tablets.
Another option is to see if you can install LineageOS as most of the lag comes from the bloat from Samsung and Amazon. Like Kindle Book recommendations and Samsung Game mode.
Now if I was to buy a tablet for my kid. It would be a 5/6th gen iPad, or a 3rd gen air. The 5th gen just stopped getting the newest iPadOS but is still supported while the 6th gen and air is on the latest OS. They all have a headphone jack, and if they are anything like my first gen mini, will have better performance than any cheap tablet you'll get from Amazon.
I like gyroid since it doesn't overlap itself on the same layer. So when a drippy filament is printing you don't get random lines in the infill that can break off
The first game I played was somewhere between those Disney Storybook Games on PC, and the Tonka games. And sitting on my Dad's lap playing Police Quest and Wolfenstein 3D Shareware. Eventually we got a PS1 with non-point and click games with Spyro the Dragon and I think Crash Bash and CRT. Can't remember which one we played first.
However with the Ender-3 S1 which had auto bed levelling and has a direct drive extruder. All for well under the price of a Prusa and Bambu Labs. It's a good first step.
A 3d printer is a tool, and in my opinion you should get a cheap tool before dropping good money on a proper one. That way you'll know if you need the 300mm bed, or direct drive extruder and silent stepper drivers, with an enclosure.
However when you are looking for a cheap printer, I'd try to get one with auto bed leveling, since all the good printers have one, and manual bed leveling suck with no reward at the end.
Ender3v2/3 is a good starting point. Lots of parts online, and YouTube tutorials and guides for how to get it to work. FlashForge is another.
When you wanna throw it out a window, Prusa is my goto, though BambuLabs is getting some clout from their marketing push. I have personal gripes about them, but so far they seem legit.
For the rugrats game. This one is a 3d platformer with some mini games. It mirrors actual episodes of the show. I believe there is also an Angelica game which is a mini games collection only.
I prefer Mickey Speedway USA.