Ive had an ender 3 pro for about 5 years. Setting it up was straight forward I just followed a YouTube video which had some tips to help make sure the frame was square.

Ive never used the included slicer. Only Cura which is pretty great.

It’s definitely not the fastest but it’s a great beginner 3d printer and there is no requirement to tinker with it. I just level the bed and print each time. No problems 5 years in. (I did have to replace the removable print bed top at one point but that was partly because I’d gouged it before I learned how to level it)

It’s an action vs a state of being.

I made sure he died is making sure that the action of dying was completed. In that sense it sounds like you contributed to them dying. E.g. a mobster telling his boss he made sure someone died.

I made sure he was dead, is confirming their state of being as dead. E.g. a professional would ensure someone was dead before they’re cremated.

There is a lot of nuance in there though. E.g. a mobster might also make sure someone was dead after e.g. shooting them. (But again it’s checking their state of being rather than ensuring their act of dying was complete. I.e. finishing them off)

I don’t think I really understood docker until I watched this video which takes you through building up a docker-like container system from scratch. It’s very understandable and easy to follow if you have a basic understanding of Linux operating systems. I recommend it to anyone I know working with docker:

https://youtu.be/8fi7uSYlOdc

Alternative Invidious link: https://yewtu.be/watch?v=8fi7uSYlOdc

Others have covered the topic of modern renderers and their shortcuts but if you wanted an exact replica I think films like this are rendered on large HPC clusters.

Looking at the Top500 stats for HPCs the average top500 cluster in 1995 was 1.1TFlops, and today that seems to be around 23.4PFlops.

An increase of approximate 21,000 times.

So 800,000 hours from 1995 is about 37 hours on today’s average top500 cluster.

Edit: I found a few unconfirmed calculations that Toy Story was rendered on 294 CPUs in SPARCstation 20s with a combined power of only 8GFlops. This would mean a render time of 325,000 CPU hours, 1,100 wall clock hours. So, No. 500 of the top500 has the theoretical raw power to render toy story in about 15mins. You’d only need around 7Tflops to render it in it’s 75min runtime.

Still we’re talking multimillion dollar HPC clusters here, not your home rig if you want to render exactly the same thing in the same way.

If you could update the renderer to support modern GPU hardware then it seems like you would have enough power to achieve similar realtime rendering.