When I said 3rd party I meant non mojang jars, not hosting providors

Not when compared to the third party servers. Not only do they run better but they give the option of using plugins or mods to further improve performance and enhance gameplay.

Weekly full backup, nightly incremental

The fdm isn’t for minis, I already have two and I was looking at something that could do multiple filaments. I mostly use them for printing scenery and random stuff for other people. It’s nice to have an fdm for quick and dirty stuff.

Minis are probably more than 80% of my use case

I was planning to get a bamboo, was saving up for it. Money will go to a resin printer from someone else now.

I use it to help with programming and writing. Not as a way to have something so it for me but as something that can show me how to do something I am stuck on or give me ideas when Im drawing a blank.

Kinda like an interactive rubber duck. Its solutions arent always right or accurate but it does help me get past things I struggle with.

I think we can agree that both methods would be effective

Clean water on demand