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- Comment on I bought an Ender 3 V3 (corexz) recently, and have been having bed adhesion issues. Please help me interpret this bed adhesion test result 3 days ago:
The goal of your offset is not to be zero. Actually, in a perfectly ideal world that would be impossible because it would result in your nozzle touching and dragging along the surface on the first layer. Your Z actual final Z offset figure will be arbitrary based on the vagarities of your particular machine including the total overall length of the nozzle and thickness of the build plate, etc.
The actual goal is to achieve an accurate first layer which results in a thickness of 0.2mm or whatever your first layer’s height is, with minimal inaccuracy. You have to set the offset of the nozzle from the plate via Z axis adjustment such that there is a (literally) paper-thin gap between the tip of the nozzle and the plate. That doesn’t mean just setting it to zero. If setting it to zero actually worked, there would not actually be any reason to calibrate it…
- Comment on I bought an Ender 3 V3 (corexz) recently, and have been having bed adhesion issues. Please help me interpret this bed adhesion test result 3 days ago:
Wiping the bed with alcohol doesn’t really remove any contamination from its surface, it more or less just moves it around. Wash it thoroughly with dish soap and running water as others have suggested and give it a real good rinse afterwards. The goal is to get oils and other contaminants off of the surface and to wash them down the drain, whence they will trouble you no more.
- Comment on everyone talks about chip bags being 50% wasted space but no one talks about creamed corn cans being 50% wasted space 4 days ago:
Chip bags are full of air to protect the chips from being crushed in transit.
Your corn is full of… uh, whatever it is that’s in there with creamed corn in order to protect your corn. Obviously.
- Comment on Well, it’s funny if you can read Egyptian signs! 1 week ago:
Right above Dat Boi is the Distracted Boyfriend meme.
Given the look on its face, the owl may be an O Rly?
I’m drawing a blank on the egg and its army, and the guy in the group of four with the nice hat.
- Comment on Karl Bushby: Made a bet in 1998 that he could walk from Chile to England. 27 Years later, Still walking. Survived Darién Gap, 57 days in a Russian prison, Traversing the Bering Strait on shifting ice 1 week ago:
It’s also an incredibly stupid bureaucratic clusterfuck of the magnitude that only customs and border people can achieve. Surely there should be some mechanism wherein you can send a letter or something to the Russian authorities to inform them, “Hey, we’re trying this stupid stunt and here is our plan, let us make our declarations now and we’ll pick up all the paperwork on the way once we get there.” But there probably isn’t, and then you wind up with crap like this.
The tinniest of tin-pot jumped up little dictators are never to actually be found in your nation’s capital. Instead they’re all lined up along its borders acting like these various lines in the sand were laser-etched there by god and aren’t ultimately just arbitrary and, indeed, historically much more fluid than they’d like to pretend.
- Comment on Crucial is shutting down — because Micron wants to sell its RAM and SSDs to AI companies instead 1 week ago:
They also undoubtedly want to develop it into a gargantuan pattern recognizing spy network so they can sell it to authoritarian fuckwits in various governments, ours and elsewhere. That sort of thing is terribly fashionable nowadays.
- Comment on I haven't seen anyone talking about the Anycubic Kobra s1 Max. 350mm3, 350c nozzle, active chamber heating. 1 week ago:
If you have more than one toolhead you’re not limited to just ramming different colors of the same material in there, either. You can run otherwise incompatible filaments that even require different temperatures from each other in the same print. Plus the ram-cut-and-purge brigade rarely work well with soft materials like TPU.
Multiple toolheads is the way to go if you actually want to get work done and not just slowly poop out multicolored low poly Pikachus, or whatever.
- Comment on Valve dev counters calls to scrap Steam AI disclosures, says it's a "technology relying on cultural laundering, IP infringement, and slopification" 2 weeks ago:
“Calls.”
There’s only one call, and it’s coming from Tim Sweeny at Epic. It’s just more of his usual yelling at clouds, because he’s got a pathological hate-on for anyone else who runs a storefont, including Apple and Google but especially Valve. He hasn’t made any positive contribution to the world since about 1998, and at this point we can all safely discard his opinion with nothing of value being lost. He wants to allow AI slime on his own platform because he thinks it’ll make him free money, but maybe he ought to worry about the smell coming from his own house before he goes around trying to dictate at others how they should run theirs.
- Comment on Dealing with an old sink and looking for help. 2 weeks ago:
Another fine idea. I’ve got a soap dispenser pump in mine.
- Comment on Black Friday, more like buy stupid shit day. 2 weeks ago:
I’m more of a Magnetbox bird, myself.
- Comment on THE ULTIMATE GAME tm ℠ ® © Pat. Pend. 2 weeks ago:
You yadda-yaddad a homie stock? You can’t yadda-yadda a homie stock!"
- Comment on Dealing with an old sink and looking for help. 2 weeks ago:
…And get one of those filler plates for the now empty hole in your sink. They’re cheap. Get a real stainless one, not a chrome or “satin nickel” or whatever the hell, which will rust in short order.
- Comment on Dealing with an old sink and looking for help. 2 weeks ago:
That’s a regular 3 hole (4, including the sprayer) kitchen faucet. There is absolutely nothing unusual about that. Shut off the valves, unscrew the braided stainless supply lines, undo those big plastic nuts on the underside and the whole thing will come off. Take it to the hardware store and they’ll sell you another one just like it.
Having a 3/8" compression fitting on the output side of your shutoff valves there is pretty normal. In Ye Olden Times that would accept a piece of copper tubing with a compression nut and a ferrule, but these days the flexible supply lines have a fitting that screws on in place of that.
The white hose going from the faucet itself to the sprayer is likely to be proprietary and model or at least brand specific to whatever faucet you have. You’re unlikely to find a replacement to just that at any hardware store.
- Comment on We need to normalize not captioning single image memes, so everyone can reuse it. 2 weeks ago:
Are we still doing “Oh, exploitable?”
- Comment on Qidi X-Max 3 - not performing as expected 2 weeks ago:
If your bed is physically tilted and you’ve ensured it’s flat (it seems that you have), you will probably want to manually adjust its straightness relative to the X/Y plane. Or perpendicularity. Is that a word? You know what I mean.
There are four locknuts on posts on the underside of the bed and if you remove the steel build sheet on top you’ll see the heads of the four screws on the other ends of these. There are probably myriad ways to measure its straightness, but Qidi recommend just manually moving the head around and using the textured nozzle offset sheet the printer came with to ensure that the gap is more or less consistent with the tip of the nozzle in the various extremities of the bed. You could also use a feeler gauge for this purpose if you were feeling frisky or wanted something more durable. You’ll want to do this with the bed at room temperature, so that rising or falling temperatures won’t be muddling your results via thermal expansion.
With the locknuts loosened, you can screw the four corners of the bed up and down slightly using the screw heads on top. These are the four screws closest to the corners. Be sure to hold the screw heads in place when you retighten the locknuts beneath, otherwise the act of tightening them will probably also turn the screws slightly and mess up all your hard work. Turning the screw heads clockwise lowers the bed, and turning them counterclockwise raises the bed in that corner.
Do not attempt to auto-home the print head or run a mesh level job without the steel sheet attached to the bed. The probe relies on the presence of the steel sheet and you will drill the nozzle into the magnetic surface of your print bed if you do. Just grab the print head to move it around in the X/Y plane and leave its jog controls alone. Only jog the bed itself.
Qidi have a video detailing this here. Yes, it’s just an MP4 plonked on a Google drive and no, I don’t know why they didn’t just post it you Youtube or something. They seem to distribute most things by just sticking them in a Google drive folder. You get used to it, dealing with Qidi.
I had to go through this rigmarole when I replaced the heated bed a while ago, which Qidi are not keen to tell you in advance. When I just slapped the new part on there as advertised I wound up with one corner of the bed tilted near as makes no difference to a full millimeter below the presumed plane of the Z axis and the other corner maybe 0.5mm above it. Somehow with mesh leveling this more or less still worked, but it’s much improved now that I’ve actually done it right… ish.
What I have now is this:
Look, it’s not exactly an ideal Euclidean plane or whatever the hell. But 0.2228mm from one corner to the other? S’okay? S’alright. That’s little enough that the mesh can compensate for it.
In case anyone is wondering, the mesh leveling appears to use a 9x9 grid. I thought it would be 10x10. I was wrong. That’s only 81 points of measurement which means that vagaries could theoretically fall in between the probed points. It’s not likely these will be Earth-shakingly severe, because the steel surface plate isn’t exactly tinfoil and it’s only so flexible to begin with. And here’s another dumb tip for your travels while we’re at it: Make sure there’s no crap stuck to the backside of your steel plate, or trapped between it and the magnetic base. Scraps of black filament are what get me, because they’re hard to spot. But they’ll cause you no end of grief.
- Comment on Have clankers visited my blog one hundred twenty-one sexagintillion eight hundred ten novemquinquagintillion times so far in November?? 2 weeks ago:
In my case the pattern appears to be some manner of DDoS botnet, probably not an AI scraper. The request origins are way too widespread and none of them resolve down to anything that’s obviously datacenters or any sort of commercial enterprise. It seems to be a horde of devices in consumer IP ranges that have probably be compromised by some malware package or another, and whoever is controlling it directed it at our site for some reason. It’s possible that some bad actor is using a similar malware/bot farm arrangement to scrape for AI training, but I’d doubt it. It doesn’t fit the pattern from that sort of thing from what I’ve seen.
Anyway, my script’s been playing automated whack-a-mole with their addresses and steadily filtering them all out, and I geoblocked the countries where the largest numbers of offenders were. (“This is a bad practice!” I hear the hue and cry from specific strains of bearded louts on the Internet. That says maybe, but I don’t ship to Brazil or Singapore or India, so I don’t particularly care. If someone insists on connecting through a VPN from one of those regions for some reason, that’s their own lookout.)
They seem to have more or less run out of compromised devices to throw at our server, so now I only see one such request every few minutes rather than hundreds per second. I shudder to think how long my firewall’s block list is by now.
- Comment on Have clankers visited my blog one hundred twenty-one sexagintillion eight hundred ten novemquinquagintillion times so far in November?? 2 weeks ago:
I have and there’s nothing noteworthy, other than tons of other retailers selling the same thing of course.
- Comment on Have clankers visited my blog one hundred twenty-one sexagintillion eight hundred ten novemquinquagintillion times so far in November?? 2 weeks ago:
It doesn’t quite work that way, since the URL is also the model number/SKU which comes from the manufacturer. I suppose I could write an alias for just that product but it would become rather confusing.
What I did experiment with was temporarily deleting the product altogether for a day or two. (We barely ever sell it. Maybe 1 or 2 units of it a year. This is no great loss in the name of science.) This causes our page to return a 404 when you try to request it. The bots blithely ignored this, and continued attempting to hammer that nonexistent page all the same. Puzzling.
- Comment on Another angle of this modern art installation 2 weeks ago:
It is, but none of the four bus drivers have all of the information. You will also need two or three cops or at least guys in fluorescent vests to physically block traffic from entering the circle and or bitch-slap selfish asshats as necessary until the Gordian knot of buses is untied, otherwise said selfish asshats will try to barge into the intersection the second the first bus moves and start everything all over again.
- Comment on Have clankers visited my blog one hundred twenty-one sexagintillion eight hundred ten novemquinquagintillion times so far in November?? 2 weeks ago:
Maybe, but I also carry literally hundreds of other products from that same brand including several that are basically identical with trivial differences, and they’re only picking on that one particular SKU.
- Comment on Settings you believe ANY game should have? (This is me advocating for a restart/reboot button on ALL games) 2 weeks ago:
Given I’ve never seen that actually become the case even in games with engines I had to apply configuration hacks to increase the FOV, I find all of that highly unlikely.
- Comment on Settings you believe ANY game should have? (This is me advocating for a restart/reboot button on ALL games) 2 weeks ago:
performance implications
That might be fine for consoles which have known performance limitations built in. But if I’m on my PC, let me make that decision. Don’t try to make it for me.
- Comment on Settings you believe ANY game should have? (This is me advocating for a restart/reboot button on ALL games) 2 weeks ago:
I’m glowering hard at No Man’s Sky’s permanent chromatic aberration effect applied to the top 20% of your viewport at all times, here.
- Comment on RAM is so expensive that stores are selling it at market prices 2 weeks ago:
They also need to be able to replenish that stock at current prices. I’ve worked retail many times in my life and arguably kinda-sorta do so now (albeit largely over the Internet) and I’ve never run any store where we did not set our pricing by replacement cost rather than original invoice cost. In my current operation there are some rare exceptions for clearance items and the like, but for the vast majority of products we sell for what it’s going to cost me to get the next one to put back on that shelf, not what it cost me for the one I’m selling you now.
I don’t have any insider insight into other companies’ operations, but I imagine a lot of other retailers work things the same way. Especially these days.
- Comment on Settings you believe ANY game should have? (This is me advocating for a restart/reboot button on ALL games) 2 weeks ago:
One of the latter Final Fantasies did this. I think it was 13? Despite that game’s many other rather glaring shortcomings, that part was pretty neat. I agree it should definitely be standard for most RPG and heavily story driven games.
- Comment on Settings you believe ANY game should have? (This is me advocating for a restart/reboot button on ALL games) 2 weeks ago:
All controls should be remappable. All means all. Not most, not some, and certainly none of this bullshit where all you can do is toggle between “XBox 360 controller layout A/XBox 360 controller layout B.” This is especially true for titles on consoles, many of which still to this very day don’t allow you to remap their controls at all.
For 3D games, field of view. Far too many developers of FPS titles in particular have Console Disease, and feel it’s somehow acceptable to lock the FOV to 70° or some absurd number. If they allow you to adjust it at all they may be feeling “generous” enough to let you go as high as 90°. That’s completely unacceptable. On my 4K monitor that’s 25" from my face, I need at least 120°. Honestly, I want to see that slider go up to 180°. That’s right, I want to be able to look at your game world like a goddamned pigeon. On that note I really have to wonder what those people with those 3840x1080 überwide monitors do most of the time, other than spending their days in never ending torment.
Allow me to turn off the stupid pre-launch splash titles. Certainly at least after the first startup. I certainly don’t need to be told that nVidia is the way it’s meant to be played, or that your company licensed Havok, or who your publisher is, or who your publisher’s owner is, or who your publisher’s owner’s owner is, etc. Nobody cares. Usually instead you have to resort to replacing the .mkv or .bik files in the game folder with zero-byte text files or something. It’s dumb.
While we’re griping, and speaking of Console-Itis, does every PC game now need to have an unskippable message telling me that this game has auto save and urging me not to turn off my PC when the icon is being displayed? Really? Nobody’s going to do that. Tell me your game is a shitty console port without telling me your game is a shitty console port. To keep this on topic, let’s have a setting to turn that off, too, because it’s stupid. Off by default would be nice. Should there be an Idiot Mode toggle?
Granularity in subtitles. It seems too many games only have two settings: All subtitles off, or they assume you’re completely deaf. Typically I want to be able to read what characters are saying in their voice lines, but instead the developers also think I need to see the bottom third of my screen filled with [BOOM] [GUNFIRE] [JUKEBOX MUSIC] [FOOTSTEPS] [BOOM] [GUNFIRE] [BOOM] [BOOM] and so on and so forth, all the time. They should either categorize sounds and make their subtitling things individually selectable, or at least if they insist on making it a slider give it three or four levels: Off, cutscene/conversation dialog only, all spoken lines (“Cover me!” “Reloading!” “Never should have come here!” etc.), and then only the top level resulting in every single cricket and rustle of grass being captioned. Some games do manage to accomplish this. Many do not.
Oh, I thought of a good one to add to my wish list. I want every game to bring back the sound test menu. But they won’t, because every studio on Earth now wants you to spend an extra $15 for their game’s soundtrack. (As if it’s not all going to be on Youtube about twelve seconds after release anyway…)
- Comment on Have clankers visited my blog one hundred twenty-one sexagintillion eight hundred ten novemquinquagintillion times so far in November?? 2 weeks ago:
Negative. Our solution is completely home grown. All artisinal-like, from scratch. I can’t imagine I reveal anything anyone would care about much except product specs, and our inventory and pricing really doesn’t change very frequently.
Even so, you think someone bothering to run a botnet to hound our site would distribute page loads across all of our products, right? Not just one. It’s nonsensical.
- Comment on Have clankers visited my blog one hundred twenty-one sexagintillion eight hundred ten novemquinquagintillion times so far in November?? 2 weeks ago:
I run an ecommerce site and lately they’ve latched onto one very specific product with attempts to hammer its page and any of those branching from it for no readily identifiable reason, at the rate of several hundred times every second. I found out pretty quickly, because suddenly our view stats for that page in particular rocketed into the millions.
I had to insert a little script to IP ban these fuckers, which kicks in if I see a malformed user agent string or if you try to hit this page specifically more than 100 times. Through this I discovered that the requests are coming from hundreds of thousands of individual random IP addresses, many of which are located in Singapore, Brazil, and India, and mostly resolve down into those owned by local ISPs and cell phone carriers.
Of course they ignore your robots.txt as well. This smells like some kind of botnet thing to me.
- Comment on Pebble Time 2 has screws 2 weeks ago:
I’ve got a Timex Expedition that I’ve had since high school. That means I bought it some time during the early Triassic. Its stainless steel backplate is held on with four Phillips screws and I have never in many decades had any problems undoing them when I need to replace the battery every six years or so. It remains resolutely waterproof. I know this because it lives outside rather frequently: at the moment I have it stuck to the gauge cluster on one of my motorcycles with Velcro.
- Comment on Anyone here have a Qidi? Need help fiddling with the firmware 2 weeks ago:
If your Q1 is anything like my previous X-Plus or current X-Max 3, pretty much all of the routines you can run from the touch screen are macros that are defined in your printer.cfg on the machine itself. This is just a text file full of gcode and you can dick with it freely without having to reflash the firmware. The only “fun” part will be figuring out which one of the custom macros it is, since Qidi doesn’t always give them a readable name and they tend to make them random looking numeric strings. I’ll have to take a look at mine when I get home and ensure that the filament load/unload/runout routines are located there, but I’m pretty sure they are.
You can directly edit your printer.cfg through the Mainsail interface within the Qidi Slicer or you can SSH into the machine and get a terminal via which you can mess with things directly (username mks, password makerbase).
