Shdwdrgn @ Shdwdrgn @mander.xyz

A person with way too many hobbies, but I still continue to learn new thing

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Naw, moving the goalposts is totally a Republican move. She changed her stance and "fell in line" with all the other politicians. I'm disappointed, but I can't say I'm surprised.

At that capacity, I'll cast another vote for SSD if at all possible, but you can certainly get small HDDs pretty cheap now.

If you want the easiest and cheapest way to add more drives, do a search for "sata port multiplier". These cards go for around $25US on Amazon or Ebay. They are NOT fast! It uses a single SATA port to run up to five drives, so all the drives split the bandwidth, but long ago I ran some of them for a few years without any problems. You simply run a sata and power cable from your motherboard to the card, then plug in your drives, it doesn't even require a slot on your motherboard.

Oh I agree that some people are willing to stand up to their principals. Unfortunately the US is a two-party system, and nobody in either of those parties appear to have a spine against Israel. In any other reality I would be all for shaming Harris for being pretty much the same thing, but in our particular hellscape I have to at least give her credit for saying something that nobody else (of those two parties) running for President has done. It's a very small step, but it's still a step in the right direction. Hopefully we get a chance to allow her to move the line even further.

We have her speech from March

Most discussions this week seem to indicate she won't deviate far from Biden's actions, although she is one of the few politicians who has so critically talked about Israel's genocide. Honestly I don't expect any politician to have the balls to speak too strongly against Israel, but even if she just stands firm on what she's said so far it would already be an improvement from current policy. However it's only been a couple days since the whole race changed, so I'm not sure she's released much of anything yet on what her position as Presidential candidate will be in any subject. Who knows, maybe nothing will change, or maybe we'll only see very slight changes.

My main issue for speaking out here is that OP and several others have been continuously posting articles to show the absolute worst of the Democratic candidates, while completely ignoring all the ways in which Trump has been the same or far worse. If you make a post that one candidate is bad for a list of reasons, without also pointing out that the other candidate is bad for doing exactly the same thing, then you are obviously just trolling for Trump and not trying to "provide unbiased information". What I'm trying to point out in my response above is that at least Harris has spoken against Israel and in favor of ending the genocide, while Trump's only statement on the issue has been that Israel needs to get in there and "finish the job".

Here's a couple quick discussions about Harris's current position on Gaza: https://time.com/7001874/kamala-harris-donald-trump-biden-gaza/ https://www.nbcnews.com/investigations/harris-may-willing-criticize-netanyahu-biden-rcna162954

And yep, a little more checking about refusing to meet with Netanyahu does actually come back to what happened this week. I thought I had seen something about a actual refusal earlier this Spring but I can't find it again so that was probably a mis-read on my part.

OK all those articles are 5+ years old, what have you got for current positions? Seems like Harris has been speaking out more often in support of Gaza and has even refused to meet with Netanyahu. Even back in March she was speaking critically of Israel.

Meanwhile Trump constantly waffles on the issue while refusing to actually make a choice. Of course he has a history of absolute support for Israel, and has told donors that if he's reelected he would completely crush all protests that support Palestinians.

So what exactly are you trying to do here? Point out that both candidates have shown support for Israel in the past? Call attention to Trump's continued recent support for Israel and stated position of stamping out domestic protests while taking away even more rights of US citizens? It seems pretty obvious to me that if you want anything at all to change around Gaza, there is only one candidate who has even shown compassion for their position this year.

China might want to have a word...

Maybe because we've been paying them a tax since the early 2000's to provide fiber broadband to the majority of Americans, which they have pocketed and refused to actually build any infrastructure to support this?

The second one with the blue arm is the style I was talking about. It changes the angle so the filament doesn't get pulled into the extruder at a right-angle. It will help for now, but there are other models that use a ball bearing for a spinning wheel that the filament rolls over. And if you really want to make it smooth, there are ball bearing rollers so the whole spool spins more freely. That's one of the things I love about this printer, there is such a range of mods you can print to make the whole machine better.

That works, just keep testing changes until you figure it out.

May be a stupid question, but are you hearing any clicking from the extruder while printing? If the brass gear gets clogged up it can start slipping. Or if there's not enough tension on the spring it might not push the filament through reliably. For that matter have you printed an arm to change the angle the filament feeds into the extruder (if you still have the spool in the stock position on top of the printer)? There are many better ways to handle that issue, but original setup causes a lot of friction and you'll actually see the filament cutting a groove into the extruder, and the arm is the easiest print to solve it. You pretty much want to check everything that might be causing the filament to drag or not allow it to feed smoothly into the head.

You should only need to see a few layers to tell if there's still a problem. No need to waste filament printing a complete failed piece.

Oh I should have mentioned in the previous post... if a cold-pull doesn't make any difference, have you checked the nozzle itself? It's a very tiny hole, easily damaged, so if the head smacked into anything it might have slightly crushed the tip (not something you would see by eye). You could also try clearing the nozzle with the long needle that came with the printer -- if it doesn't fit into the nozzle tip then it's almost certainly suffered some damage. Always keep a bag of spare nozzles on hand!

You'll want to google the exact steps for calibrating e-steps, but basically this is the setting that determines how many steps of the stepper motor are required to move the filament a given amount. You disconnect the bowden tube from the head, then push the filament through so a bit is exposed past the end of the tubing and mark exactly where the end of the tubing is on the filament. Now from your slicer you instruct the printer to extrude 100mm of filament, and very carefully measure how much actually comes out. If you have exactly 100mm then great, but typically you will find it off by a few mm (and in your case it's probably less than 100mm). It doesn't take much to cause a big problem. Any how-to page will show how you can read the current setting (I think it's 92 steps by default), and there are formulas which will calculate the new number you need to change that to.

So the idea here is that if the slicer thinks it should be outputting 100mm of filament, but it only pushes 95mm instead, you won't have enough filament to fill in the gaps. Setting the correct value on the printer will fix this, and then you can adjust more minor issues by changing the flow rate in the slicer. You will also note that different types or brands of filament extrude at slightly different rates, which is why your slicer may allow different profiles for the filament itself.

I'm not familiar with PrusaSlicer. Cura has always worked well for me, it's free, and it provides quite a lot of options for fine-tuning your prints. If you find that Prusa doesn't let you adjust the filament rate, give Cura a try.

The bottom two which are supposed to be completely solid aren't even filling in the caps themselves. You're not getting enough filament flowing through the nozzle. Are you using a 100% flow rate in your slicer? You might try printing at 110% with a one- or two-layer solid test to see how well it fills in.

If you have never calibrated your e-steps, you've probably been under-extruding and just never noticed the problem on previous prints. Always a good idea to check this if you haven't before. This might be solved by adjusting the flow rate, but it's better to properly calibrate your printer or you will still see problems in some areas.

Alternatively, you might have a partial clog in the nozzle. Try doing a cold-pull to remove anything that's in there and see if it clears up the problem. No changes in the slicer will resolve this, it's a mechanical problem.

It's probably also worthwhile to measure the filament with calipers to see how close to 1.75mm it actually is. If you previously had a spool that was slightly over, it might have been covering up the defects that would be more obvious when using a spool that is slightly under. This problem can be solved just by adjusting the flow rate in the slicer.

You said you have made changes to the temp and speed, but didn't say what settings you are using or have tried. Please post that info (along with anything that may have worked in the past) for reference. Also are you sure you got pure PLA, or is it a variant like PLA+?

"Wish I could retire without worrying if social security will be available next year". Continues to vote Republican...

So they're going to provide a list of the pirate's identities along with complete records of what filenames were downloaded, what percentage was completed, and proof that the labels actually own the contents of what was in those files (regardless of the actual filenames)... right? No? Yeah I didn't think so. How are the courts still entertaining these broad lawsuits that never seem to prove any wrongdoing? Oh this person torrented some perfectly legal files so you want the ISP to cut them off because "they might have downloaded a movie we didn't notice"?

Perhaps try reading the article? Or are you ok with people driving 63 in a 40mph zone? Seems like if your life is ruined from a justly deserved speeding ticket then maybe you need to re-evaluate your life.

Google originally made a name for themselves by building a global search engine on low cost, low powered desktop machines running in parallel, so it's surprising because they have gone from high-efficiency to power hogs.

I still drive my SUV beside all the Prius' on the road.

Call me crazy, but universities have libraries and labs with computers that any student can use to work on assignments.

Ah I think I missed that bit, or maybe I read it differently and missed the meaning. Anyway thanks for pointing it out.