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Cake day: June 30th, 2023

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  • Sounds to me like some of your fundamental settings are incorrect.

    1. Make sure your bed is level. Level manually with the piece of paper trick and then use autolevel if your printer has it. Make sure you’re actually loading the auto level offsets, I had to add some extra gcode for this at the beginning for every print.

    2. Check your print height and extruder speed. Check reference images for how your first layer should look. Your z offset should allow for a single line of print between the bed and the print head. Overcompensating by smashing the print head into the bed can help with adhesion but causes other issues later in the print. Also calibrate your extruder. It’s a pain in the ass, but actually go and get some digital calipers to do it. This is very important as overextrusion can cause many issues.

    3. Don’t overcompensate with temperatures. If you need 80c for your pla to stick it’s probably a different issue. I had generally bad bed adhesion before I ended up switching to a PEI steel sheet. If you’re staying on glass, cleaning the bed and using a bit of hairspray works wonders.

    4. Make sure your printer is in a stable environment. Close windows, doors in the room, make sure there is no draft (try not to blow on the print if you’re examining it from close as it goes) Air movement causes faster cooling which can cause warping.

    AFTER you are done with these, you can experiment with temps a bit and try more advanced things, but go through these steps first, start over from scratch if you have to. Using a brim or skirt is also sometimes helpful.

    It took me more than a year of off and on tinkering to get the printer to a somewhat stable state, so good luck! There is quite a steep learning curve for all of this.





  • Weirdly, I’m more or less okay with this. Hope someone gets my ballin’ Teriyaki sauce recipe

    Kidding aside usually this type of thing bothers me, for example I’m actively trying to find alternatives to Google services. But I feel like I’m not giving up that much information here.

    I just want a notes app that is intuitive and pleasant to use, and I really like notion’s UI




  • It sounds like it could easily run these. You could probably get away with a newer raspberry pi for them so the nuc should have no issues.

    For reference the heaviest thing for me has been Home assistant os, which needs dedicated ram and cores for it’s VM. I’ve had no issues with running almost a dozen services on a 4790k based system along HA including: Immich, plex, radarr/sonarr/prowlarr/etc, usually a dedicated game server for Valheim or Minecraft or something, and some other lighter services.

    I think ram (16gb) is going to be the limiting factor in my case but I haven’t hit that limit yet


  • I think there were two issues with it.

    They never really had a good UI indication of what elements are 3d touchable. This meant the average user never really used the feature too much and it was frustrating for some to try to find functionality that was “hidden” visually from the UI.

    Also the phones with 3d touch had significantly worse battery life than in the following years. Apparently the pressure sensing hardware took up a lot of space in the phone. I’m sure they could have made them a bit thicker, but this is Apple we’re talking about.

    Force touch still exists on the mac, and it has kinda the same UI issue going on. I’m personally not a huge fan of it though as even if you know you want to force touch something, you can’t really immediately do it. You first have to tap/click on the element and then apply more pressure, which makes the process a bit cumbersome.



  • Lots of good answers here.

    Another option would be taking MRE-s (meal ready to eat) it’s pre-packaged food designed for soldiers to eat while not having access to a kitchen. It usually has a solution to heat the food and plenty of calories for a full day.

    You can order them on the Internet from military surplus or other places and there is a bunch of flavours to choose from. They also have a long shelf life, don’t need refrigeration, and fit in a small space.