Garage ain't good for printer, cold and humidity don't mix well with 3d printing, your clogging could also come from the warp issue as print goes up, nozzle dive into printing area, it's not able to extrude properly so melting plastic goes up and you get a clog.
I don't have this printer and those issues can come from different problems so hard to tell like this.
Warping may cause layer issues as seen on pictures, stabilising bed temperature could help using an enclosure or maybe by putting your printer elsewhere, especially if it's close to a colder spot in your house.
If the layer issues we see on that picture still there when there is no warping, then reduce speed as it goes up. Tall print will tend to wobble more, which can make nozzle hit print, also nozzle path will not be as accurate after some traveling which can end up with similar layer issues.
About your clogging issue, what temp (bed and nozzle) do you use for pla?
If you keep a low infill, top/bottom layers will be rapidly more efficient but will cost more time and material than infill. The amount of wall is also to take into account. Few years back, I remember a test video showing that wall number were actually more efficient than infill. But depending how the test is being done, this might change.
It is mostly targeting french content (RD is a french company), so most user may have not see a big change. For french, RD has become muche less attractive because RD has banned biggest french torrent site and 1fichier files are scanned, if file matches hash content from movies/series it will blocked download.
Not the answer you are waiting but there is something wrong with your shield, I have a 2015 and 2019 Shield and both are just very good even if the first one has nearly 10 years
I don't use orca, but you may have a setting to reduce retraction in infill. This is for reducing printing time. You can disable it (if there is this setting)
Not sure I'm taking about the same thing but what I've seen is people printing a couple of layers out of pla then switching to other material to avoid having to mess with glue or else. This is to avoid bounding with plate as it can happen with petg or other material. But in no case I've seen people printing entire build area, usually the same size as print + a bit of extra to pull off that pla layer
Pla and Petg are fine but as already talked, they are other things to take in consideration. Best thing you can do is to apply a coating of food safe epoxy.
You can use a slicer feature which will pause at some specific layer, if you have a dedicated app on your phone, it will notify you that printer has been paused.
It's either over extruding or a bed level issue. First level bed again and if it still happening calibrate your extrusion flow. Since you had adhesion issue, probably just bed leveling will solve issue. If bed is well leveled and still have adhesion issue, clean your bed with basic soap and hot water (and avoid touching bed with your hand as much as possible)
Don't know where you heard that but micro Swiss hotend has been really popular until dragon hotend came out. I'm not saying it is better than dragon but was known to work great. About prices, it might depend where you live as I just checked right now and dragon is more expensive than micro Swiss.
Don't know which printer you have but if your main interest is a direct drive setup over Bowden, chances are that you can setup your orbiter 1.5 as direct drive by printing some adapter.
Garage ain't good for printer, cold and humidity don't mix well with 3d printing, your clogging could also come from the warp issue as print goes up, nozzle dive into printing area, it's not able to extrude properly so melting plastic goes up and you get a clog.
Ringing is an artifact, which can be cause by speed, belt not tightened correctly, frame assembly. If everything seems to be correct, then you might look to see if your printer supports other firmware (some of them can help to reduce/eliminate it) https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0245/5519/2380/files/3d-print-ghosting.png?v=1681176108
See how the X seems to echo on the print