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Bluewing

@ Bluewing @lemmy.world

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  • Remember to dry your filament kids

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  • I see a bit of under extrusion and retraction and wipe issues and possibly even coasting issues.

    Remember Kiddies: Unless you are printing some of the fancy engineering filaments or you live in a rain forest, it's not always "the filament is wet." Let the filament tell you it needs to be dried. If your printer needs to have PLA and to a lessor extent PETG dried to within an inch of it's life every time to get a good clean print, then your printer calibration probably sucks. Do some filament calibration tests and get your printer right first.

    But that takes learning and effort.

  • Remember to dry your filament kids

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  • You can also go full caveman and setup magic markers to "paint" a single color filament as it passes by heading into the extruder. I did that a time or two back in the day before multi color filaments and it works OK.

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  • I'm a firm believer in every man is entitled to his own personal hell. And if Windows 11 is your choice, then go with my blessing.

    Just don't expect me to help put out the flames.

  • Steam data reveals PC gamers shifting from Windows to Linux

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  • That's a valid way too. It's just that a lot of people aren't really ready to dive in with both feet from the start. No matter how easy Linux has become or we might think its is. Change is scary and hard. And I think that's a problem that holds back many people yet today.

  • Calibrating my E-steps ended up giving me nearly pixel-perfect prints (Creality K1)

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  • Yeah, checking your e-steps is important for many printer brands and models as you found out. But if you want the best in calibration for your printer, use. If you follow the steps correctly and in order, you will get as close to perfect as you can get. And the reading in each step tells you the why.

  • Steam data reveals PC gamers shifting from Windows to Linux

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  • That possible for sure. But I don't see dual booting being as common as it once was. Owning an old spare computer is pretty common these days. Heck, you can even get a dirt cheap mini desktop off of amazon and a referb/used/spare monitor and have a completely fine old time messing around with different distros without a care in the world. And that's a far easier entry into Linux than dual booting anymore.

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  • The few photos I've seen showed unarmed Guardsmen. The national guard isn't automatically issued weapons and live ammo when called out.

    Pretty hard to have an itchy trigger finger when you don't have a rifle or ammo.

  • LibreOffice is right about Microsoft, and it matters more than you think.

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  • I'mma just going to sit over here in the corner with my AbbiWord and Gnumeric.........

  • Steam data reveals PC gamers shifting from Windows to Linux

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  • It's good to see people making a switch to Linux. But the real tell will be in finding out how many of those people actually stick long term.

  • Polypropylene as a filament - lost in tech

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  • The recycling part is probably the cause of your problems. I would expect that virgin PP to behave differently.

  • Vintage

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  • Anybody else here play Oregon Trail on a teletype terminal? The school had 2 terminals in a small basement room that a few of us nerds could get access to for and hour or two a week, We would try to learn Basic, (with no one to teach us), and play Oregon Trail and get yelled at for going through some much thermal paper.......

  • Vintage

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  • Me too. As a toolmaker and engineer, space mice were a thing. But they were stupidly expensive and still are. I was unwilling to spend the money for one. So I use a ball mouse and I still do for when I need to do serious CAD work these days-- designing my next model steam engine.

  • Popup Ads in Your Pickup Truck? RAM Trucks Now Feature Scammy Ads on the Center Display

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  • Order a Slate pickup. Buy what you want and only what you want. And add things later as you want or buy that tablet from amazon and a bluetooth speaker and install it yourself.

  • Popup Ads in Your Pickup Truck? RAM Trucks Now Feature Scammy Ads on the Center Display

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  • I think the issues is that you can't pick and choose exactly what you want in your new vehicle. You can't say, get just a simple AM/FM radio and get bluetooth. You buy a package of accessories.

    So if you want just that simple radio, not only don't you get the bluetooth, but you have to give up the power seats and windows too. It's an all or nothing choice.

    There was a time you would order your new car with individual accessories and then a couple of months to get it. I'm pulling for Slate to be successful and bring that freedom of choice back.

  • Slicer software for a Linux system?

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  • OK, I've heard conflicting reports if it was moribund or active. Always an issue with one man shows.

  • Everyone's Dream

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  • Best I can say is if medical care is an important need for you, then you will need to look at the Minneapolis/St Paul metro area. Rural areas lack much of the health care you might need. As a retired medic that worked in rural areas, I'm not lying when I say if I were to have a heart attack at home, I'm probably very dead before help can arrive.

    While Minnesota shows as a mostly blue state, that is because we have one large metropolitan area that dominates the rest of the state. And outside of that metro region, the rural 80% of the state skews from purple to red.

    Otherwise, plan on long cold winters that can grind some people mentally and what to us is warm and very humid summers. We are an outdoors people that enjoy the 3 months of summer and spend as much of our time outdoors as possible. Preferably on a lake in a boat, we own a LOT of boats. Even in winter we find snowmobiling, skiing, and ice fishing as popular hobbies. We are all about the outdoors for sure.

    As far as the denizens of the state go, we are Minnesota Nicetm to everyone, but as individuals we are mostly stoic and often wary of outsiders. And the farther you get from the cites, the more that becomes apparent. So it can be difficult to build friendships. You can live in a town for 20 years years and still be considered the "new people". Or you can be accepted and welcomed immediately. YMMV for sure.

    If you decide to move here, I wish you luck. As a whole, we are a good and helpful place to live. But there can be bumps on the road of life here also.

  • This is not the US constitution; it used to be, but Article I, part of section 8, & all of sections 9 & 10 have been removed

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  • Nor will we create a better society if we let tyrants rule either. For most people, the choice is about how you choose to die-- kneeling in front of the pit you just dug or on your feet and fighting for something that might not be much better.

    But no matter which you choose, you will probably die.

  • A Speed Loader For Your 3D Printer Filament

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  • Another answer to question that no one asked......

  • Slicer software for a Linux system?

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  • Is there any new work being done on SuperSlicer? Or is it orphaned yet.