Jtskywalker

joined 2 years ago
[–] Jtskywalker@lemm.ee 1 points 2 years ago

I need to do that - I haven't finished fully calibrating everything. I still need to calibrate flow and pressure advance as well. The current settings are pretty good for print quality so I haven't messed with it much but the last few prints I have noticed some issues with dimensional accuracy that affect tighter tolerances

[–] Jtskywalker@lemm.ee 2 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I use Cura 5.4 and the only changes I made were to the start and end gcode for the machine (per the guild I linked). After that, I did a few prints with my regular profiles, then started cranking up the speed a little at a time. So really the only setting I changed was the print speed and start / end gcode.

The printer handled everything else - honestly it feels a little like magic to me, even though it's just software. I'm a software engineer so I feel like I should have a better grasp of it, but printer firmware is pretty far outside of the type of work I do. One thing I do know is that Klipper manages acceleration itself and doesn't use the acceleration gcodes sent from the slicer - those get ignored and Klipper decides how fast to accelerate (this is configurable using moonraker or the config files).

I think the thing that makes the most difference in letting you print at higher speeds is the input shaping. I don't understand all the inner workings, but it using the processing power on the raspberry pi to compensate for the vibration of the printer, letting you print much faster without getting artifacts in the print that affect quality. Here is some info on that

I'm sure there are a lot of slicer and Klipper configurations that I can do to improve things even more as well

[–] Jtskywalker@lemm.ee 1 points 2 years ago

A lot of these are things everyone does sometimes. If it's something that is happening multiple times a week, or multiple times a day, then it might be worth taking to your Dr and filing out the test.

Full time student + full time work is a LOT to handle, even without ADHD.

[–] Jtskywalker@lemm.ee 2 points 2 years ago

Yeah it doesn't seem too difficult to me to see when reviews seem fishy. I have never tried fakespot myself.

Another thing to check is that the reviews match what the product is for - I have seen a lot of Amazon listings where the seller will have a product up for a long time, get a lot of positive reviews, then change the listing to something else. So it looks like the listing has been up for a long time with good reviews but it's really a different item. Then note the seller and don't buy anything from them lol.

[–] Jtskywalker@lemm.ee 24 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Per the article, they are integrating Fakespot into Firefox, so it won't be different. Hopefully the tool can be improved

[–] Jtskywalker@lemm.ee 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I also recommend writing down symptoms - For me it varies a lot from day to day and it can be difficult to remember what the more extreme symptoms are like when I'm not experiencing them.

[–] Jtskywalker@lemm.ee 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

That's a great idea! I did start writing some things down but not with dates or times so I'll start a proper log

[–] Jtskywalker@lemm.ee 11 points 2 years ago (1 children)

No, it's not excuses, it's just reality. It's hard. Does that mean people shouldn't try to do better and make things better? Of course not. Being better and doing better is hard, and we should do it anyway. That kind of personal growth is central to the human experience, or it ought to be.

The thing is, just because people aren't doing better in the area that you understand and care about doesn't mean that they aren't in other areas that you may not know about.

For example, someone who is stressed out and overburdened with work may be using all of their available energy to be a better parent and make sure that their child is raised in a healthy and emotionally stable home. If that doesn't leave room for people to support FOSS and privacy friendly browsers that's ok.

Just be the best human you can be every day and don't beat yourself (or others) up for not being perfect.

[–] Jtskywalker@lemm.ee 21 points 2 years ago (3 children)

It's not really the time. It's more about the mental effort it takes to find out what to switch to.

Sure, it's easy to install Firefox or sign up for Lemmy once you know that it's there, but most people just have a sense that things suck with no idea of what they can do to fix it.

Finding out what to do to have a better experience takes a non-trivial amount of mental energy that scrolling reddit and instagram do not require.

The constant hustle, multiple jobs, or jobs with a high mental load, rising prices and stagnant wages all work together to create a lot of decision fatigue and stress. It often takes something major to get people out of that and get them active at changing things.

[–] Jtskywalker@lemm.ee 2 points 2 years ago

Probably my favorite RPG - Such a rich environment and a totally unnecessary amount of lore and background information in all of the included books and dialogue. Really set me up to be severely unfulfilled by everything else Bethesda made after that point.

[–] Jtskywalker@lemm.ee 3 points 2 years ago

I will try that! I have never had to worry about it in the past so that will be an adjustment

[–] Jtskywalker@lemm.ee 3 points 2 years ago

Great little machine! I have one as my first and only printer and I have been loving it. Prints PETG and TPU very well

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