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  • I gave up both, problem solved lol

  • Seconding the new batteries! That's my major one.

  • Not so far, but I haven't mastered the song yet either 😝

  • Whoaaa that's brilliant! Was it good?

  • No prob! None whatsoever, as far I can tell

  • Absolutely! It can be a teeny bit finicky compared ol' reliable PLA, but I think it's pretty worth it. The only real issue is that wide flat parts have a tendency to warp off the build plate? Here's what I've figured out so far about making it adhere extra well:

    • Bed temp turned completely off!
    • Use a fresh layer of a really good 3d printing adhesive. (If your adhesive is heat activated, 35C should be enough to activate without messing with the PHA)
    • If you have an enclosure, open it up as much as possible. I noticed I have a lot more warping in my enclosed printer than my unenclosed one.
    • Between the handful of 100% pure PHA brands that I'm aware of existing, one says full fan as early as possible and another says no fan at all unless you're doing lots of bridging/overhangs, so try out a few different fan settings.
    • Put a big giant brim on it. Maybe even try one made out of a different material than the object itself, if you've got dual extrusion.
    • The higher the infill percentage and the more solid bottom layers there are, the more it will warp. So avoid that where possible.
    • Most slicers probably already print the first layer at a chunkier line width than the nozzle size, but feel free to jack up the line width even more.
    • Set the first layer pattern to concentric or Hilbert curve, evens out the distribution of forces that cause warping.
    • Finally, if all else fails... Rotate the object until it's sitting on a really impractical edge, then print it in sort of a "cradle" of support material. I use BVOH or PVA. Basically make as little of it touch the build plate as possible? I don't like this option because it requires dual extrusion and is pretty wasteful.

    There, that's everything I know so far. This probably makes the warping sound a lot worse than it is. It's really not super terrible. You probably won't have to barely ever use any of these tips, and if you can get past the warping, every other aspect of printing with PHA works like a dream.

  • I'm a rank amateur at playing them really. It sounds good but is definitely a bit out of tune. Luckily with vessel flutes in general, you can just adjust the size of the holes to bring it back in tune again! In fact the designer of this one in particular lists 2 files, one with holes and one without. They recommend making your own holes, which is the better way to tune it, since it's easier to make a hole bigger than to make it smaller. Nevertheless, you can still make the holes smaller via successive layers of varnish/lacquer/etc.

  • I have migraines a lot like that too. My doctor won't help with them so I've never tried prescription stuff for it, but otherwise, all the stuff people have suggested has helped me. I also have one other thing that sounds like totalll woo-woo "The Secret" style nonsense, but helps for some reason. I imagine my migraine as a jumble of tangled knots, and imagine very gently untangling them. It's tricky because focusing too hard on it (or on anything really) just makes the migraine worse. I have to kind of do it in the lowest effort way possible. But when it works, it really really works! Almost immediately. My hypothesis is that what I'm actually doing is untensing a bunch of tense muscles in my face/neck/temples/etc that I don't seem to have much conscious control over.

  • Seconded the programming.dev instance! They've got communities for like every kind of programming, I'm moderating a Haxe community there. Right now it's quiet enough that I think you'd be better off sending more traffic that way than making a new community on Beehaw, but I could be wrong.

  • Yes absolutely. Kate Bush's "Running Up That Hill" is from the perspective of a girl trying to talk her boyfriend into pegging.

    "It doesn't hurt me (yeah, yeah, yo) Do you wanna feel how it feels? (Yeah, yeah, yo) Do you wanna know, know that it doesn't hurt me? (Yeah, yeah, yo) Do you wanna hear about the deal that I'm making? (Yeah, yeah, yo) You It's you and me And if I only could I'd make a deal with God And I'd get Him to swap our places"

    Before anyone asks, I know that barely makes any sense, and that the rest of the lyrics don't fit with this interpretation AT ALL, but that's why it's a headcannon 😅

  • rule

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  • I'm like a 3 or 4 at best usually, but because I just saw this meme, I get the specific picture of an apple from 1 instead. Once that fades I'll be back to 3 or 4 again.

  • That is definitely true, but this is also definitely Breezewood Pennsylvania lol

  • I actually live like a couple hours from this real place in the pic, it's very surreal.

  • Even coming from different worlds, worlds at war with each other, couldn't keep these two apart. It's so beautiful 😭

  • Not that I've noticed, but maybe the difference is subtle. I should try for a comparison someday! We're not using gas for any particular reason though, it's just what the apartment came with and we wouldn't have the authority to change it anyway

  • That must be the problem I bet! I didn't buy the thing though lol

  • Unless your under counter oven is gas... like mine is.

  • The air fryer 💀

    A housemate owns one and I hate it. It pulls such an irresponsible amount of juice you gotta turn a bunch of other stuff off or it trips the circuit breaker. And literally the ONLY thing it actually cooks very well is french fries.