I flashed to mainline shortly after getting it. I didn’t have any issues with stock firmware, only swapped because if the cartographer.

If you don’t mind minor amounts of tinkering to get it good, it’s been great since switching to the Cartographer.

Terrible bed adhesive. Cleaned the bed multiple times. Tried with and without glue sticks. It had over 2mm of deviation.

Prints would always warp on the right side where the aux fan was blowing on them.

I had a K1 Max I got directly from Creality in October.

It would print ASA okay, but PETG and PLA failed like 75% of the time.

Switched to a Sovol SV08 with a cartographer and I can’t remember having a failed print since. I print almost exclusively in PETG now.

I have had a SV08 for a few weeks. Had a K1 Max for the same time period. I had 2 or two failed prints on the SV08 and about 3 dozen failed prints.

I returned the K1 Max (with huge struggles with support)

Previously I had a Labist ET4 that only worked for a out 5 prints total before giving up on it.

I will agree with your statement. If you are willing to put in a bit of research on YouTube and GITHUB and swap a few parts and spend a few hours you’ll have a hilarious large printer that just spits out almost anything you throw at it, besides ABS and ASA… For now…

Keepalived

I run multiple pinholes using keepalived. Then I only use one DNS in my DHCP server. Second pihole will seemlessly take over if the first one goes down whilst using the original DNS address.

Work quite well. I had to learn the hard way that only using a single pihole was just asking for my partner to be mad when it didn’t work / when I was doing server maintenance. Now I have multiple and they can all seemlessly take over if any my server nodes are down

How is your Plex install so big? My library is like 6x larger and my Plex install lives in a 24GB VM

The core technologies that UTDC (then Bombardier, now Alstom) took from this is still being used all over the world. The new Vancouver SkyTrain is still using Linear Induction Motors.