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Before someone complains about my 3D printer brand choice, Yes I know Fuck Anycubic.
I did countless hours of research, and I know they're a scummy company, but at least they flirt with being Open-Source, and for my first printer, and it being multi colour at that price, it was either this or not buying one at all.
I hate being left wing sometimes
It's ok mate, the first printer experience I had was at university trying to coax a bricked Makerbot they had back into working... Not a fun time haha.
If you get into the hobby you won't stop at just a single printer, especially if you learn how to maintain and repair them. Then you'll be able to buy a cheap second hand one from a more open source company if that's something you want to do.
So that'd be the next thing to look into: how to maintain and repair your printer and what consumables, spare parts, and tools you need to do that.
If it's an open frame printer, have a look at building/buying an enclosure for it, perhaps with an active heating unit and carbon + HEPA filtered ventilation for the more noxious filaments.
Then after that some method of drying your filament. And either combined with or separate from the drying: air-tight storage for your filament.
Some stick glue (pritt-stick) will be useful, as will a bed scraper, an alternative to stick glue would be something like cat's vomit (a brand of a liquid glue for printer beds, there's a few alternative suppliers around)
Welcome to the hobby!
It's cool bud. We all know what life's like right now and finding enjoyment in anything is very hard whilst having principles.
I don't have much to add except maybe an enclosure for temperature/airflow management if you're gonna print temperature sensitive filaments.
I really hope the printer works out well for you, have fun.
Thank you, I appreciate it.