Is your printer set up on a good, solid countertop? If it rests on something that has any wobble, like a folding table, it can translate into poor prints. The higher off the build plate the print goes, and the faster you run the printer, the part will wiggle a bit without a solid mount. Also make sure all the frame screws are tight.

Have a couple Sceptre monitors around the house, about 10 years now. They’re great, no smart garbage installed. Don’t know of another brand making something similar.

MEK can be a great solvent, but also rather toxic. Not something you want to be working with without gloves and ventilation. Guy on a paint crew I worked with called it “methyl ethyl killya”.

That’s what I switched to about 2 months after getting my Ender 3 S1 Pro. Klipper running from a RPi, lets me push sliced files out over WiFi to the printer right from Orca. So much better than dealing with SD cards.

If you live somewhere with hard water, replace the copper with pex. The minerals eat away the pipes. We had a home in a hard water area once, sooo many pinhole leaks over time, and water heaters had really short life spans. If your water doesn’t require a softener, then keep the copper. If there’s a chance the pipes were exposed to freezing conditions at all in the past, look for bulges in the copper which will indicate weakened lines that should be replaced.

Perfect answer, no need for me to scroll further.

And sociopathy.

https://www.propublica.org/article/south-carolina-measles-hospital-admissions

Those companies, like Pfizer, do very little of their R&D. They spend money buying up companies to control the IP after most of the work is done. And that work is often funded by government grants. So American citizens have their tax money go towards research (which is great, I’m all for that) but for-profit companies come in at the end to carry the ball over the line, and make billions doing it (which we pay for too). Broken system.

Or we have to go to Mexico. Moderna just signed an agreement with the government there to do vaccine production.

And funding cuts ended a lot of ongoing research projects. The US will be at least a decade behind in breakthroughs because we have morons in charge who value conspiracy theory over scientific method.

I read the story about the FDA rejecting Moderna’s filing, then right after there was one about them signing a new manufacturing agreement with Mexico. Guess those of us in the US that want a vaccine will have to smuggle those across the border too now.

https://mexiconewsdaily.com/business/mexico-mrna-vaccines-agreement-moderna/

I just started looking at that this afternoon. May host my own on the game server I’m already running. Like that there are clients for Linux as well as Windows and Mac. My friend doing cross-play with his PS5 will probably have to link in using his phone though.

I did this, and installed the old drive into a USB adapter so I could easily pull any documents I may want to access. The Linux install will mount a NTFS drive, so worked great for that.

For the OP, while you CAN have the PC boot up to the Windows drive plugged into USB, I would not recommend doing it more than a couple times. Windows seems to hate this; I’ve had two installations of Win10 Pro eat itself and become unbootable, could not be repaired. The files were still accessible through Linux though so was able to make copies.

I use “Windy” in the US. They have over 50 different map overlays.

Infrared lasers used in lidar systems will damage phone cameras, so likely will fry surveillance cameras as well. You can buy 1550nm lasers used as illuminators for night vision systems. Probably want a Class 2 or 3.

https://www.techeblog.com/lidar-smartphone-camera-sensor-damage/

Heard of it, will try to see what it looks like. Maybe over this coming weekend if I have time. No GOG games, but assuming it’s a general launcher?

Not tried any Bottle installs yet. Been playing with Bottles recently trying to get Solid Edge to install (but that’s just not gonna happen, something is missing and install always errors out).

Used Cura a couple years ago prior to Orca when still using Windows. I did try running it again on Kubuntu, but it’s changed since running it before. Seems more geared toward Ultimaker printers now. While it will connect with a stock Creality printer, I’m running a modded printer through Klipper/Mainsail on a raspberry pi. Software just would not see my printer on the network.

Was playing Valheim with some friends. Tried installing mods on my Linux PC, struggled for two days trying to get anything to work. I just wanted to play, gave up and ran it from my Windows bootup. Vanilla Valheim runs no problem, it’s great. I tried using Nexus, Thunderstore, and manual installs. Even installed Gale to give that a try, but it didn’t make any sense. No real documentation for using it available.

Will say that I can run Ark Survival Ascended with mods no problem, but adding mods off of CurseForge is built into the game.

Right now running the flatpak version. Under 25.04 (Wayland) the software would not show the build plate preview, just a blank screen. Or hang for 20 seconds on startup then crash. I tried all the install options, but none would function. Frustrating, because after discussions with folks online, found that it worked for SOME people, but not everyone. Issues seemed to carry over to other similar slicers: Prusa, Cura, etc. I’ll eventually upgrade Kubuntu to the next LTS version, but gonna wait until it seems the slicer issues get fixed.