natecox

You don’t need to experience suffering to empathize with it.

Listening to the stories of people who are personally dealing with the pushing of data centers into urban areas is heartbreaking and should be a deal killer by itself. Honestly if that doesn’t make you angry in the extreme that is very concerning to me.

Watching people lose their livelihoods in a massive wealth transfer should be infuriating. The class warfare is out and plain sight and should feel intolerable.

Watching scores testing decision making skills plummet at alarming speeds, education benchmarks erode, and young people get talked into suicide; all of these things do not require personal experience to understand.

The writing is on the wall, I honestly can not understand reading it and not getting angry.

Try reading your own post out loud, get out the rubber duck if you need to, and see if you can understand why you sound like a deranged zealot rather than simply a passionate user.

I’ll help you get started: note that every argument you’ve made starts with a base assumption about your interlocutors pulled from nothing, and note that every assumption conveniently draws a stark dichotomy between you as the informed rational party and the other as a bumbling uninformed moron.

Also notice how you draw lines in the sand that let you completely dismiss any thought you don’t like.

Glorious leader does not age. His youth and virility are timeless.

“the only conceivable reason anyone could object is that they’re ignorant” is cultish logic. Adding “my hero likes it so it can’t be bad” does not help.

Some of us have been “in the field” for decades and don’t like these tools for many reasons, including “the output is unacceptable bad” and “the tools are built in unethical and morally deficient ways”.

Inland, the microcenter house brand, is surprisingly good for the price point and comes in basically every color imaginable.

Polymaker is also very good with lots of colors. They used to be very expensive but the price is competitive today.

Cold pulling is where you heat the hot end up to just past the melting point of your filament and push a bit of filament through it by hand until an inch or so comes through, then you cut the heat and let the nozzle cool down a bit, then pull the filament back through the extruder side.

This basically traps all the little bits of semi-melted plastic left behind from previous prints, and pulls them out as one big glob.

Different guides will give different advice about the temp to cool to, but basically you want it cool enough that it puts up meaningful resistance pulling the filament back out by hand but isn’t impossible.

You should probably do this on some routine, but at the very least after any clog and when you get print errors that you can’t immediately diagnose. Partial clogs are responsible for way more issues than you might think.

You say you cleaned the nozzle, did you do a cold pull? Sounds like a potential clog.

The big yellow one is the sun.

You need some kind of filler if you want seams to disappear, like bondo. The filler will be ugly though so you’re going to need paint for sure.

Clever design can make seams less visible but the joints are always going to be there to some degree.

Or just live with the seams lol.

Fixing your warping/shrinking will make them less visible too.

Same