I have tried nearly everything. Chili powder or black pepper only works until the next dew.
I tried a special spray, it's useless.
The only thing that worked for me to cover the whole garden was special grains made of wood and black pepper oil. You can throw it around the garden and it last one or two weeks.
For raised planter bed, I put nets originally used to cover trees for birds not to eat the fruits. It can be cut to any size and cats don't like to walk on it. Some issues :
it's fragile. You need to replace it after one or two years.
plants go through the net. It's hard to remove then.
once there was a tiny bird in it. I found it soon enough for it not to starve.
"When the Reddit admins figured out that a large portion of the site is now bots"
In foreign languages like in French, there was a trend, launched by the admins themselves. It was to replicate English communities by translating the posts. It was obvious that it was dumb automated translations since there were cultural references that could not be translated. I know it because I was the owner of such a community and it was sad. My small community had a spirit. After the bots, the community was bland.
Another question related to your answer : how can I guarantee that the content I create (comments) are available for scraping ?
The issue I have with Reddit and all is that we can't freely access to the content, especially the past content. I don't want instances to be sold in like 10 years, compromising access to old content (or with advertising in them). I would like to be able to replicate one rogue instance into a new free instance.
Auto calibration of Z-offset (multi-points). Your bed will warp with time and you don't want to fight with it.
PEI magnetic bed. You don't want to fight with your things not sticking to the bed - or sticking too much. You may still have issues but less.
You will be happy with this as a cheap starter printer around 200$.
After some time, you may want to print bigger things, faster, and with ABS/ASA for technical parts. Then you could invest in a bigger printer, faster, hot and with an enclosure for ABS fumes and warping issues. The budget for this is 600-1000$.
Do you use glue or hairspray for ASA ? I could not manage warping without hairspray.
It looks like your corners separate from the border. I have this issue du to the new "smart" borders from Cura. It turns in the other direction for this to be easily removed... I have disabled this feature.
The last idea if everything fails : I had to change the geometry of the thing to prevent big long fat stripes like the bottom of your item. Making it an hexagonal grid may help to diffuse the forces. The shrinkage will be diffuse instead of along the stripe.
I have printed ABS things that I use for scuba diving and freediving. It's like 4 years since I first printed them and they have been hours and hours in the sea.
ABS is great ... but then I bought some ASA. It's even greater since it's UV proof.
ABS is hard to print due to retractation. I have to use glue. I have less issue with ASA, it's easy to print, I don't know if it's due to the different brands.
ABS and ASA are making nasty fumes when printing. Be careful.
Finally, the last advice is to get one nozzle dedicated for ABS/ASA. The issue is that it needs to be printed at high temperature. Way higher than PLA. If you try to change the filament, the nozzle is either too cold to melt and purge ABS/ASA properly, or too hot and the PLA will be carbonized inside the nozzle. The nozzle will be clogged one way or the other. The solution is to dedicate one nozzle for PLA/PETG and one for ASA/ABS. It can be painfull to recalibrate the Z-offset on older printers.
Also, when the story is great and not too long, I like not to run. Two examples are Firewatch and Portal 2. I take my time because I don't want them to finish them fast. It's like keeping a lotery ticket without checking if you won.
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