OctoPi is included by default for a GUI app, iirc.

Brittleness didn’t get talked about enough. I couldn’t figure out why my fundament was breaking on retraction to my Creality Hi CFS over and over again. It was driving me nuts. The prints all came out looking great, so I thought I wasn’t having humidity issues and that there was a mechanical problem somewhere. Took the whole damn thing apart to clean and check that everything was tightened to correctly. Multiple times.

I just needed a filament dryer.

I had no idea that filament snapping on retraction could be caused by wet filament, and I read about 3D printing a lot more than most. Almost all threads about wet filament are about print quality, and people rarely mention brittleness. Conversely, in threads about filament jams/errors, most comments focus on the mechanical parts (tension, loose screws, debris in the gears, temps, etc.) and rarely mention wet, brittle filament as a possible cause.

If you’re reading this and don’t have one (or another method for it), get a filament dryer. I recommend the Creality one when it goes on sale as it’s one of the cheapest options that can hit the high temps needed for some filaments and that can also be used as a dry box you can print from. My only gripe is needing to prop the lid open when it’s drying to release the humidity. It’s silly that it can’t dry filament properly without the door cracked open.

What the AI slop did I just read? That wasn’t even edited.

The infill selections for comparison don’t make a lick of sense, and one of the tables doesn’t even have content that matches its introduction.

What a waste of time.

Edit: 57 upvotes? What the hell. Does nobody read the article?

And “Windows” games run better in Linux/Proton. It’s more like a re-implementation of a feature set, right? Like, I could see devs targeting Proton as the primary target sometime in the future. That’s kinda how some multiplatform systems work already, going all the way back (at least) to “Java apps” in the 90s. (I can’t think of any older examples off the dome, but I only got into coding in a big way in the 00s, so I’m not confident.)

It literally is a distraction. And your outrage at that is exactly parent poster’s point.

The Republican Apparatus (and Conservatives around the world, for that matter) have discovered that they can continuously manufacture new outrage to distract from the actual policies they care about.

With the Tea Party, a couple of decades ago, they mastered weaponized wedge issues to distract. (The “War on Terror” was a manufactured war, and that strategy goes back decades.) But they have since escalated to crimes against humanity.

And it’s working. I haven’t seen many headlines about ICE or Epstein recently because the average American is bored of hearing about it.

Meanwhile, they are enacting policies to further concentrate wealth and power amongst the 0.1%.

I don’t believe my bank allows NFC payments or camera depositing cheques using the web app. I never use my bank card to pay anyway (not as protected as credit cards), so I don’t really know much about NFC payments by phone. I don’t think there are any significant technical barriers preventing them from implementing camera-based cheque depositing online, at least. I could live without that anyway… I get like 5 cheques a year?

I imagine NFC payments might have technical requirements that prevent a web app front end. They also might require more protection than just loading a website, but idk. We can already e-transfer once we’re logged in, so I’m not sure why NFC would need extra protection. But the cards they mail you has NFC payments built in, anyway, so I don’t get why this would be a deal breaker. It’s a minor inconvenience to get a bank-/credit-card phone case.

Logseq Database version is close to beta release. I’m looking forward to that since Logseq can get slow for power users (queries) with large graphs.

Not OP, but that search brings up a bunch of different products on AliExpress: black paste, white paste, sprays, creams, liquids… Do you know if it matters?

Thanks for the tip, regardless. They’re only a few bucks each, so 8 could try a few, but if you have one you know works for PLA and/or PETG, I’d appreciate knowing what worked for you!

Edit: I just thought to look at your gallery again and saw the headlight restoration bottle in the background in one of the pics, so never mind!

The open menu key. It’s the one I remap to Compose (for special characters, like Comp±-- to get —).

The Nuremberg trials only began after the Nazis were defeated.

“reading” one of those pages but don’t remember what the page was about.

That’s one of the biggest tells of AI-written text. It uses a lot of words to say very little, but does so in a very authoritative-sounding (or needlessly flowery) way.

SEO-based business models used blogspam before. It’s the same SEO garbage that gets it into search results, but the content is now AI slop instead of contracted labour at pennies/word.

And search is garbage, now, because of enshittification; Google gets more money when you give up and couch the sponsored links, and re-query or load more pages of results to load more ads. So there’s no incentive for them to filter the spam.

I’m almost exactly in the same boat, except even at my desk I want wireless. I often turn my camera off and get up to make coffee or go pee in big meetings. It’s great. Even when I’m presenting things, it’s usually only at a specific time, and I can still talk when I’m away from my desk (flip-to-mute microphones are great.)

I have several sets of wired headphones I used to love. I’d buy several sets at once so I already had a replacement when they inevitably broke But I literally can’t remember the last time I used a pair of wired headphones. I only miss 3.5mm on my phone for plugging into my car’s aux port.

It’s something like 5× stronger in the direction it prints than across layers, with great adhesion. It’s even worse if your adhesion is lower.

I’m liking Krita and Photopea (web app), but I’m not heavy into photography. I haven’t looked for a Lightroom replacement.

It will also likely work really well, apparently. I think you just need to be careful to pick a distro that comes with NVidea drivers, like CachyOS, and it will likely just work. Test with a live USB boot.

If you have an AMD GPU and don’t care about playing games that require kernel-level access for anticheat (ew), then Linux might just work better for you than Windows, for most games.

Like, getting Minecraft installed and working with mods in CachyOS just required installing Prism Launcher from the CachyOS repos (1 easy step) then launching it. I didn’t even need to open a web browser to download an installer.

Heroic Launcher is amaze balls, too. It pulls all the free games I get on GOG, Epic, and Amazon (iirc?) into one library that looks and works like Steam’s (amazing) library. So slick. (I think it’s preinstalled in CachyOS, too.)

Not mentioned, but if there are mobo monitor connections, try those, too.

But yes, this is almost definitely a hardware problem since it’s also happening in Windows. The only other plausible option would be the hardware’s firmware, but that seems unlikely…

It could theoretically be an incredible fluke to have a software issue in both Windows and Linux… Maybe the same weird edge-case hardware interaction that’s the same between two versions of a closed-source NVidia driver? I can’t see that as plausible, though.

If OP is in a developed country, used monitors are cheap. My vertically-oriented side monitor I got for $20, and I only even paid that much because I needed one that could go vertical orientation without a monitor arm.

Most disable Windows Updates for that reason, afaik? You can manually patch security updates without getting automatic updates, I think.

I don’t really care about Windows Updates for my use case since it’s just a VM and I know how to prevent most virus vectors anyway, but yes; there are major trade-offs to “debloating” Windows.

In the longer term, I want to try getting all my must-have apps for work running in browser apps or compatibility layers so I can just stay in Linux.

It might be the version of Windows 11 you have installed, too. Enterprise has no ads (or can be configured not to have ads, at least). Same for Professional, I think?

You can also use a post-install “Playbook” to rip all the adware and spyware out of Windows. I used ReviOS in my Windows 11 VM and it works well for me, but I’m guessing that’s not what you’ve done since you’d know about it, lol.

I’m super happy with my switch to CachyOS. Canadian laws roughly mirror US laws, so it’s a breath of fresh air to not need to deal with Microsoft’s bullshit (well, outside of the VM I need for work, anyway.)