Um, well the other elephant in the room is that if you cap off the port and never use it, it’s also irrelevant what its service lifetime is since you’re never going to use it.

Easy: “Everyone I don’t like is either a shill or a bot!”

or the equivalent for woman and be done with it.

You’ll probably find that one to be more difficult than you think, especially in these regressive times.

It’s all pipes, Jerry!

Well, okay, they’re the mainly public facing ones. Gemini, GPT, Copilot, whatever the hell Musk’s one is, Grok? All of that bullshit is just LLM’s, the ones nobody asked for and nobody wants. That’s what everyone is complaining about.

This is so, but LLM’s are the only most visible public facing ones and they’re the dumbshit technology that every company on Earth is now trying to shoehorn into every product. They’re what people see, interact with, and get pissed off by.

Learning neural nets are good for various specific types of pattern recognition tasks, but trying to be an electronic butler who answers your questions ain’t one of them and it never will be.

No you don’t. I have one shower in my house with a window in it, and it’s an extra special pain in the ass. Window frames and windowsills are full of nooks and crannies and accumulate mildew like you wouldn’t believe, and require 600% more cleaning effort than is appropriate to prevent them from doing so.

That, and good luck finding any window treatments that are suitable for use while being constantly soaked. I resorted to making a “curtain” out of a modified shower curtain.

This is what I get for my house being a 1920’s redneck abomination where everything is an addition, and what is now the ground floor bathroom is in the spot where the original kitchen was in the 1930’s, with the window that used to be over the kitchen sink now directly in the center of the bathtub.

Mine came with one plated (with nickel, I believe) brass one and an entire spare hotend with a hardened steel one installed. They advise you to use the steel one for filled filaments (carbon fiber, glass, glow, etc.) and also high temperature materials.

I have since replaced my stock nozzle with an aftermarket polycrystalline diamond one, and it’s been completely trouble free.

I don’t know about the Q1 Pro but I have an X-Max 3 and it has been bombproof for me so far. It absolutely can print PA-CF if you want to.

Mine can also print ABS about as easily as most machines print PLA, which I find fairly astounding.

If you want something with a vaguely similar texture and taste – it’s up to the reader to determine if this is similarly awful, or similarly “good” – Spree candies are close. Including the pronounced grittiness, although Spree have a smooth candy shell as well.

That style should be clutch fit, i.e. the knob just pulls off. It may be gunked on there with 40 years of accumulated crud, though. So this is likely to require a hard yank or possibly some prying. Good news: The cover plate is already broken, so prying on it can’t possibly meaningfully break it further.

It’s also not outside the realm of possibility that her handyman broke it, and his solution for “fixing” it was to just glue the knob onto its stem before anybody noticed.

If it breaks, no big deal. Breaking it is also a valid way to get it off, and an entire replacement dimmer is like $9 at the hardware store. You can also get replacement knobs for a couple of bucks, and they’re generally broadly interchangeable (although these days, without that groovy aluminum accent disk in the middle).

Here are the pics inline for everyone’s benefit.

Like that guy who never posts any comments shorter than three paragraphs all perfectly formatted and punctuated.

'Sup.

Yes, I realize this particular comment is somewhat self defeating and probably not a great example. But that’s not the point.

The point is it’s apparently become my mission in life to annoy all the people on the internet who just check out any time they see a string of text that’s longer than 160 characters. I’ve been doing this since the early '90’s and you punks will never stop me.

Finally, the ability to view (and delete!) your own uploads.

FYI, the sorting on the uploads tab is broken. Obviously I don’t expect sorting by “top” or “controversial” or whatever to work, but sorting by “old” doesn’t, either. It’s always sorted by newest first. But at least it’s something. (I know for sure I have images uploaded that were not used in posts.)

I’m not saying nobody has that requirement, I’m just predicting that most people actually don’t if they sit down and think about it for a minute.

Also, what jaroni just said about cover art and position saving is still patently false and has been since, like, 1994.

Artwork

Yes they can, via images embedded in their ID3 tags. This is supported by a huge array of players in terms of both physical hardware and software.

Keep your place

Yes they can, via many players (including both VLC which is what I use, and also my car stereo).

Sync across devices

This much is true, at least in the players I use. There’s probably a solution with some specific player somewhere.

But specifically for audiobooks, I don’t… need… to play across multiple devices. I listen via only two methods: My headphones (which are driven by my phone) and in my car (which works with my phone). I only actually use one player. It goes with me everywhere. Ours go with most of us everywhere; we’re naked without 'em.

If your use case requires a networked solution, you do you. I’m just saying, don’t automatically get blinded by how the Streaming Era has kind of fucked up everyone’s brain.

Edit: Downvoting me doesn’t change the fact that what you said was false.

Yes, I am aware of where this is posted and am prepared for my inevitable crucifixion as a result of this observation. But, like… is this really a problem that requires a self hosting solution? That seems like quite the overcomplication to me unless you absolutely require access to your entire selection on multiple devices that will have 24/7 network connections for some reason. I imagine most people actually don’t. And if you do, a simple file share is probably a less convoluted solution, and surely already exists on the server you already have.

MP3’s take up negligible amounts of storage space on modern devices and can be played on anything, and can be easily taken with you anywhere including out of network range.

I guess teaching people how to drag-and-drop audio files onto their phone and open them with VLC would be a much shorter article.

(Ed: Punctuation.)

What your picture is showing is not stringing, it appears to be an utter failure of layer adhesion. That indicates to me you are printing too cold or, more likely, too fast for PETG. What you’re grinding against is most likely layers of the print that have not adhered to the layers below.

Try slowing it down and do a test print. See if anything improves.

Random hardware trivia, absorbed while managing a hardware store decades ago:

This type of object is called a “well nut.” I’ll leave it to you to come up with your own pun based on this.

What makes you think it wasn’t?