Whenever the old one dies or becomes unusable. A new phone doesn’t really offer much new, so I see no reason to upgrade just for the sake of upgrading

Hate, no, but severely annoyed yes; My oldest (14 y.o.) severely lacks the ability to walk down a flight of stairs without sounding like an elephant trying to stomp a mouse. He has the discretion of a landslide, and I’m sure my neighbors can hear when he comes down for a mid-night or early morning snack.

Some PETG residue after scraping off a notoriously resistant brim a while back. It doesn’t affect the print, but it’s fugly enough that I rarely use that side of the sheet. Note that the lighting causes it to look worse than it actually is.

Love it. However, I feel that it should be possible to automate the procedure: Grab images, sort them, and compare them to find any moving objects. Then somehow look them up to check whether it’s already registered.

Sounds like a reasonably simple script wrapped around curl, some gfx library calls, and possibly selenium or WWW::Mechanize

I happened to be watching the print camera when a nut suddenly dropped onto the print sheet. Luckily it’s just a short test print, so it gets to complete the current job.

If I’m not mistaken, it’s one of the nuts holding the X rail in place. Time to do some tightening I guess.

UPDATE: It was actually from the top vent cover. These nuts are intentionally left somewhat loose for the vent to open/shut easily. Not critical, but I need to get some locktite on there.

Looking forward to the remake of the Right Said Fred song.

That my parents didn’t have parents. I knew my grandparents well, I just never connected the dots.

I was in the same boat, so I’ll leave you with this golden nugget you probably want to check out:

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Forrest Gump.

Hear me out… As many already know, the original author deliberately wrote a terrible sequel book in an effort to ensure that a sequel would never be made. And I respect that kind of integrity to the point where I intend on buying the book just to support his decision. And if, against all odds, they actually made that book into a movie, I’d probably watch it so he could get some royalties from that too.

It could be fun to watch a sequel of her getting PTSD’d by yet another mode of transportation after getting railed by some lower class riffraff.

She became queen of somewhere far far away, actually. I don’t remember the details; it was a long long time ago.

Memes

Fuckit, if anything more fancy than HTML + CGI is needed, there’s always VRML.

…holy shit, it just dawned on me… VRML + CGI? Today’s PCs should have no issue rendering it, and server-side should be the same as any other CGI page. I gotta do some experimenting with this.

UPDATE: I actually did some research into this, and the possibilities are actually quite extensive. In theory it should be possible to make an extremely basic multiplayer FPS game.

It has been claimed that the scene from Veep (great TV show, by the way) where one of the aides describe how they were shaving the VPs legs under the desk for her was inspired by an actual rumor surrounding Amy Klobuchar

I choose to believe that autism appeared only after the invention of railway, and you can’t convince me otherwise.

Probably because we want somewhere that isn’t flooded with whatever detestable thing trump last did or said. I’ve been meaning to put out feelers about revising the rule to “No current/recent politics”, but I’ve never gotten around to it.

By the way, I recommend going for the kit and not the preassembled one. Learning how everything fits together helps on the maintenance, plus the assembly instructions are really well written. Also, the kit is a little cheaper.

Took me three evenings to assemble everything.

What’s the budget? There are many good ones in many price categories, so if you have a figure in mind, that helps narrow it down.

Personally I’m a big fan of my Prusa Core One. It’s fun to build and it hasn’t left me wanting, plus there are many upgrade options available. It’s also pretty open in terms of software, as opposed to certain other manufacturers which seem to be going for a walled garden approach.

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