Yup, same here. Sometimes they wouldn’t bother to call, and would just take the package with them if I wouldn’t answer.

The K1 series has graphite bushings on the X axis which should be self lubricating and should not be greased.

Often there aren’t definitive answers, and drying never hurts;)

Tailscale, because it’s a peer-to-peer VPN based on WireGuard with very little setup and Cloudflare Tunnel for external access to HA

Some of the newer iPhones feature a LIDAR scanner and there are store apps that can use it to scan too

Whatever would support the combined max wattage of the devices you will connect to it. Ideally something that can handle 50-100% more power. You can control some UPSes via USB or network, so you can hook it up to that mini pc or Pi (why are they separate?) and run NUT on it. You could technically pause a print/shut down a computer/Pi if an outage is more than x seconds to reduce power usage and get through one that you otherwise couldn’t.

Or tell the courier to leave the package in whatever place I ask them to.

Have you tried drying it? Sometimes filament is not dried out of the box.

What about PCTG? Pretty much for anything that I’d need more strength than regular PETG I could go with PETG-CF or PCTG. The only thing that can force me to use ABS/ASA is the need for (more) temperature resistance.

That’s pretty hot for PLA