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You can also just meet her where she is. The big strength of polyamory is that you don’t need one partner who can fulfil all your needs.

What you have with Sylvia might be referred to as a “comet relationship”. They come around once every now and then, burns hot and bright for a short time and then they leave for a while.

It’s not bad or good, it just is.

You gotta sell your friends and/or fam on it, though

You did the right thing, the person was angry with no real outlet for it, so their brain found someone to blame to release that tension. They were not thinking rationally and attempts to argue would have been stonewalled and probably would have escalated things.

This is not a justification for their behaviour, it was despicable and wrong. More so my opinion of why anything other than what you did was correct.

I’m really sorry.

Look, we can’t have TVs that last 15 years anymore!

We need to keep people buying every year or two. Otherwise line not go up! Don’t you understand that this is about protecting The Economy?!

I dunno man.

Company: Here’s a change.

Users: This sucks!

Company: Ok, let’s roll that back.

If the company were Apple, the change would stick. If it were Microsoft, the change would be rolled back for 2 weeks and then quietly re added.

Neat!

Blender and FreeCAD.

Blender for organic, sculpted shapes.

FreeCAD for parametric, accurate parts.

Waow, look at all the money we saved with layoffs. Buy our stock!

Waow, look at all the growth we’re experiencing, we have to hire more developers. Buy our stock!

Of course, not all the companies survive and now there’s decreased competition, so we can shove prices up a little bit further

Getting real tired of the “boycott Mozilla! They take money from Google!” And “boycott Mozilla! They try to make money from their users!” Merry-go-round.

The fact it happened at the same z location twice is telling.

Try a slim vase-mode print that reaches past that height and see if it happens again.

I’m nearly 40 and the world they are facing is so different to what I experienced that I don’t know if any advice I could give would even make sense.

Don’t suffer fools, I guess. Life is too short to put up with people who don’t, won’t or can’t respect you. You don’t have to make it a big deal, in fact that might be the wrong move if you’re dealing with a narcissist. Instead become uninteresting when interacting with them. The Grey Rock technique.

Show support, if you can! (And if the project is still active)

https://www.crowdsupply.com/open-tools/open-printer

All true, but sometimes a clog turns into a Clog and it’s time to just drop in a replacement while you try and fix the clogged one.

Addendum: If nozzles are cheap, you could pick some up. They are consumable parts.

And you could grab a tighter nozzle too, for better details in your prints. (Though the print time goes up dramatically!)

Those are fine picks.

Grab some big ziplock bags and a pack of desiccant sachets to keep the filaments dry while in storage.

If something is worth paying for I just do that up-front. (Outside of some exceptions where I actively don’t want to support the creator or license holder)

Yep! (Though “one or two” might be too few!)

That is part of it, but you also need to practice asking clarifying questions and collaborating around a solution. OP was pretty much guaranteed to fuck up their first go. It’s something that gets easier over time.

Also, something that really messed me around was that System Design questions have a particular form and expectations around them. So read up on how they flow and practice those too

I’d personally be looking towards Prusa, in that case.