People won’t forgive the damage he’s done to the country that welcomed him.
People won’t forget the Nazi salutes.

That’s what he’s bringing back to Tesla. Unless Tesla severs all ties with this toxic liability, they’re doomed.

It’s amusing to watch incompetent morons disrupt the plans of other incompetent morons.

This new trend of using “slam”, “blast” and “torch” in each and every headline in a cheap effort to make it more sensational annoys the living shit out of me. It’s like English for toddlers…

The White House is a tank, but there’s not much think going on there.

I believe OP meant the Heritage Foundation - the root of a lot of evil in the United States, including the ongoing terribleness.

Tesla is never going to recover from the Musk effect. They have to convince Musk to fully divest to slowly convince would-be buyers that they won’t give their money to an ultra-billionnaire neo-Nazi when they buy a Tesla vehicle.

It’s true. But what’s also true is that Mozilla is squandering development resources on this AI slop instead of making the browser better.

Then again, developing stuff nobody wants has been a hallmark of Mozilla for decades. So nothing new there…

“We are going to have a crash and we’re going to have a crash like a 1929 crash if she gets in,” the Republican nominee warned, referring to the Great Depression.

Perhaps Trump identifies as a woman and referred to himself.

That’s not enough.

It doesn’t matter if Musk stops his MAGA antics overnight; as long as this disgusting South African Nazi owns even one share of Tesla, I ain’t buying a car for them.

If Tesla ever wants me to even consider one of their vehicles, they have to ditch the sumbitch.

What a group of bozos

You misspelled Bezos.

Hey Mozilla, here’s a hint: nobody likes AI.

Well spotted 🙂

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I think HBO thinks they have a great asset because Maher can still pretend he’s left wing on the surface (getting thinner by the minute though) and suck up to Trump and the magats at the same time. So HBO nurtures him and his show to hedge their bets.

I quit finding Bill Maher funny years ago, and I can see right through his “I’ll talk to anyone” shtick: the man is basically MAGA-adjacent to put it kindly, and his vehement and frequent critique of Trump and MAGA is just a distraction.

That’s why Trump invited him to dinner: Maher is the useful pseudo left-wing pundit whom he hopes will legitimize him.

Fuck Bill Maher.

Ooh that’s clever. And I have just the part to test this - a big clamp that needs to hold a part together in 2 axes and regular breaks on the axis that was printed vertically.

Okay so I’ve readjusted the belts’ tension this morning. The X belt was a bit loose and the Y belt was a bit too tight, strangely enough. Both in the green though. So I set them to the middle of the range. Good thing I checked anyway because all the screws on the X motor mount were so loose they were on the verge of letting go completely.

And since I was at it, I cleaned the entire enclosure and re-lubed the rails and the linear bearings.

However, I don’t think the printer faulted because of any of this: I checked where the hard limit was in X and Y and found that the nozzle came right at the edge of the previous prints that failed on the left and on the top:

At this point, I’m convinced the printer got lucky twice when it printed that print right, and when it didn’t, it was the result of the carriage hitting the limits when the motor(s) overshot the extreme positions a bit. I re-sliced that print to leave some margin with what PrusaSlicer believes are the limits of the printing area and I came to a perfectly printed set of parts today. And the new set I started 2 hours ago seems fine too.

So I think the lesson here is that PrusaSlicer is a bit too optimistic with how large you can print, both in X and Y. It pays not to believe it too much.

EDIT: 6 hours later, another perfect batch. So I think my theory is confirmed.

Grid infill is crossing, get a decent blob or buildup and you could have nozzle collision, I personally like gyroid but it is slower.

I’ve had the extruder collide into blob on solid infills (or perimeters) when the filament was too hot - usually TPU or TPE - but never infill. I’ll give gyroid a spin though.

prusa has an article for troubleshooting layer shifting

That’s a great article. Thanks!

I’ll go check everything tomorrow. The thing is, it’s the first time this happens (well, second time now). The only unusual thing I did compared to previous prints was fill the bed to the brim, right up to the edges as allowed by PrusaSlicer. I’ve corrected that to make sure this isn’t the issue. Other than that, it’s a printer that’s been printing all day every day for a good year and a half. So yeah, it probably needs some TLC at some point…

Interesting. I’ll have to try the reverse experiment: I have a roll of TPE that’s been drying in the dryer for at least 3 weeks. I’ll take it out and see how fast it’ll reabsorbs water.

How much weight difference do you see? Do you simply wait for the weight to stop changing?
Good thinking. I didn’t think about that.

My company is flexible, but ultimately this is not my printer and I want to ask permission to undertake maintenance. For all I know, whoever ordered it in the first place is in fact in charge of it, or maybe they want a 3rd party to do it. It’s just a matter of talking to the boss and making sure what I’m about to do is approved 🙂