Post AzGiPgB9nmryN7R8Vc by bayindirh@mastodon.sdf.org
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(DIR) Post #AzEQkYnYFf7k4THaJE by foone@digipres.club
2025-10-15T11:26:07Z
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I have resumed the folly of 3d printing after a nearly year long hiatusplace your bets until how long it'll be until I'm ranting about how printers are a sin against man and god
(DIR) Post #AzER24MU9Wkut0yItc by rosareven@gamerstavern.online
2025-10-15T11:29:11Z
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@foone 30 minutes
(DIR) Post #AzER5GUpUd4vOEOlOK by foone@digipres.club
2025-10-15T11:29:50Z
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crashed my slicer
(DIR) Post #AzER5OKUMxYngTccNs by ozzelot@mstdn.social
2025-10-15T11:30:23Z
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@foone I was gonna say "somewhere around bed leveling", but I now see the error of my ways
(DIR) Post #AzERCy2K0gIISEjkJs by foone@digipres.club
2025-10-15T11:31:13Z
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I'm printing a calibration cube because I don't know what state I left this printer in.presumably in the standard state of "it kinda works but I don't trust it"
(DIR) Post #AzERNZkgdh9yK5XxBY by foone@digipres.club
2025-10-15T11:33:10Z
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crashed my slicer again
(DIR) Post #AzERbkxVlkhl8PJ6i8 by foone@digipres.club
2025-10-15T11:35:43Z
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third attempt worked.
(DIR) Post #AzERlMwNvHw7XVMchU by kate@federatedfandom.net
2025-10-15T11:37:28Z
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@foone I wonder if my brother has enough footage of his 3d printer bailing out to make a little vid to the birds and the bees again and again about this phenomenon...
(DIR) Post #AzESQ24iPDXAhNeNBg by foone@digipres.club
2025-10-15T11:44:50Z
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I probably should have updated octoprint before hitting go, and I probably should have done some manually leveling, but hey, it seems to be printing so far.
(DIR) Post #AzESZNsMiiHUv2KhSi by foone@digipres.club
2025-10-15T11:46:32Z
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also the filament has been sitting in a garage, loaded into the printer, for a year.it's probably really shit by now. as soon as the cube finishes I'm gonna need to swap to something, anything, else
(DIR) Post #AzESkiqD71Gf7vjPCi by fraggle@social.coop
2025-10-15T11:48:26Z
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@foone have you tried laser cutting, it's super fun
(DIR) Post #AzESo96VvKH9RszQ36 by foone@digipres.club
2025-10-15T11:49:16Z
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@fraggle yeah, at one of my previous jobs we had a glowforge and I used it for some fun prototyping
(DIR) Post #AzESubkkJw8A2UtCIC by foone@digipres.club
2025-10-15T11:49:40Z
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@fraggle I also partially melted a floppy disk because the fucker can't aim straight
(DIR) Post #AzESyE9I1QrNzU5xeC by revk@toot.me.uk
2025-10-15T11:50:00Z
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@foone A filament baker is not a bad idea too.
(DIR) Post #AzET4Y0f5osVKF4bce by foone@digipres.club
2025-10-15T11:52:07Z
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@revk eh this filament is nearly out, I'm just gonna toss it. I've got plenty of unopened filament that's still good
(DIR) Post #AzETCXZAcpbOGc1edM by foone@digipres.club
2025-10-15T11:53:34Z
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there's a lot of work that can and should be done on this printer, but it's all gonna be limited by the fact I can't stand up for more than 5 minutes
(DIR) Post #AzETcHytC2URSYKjIm by foone@digipres.club
2025-10-15T11:58:14Z
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@ceemage correct, yeah
(DIR) Post #AzEUlHtmy609lTnoVE by fraggle@social.coop
2025-10-15T12:11:00Z
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@foone sometimes I wonder how long it took Johannes Gutenberg to achieve what he did and how many others went insane trying
(DIR) Post #AzEVYSr31WTHvuyB2O by foone@digipres.club
2025-10-15T12:19:54Z
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@fraggle one thing is constant ever from their invention: printers have driven people mad
(DIR) Post #AzEXWyaMHIX1fpa6c4 by foone@digipres.club
2025-10-15T12:42:01Z
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well, there's something going on with the z-axis, but it printed more or less.
(DIR) Post #AzEXfEOLOX8v0ptjyC by Nine@chitter.xyz
2025-10-15T12:43:29Z
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@foone that's probably slight delamination. Possible the head is calibrated slightly too far away from the print bed.
(DIR) Post #AzEXjOVhiQKTYNKGGG by rallias@hax.social
2025-10-15T12:42:49Z
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@foone Did it turn into the N axis?
(DIR) Post #AzEXjPuuUC5Nuq7uBk by foone@digipres.club
2025-10-15T12:44:08Z
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@rallias I hate it when my dimensions rotate through the 4th dimension!
(DIR) Post #AzEXnhyJIgrH4PlNQ0 by jimp@masto.ai
2025-10-15T12:45:04Z
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@foone Looks like underextrusion, which could be any number of things, but it could easily just be the filament degraded sitting there so long.
(DIR) Post #AzEXrRpTGBdcABPaqm by foone@digipres.club
2025-10-15T12:45:19Z
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@Nine that's after a raft, so I'm not sure it's indicative of bed issues. The calibration distance is likely, I seem to recall it's insane on this printer (you have to calibrate it on the touchscreen, then reverse-calibrate it in the gcode? something like that?)
(DIR) Post #AzEY9Ae7suZO5FYYFM by foone@digipres.club
2025-10-15T12:49:01Z
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I've also got to switch to a different power supply for the pi that's running octoprint, and upgrade the pi to a new OS (which requires backing up and restoring existing octopi settings) because my python is EOL.so it's working, but I'm still sighing a lot
(DIR) Post #AzEYDgqC7yav5lM8vo by foone@digipres.club
2025-10-15T12:49:27Z
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anyway I loaded new filament and I'm printing a chep cube again!
(DIR) Post #AzEYFr6ovDVvW8AJRw by Nine@chitter.xyz
2025-10-15T12:49:18Z
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@foone yeah my neptune 4 used to have this issue. I actually nearly destroyed an entire printhead before I realised the issue I'd caused by pushing the head too close to the bed. The rafts LOOKED fine but because it was too close, as it extruded, material progressively oozed up around the nozzle, causing slight adhesion of freshly printed parts to the nozzle as it moved, causing lifting in places as well as it pulled apart the still not fully set layers a little... Eventually I got the blob of death. Had to replace the whole printhead x.x
(DIR) Post #AzEZ9j0uCv1ycu2V9c by foone@digipres.club
2025-10-15T13:00:14Z
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@Nine that sounds very likely to be my issue, yeah.
(DIR) Post #AzEZqPbwDorOtziREW by Argonel@dice.camp
2025-10-15T13:03:26Z
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@jimp @foone I would agree with this assessment. I would also suggest switching from the chep cube to the Cali Cat model for these basic function tests.
(DIR) Post #AzEZqQPDGcH9Moln2O by foone@digipres.club
2025-10-15T13:07:53Z
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@Argonel @jimp for any technical reasons, or just because it's way cuter?
(DIR) Post #AzEagsBVENaea1Ml9s by jimp@masto.ai
2025-10-15T13:17:17Z
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@foone @Argonel It tests more things than the cube does, and it's better than benchy for certain tests, but if you're just looking for a basic dimensional and flow test the cube is still good.If you aren't yet interested in diagnosing things like overhangs and so on then I'd just keep running the cube until you sort out the extrusion issue(s).The CaliCat is definitely cuter, though, and easier to pass off to people instead of throwing out.
(DIR) Post #AzEbShjjNZik4nBSee by foone@digipres.club
2025-10-15T13:26:07Z
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@jimp @Argonel well I'm sold
(DIR) Post #AzEdBvOJYgiNPWIEFM by Argonel@dice.camp
2025-10-15T13:45:27Z
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@foone @jimp purely for appearance. It becomes plastic trash that is worth looking at vs boring plastic trash.
(DIR) Post #AzEh9m21ml0lcW6AGe by foone@digipres.club
2025-10-15T14:29:52Z
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wow it's terrible
(DIR) Post #AzEhDAxjY9wtoIiDMu by ann3nova@corteximplant.com
2025-10-15T14:30:15Z
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@foone Looks badass, though.
(DIR) Post #AzEhHFud5WnIJwCo9g by thevhswizard@retro.pizza
2025-10-15T14:30:50Z
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@foone X gonna give it to you. And by "it", I mean, whatever that is.
(DIR) Post #AzEhOsjf8w4OktiEEK by kawa@mas.to
2025-10-15T14:32:42Z
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@foone Oh, I have one of those. Mine's blue.It's kind of an heirloom from my dad.
(DIR) Post #AzEi30Om4Tgg6b4g5o by scruss@xoxo.zone
2025-10-15T14:39:47Z
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@foone under-extrusion can do that
(DIR) Post #AzEiXhpV9ynPUZDOSG by foone@digipres.club
2025-10-15T14:45:29Z
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@kawa your dad was a 3d printerer?
(DIR) Post #AzEintpuHtgBMZ7tTc by kawa@mas.to
2025-10-15T14:48:24Z
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@foone He dabbled. I helped blender up some simple models for some of his projects, and he got me a green scale model of the #Asspull3X. Which is *slightly* peelable compared to the cube, Grogu, and prototype device faceplate, and the only green print of his that I have, so that's interesting.I wonder who got his printer?
(DIR) Post #AzEjp8nKG4P8014hKC by gsuberland@chaos.social
2025-10-15T14:59:44Z
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@foone ah, 3D printing. it's like being into denial kink without being into denial kink.
(DIR) Post #AzEl46T7Hvg55EJwLQ by momo@social.linux.pizza
2025-10-15T15:13:39Z
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@fooneWell, I expect nothing less from X...
(DIR) Post #AzEnhomudyStjte4NE by foone@digipres.club
2025-10-15T15:43:20Z
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okay I printed a CE5P calicat after attempting to fix the z-offset issue. It still is horrible. possibly this is mostly a temperature issue: I'm using the stock temperatures but I think I upgraded this to an all-metal hotend that needs to run higher?
(DIR) Post #AzEnn6N2hOfBie42aW by foone@digipres.club
2025-10-15T15:44:14Z
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include the photo, foone
(DIR) Post #AzEnrA8YdaoKYhE1zs by LunaFoxgirlVT@mastodon.gamedev.place
2025-10-15T15:44:48Z
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@foone looks a bit like a minced beef cube
(DIR) Post #AzEo5Rq5cOU3VzOnDc by Canageek@wandering.shop
2025-10-15T15:47:36Z
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@foone You probably just need to dry it out, right? I know the engineers I work with dried their filament most of the time here, and we live in a near desert with tumbleweed and rattlesnakes (not joking)
(DIR) Post #AzEo8dbkJqessqD8Lo by foone@digipres.club
2025-10-15T15:47:48Z
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@LunaFoxgirlVT doesn't taste like it, though
(DIR) Post #AzEoC2iRQOO1chxxa4 by LunaFoxgirlVT@mastodon.gamedev.place
2025-10-15T15:48:25Z
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@foone and much crunchier
(DIR) Post #AzEoFKMWGw43DnHKjY by foone@digipres.club
2025-10-15T15:48:33Z
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@Canageek probably, but there was so little left on the reel that I just tossed it and swapped to an unopened filament
(DIR) Post #AzEoJ5peEkoDJbhNz6 by accela@libretooth.gr
2025-10-15T15:49:47Z
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@foone Yeah it looks like either low temperature or high flow. But in both cases the extruder should have been loudly clicking.
(DIR) Post #AzEoMQT7xyn4Bhkp7Y by Canageek@wandering.shop
2025-10-15T15:49:50Z
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@foone as that makes sense.
(DIR) Post #AzEoZ1i1KllBA3jFGS by tekhedd@byteheaven.net
2025-10-15T15:52:51Z
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@foone what a fascinating texture. almost maakes me wonder if you have a clog?
(DIR) Post #AzEpQL9Fn2JinatA3s by foone@digipres.club
2025-10-15T16:02:08Z
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@jf_718 This red filament is brand new, I only unsealed it before doing these two prints
(DIR) Post #AzEpTcN6D70l5JvaKG by milchmonster@girlcock.club
2025-10-15T16:01:41Z
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@foone i start ranting before i even touch a slicer. rarely i find are the models shared for 3d printing any good so i have to fight a CAD tool for a bit, before i even look at my printer again
(DIR) Post #AzEpTdOCQVUAF1RygC by foone@digipres.club
2025-10-15T16:02:27Z
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@milchmonster oh I'm not looking forward to having to 3d model anything. ugh.
(DIR) Post #AzEpYHI80tkn9apCCW by foone@digipres.club
2025-10-15T16:03:31Z
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@sudo_EatPant yeah they're a summoning circle. 3d printing is forbidden magic
(DIR) Post #AzEq28VFFl4saICJ84 by foone@digipres.club
2025-10-15T16:09:22Z
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@jf_718 no worries. that's what I'm doing now, yeah: I bumped up the temperature to 210C and lowered the retraction distance a little. it's printing now
(DIR) Post #AzEq6lhDTaBTIX0Q8O by jimp@masto.ai
2025-10-15T16:10:16Z
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@foone @jf_718 Unfortunately it's possible to get wet filament straight from the original vacuum sealed bags. They use water to cool it when making the filament, so it can retain moisture straight from the factory.But this does seem more like something impeding the extrusion more than the filament itself since it seems to be somewhat consistent with both types.Wouldn't hurt to do a cold pull/atomic pull to make sure there isn't a partial clog since it sat for a while.
(DIR) Post #AzErB62fs6cvVqfcTA by exmotoh@fgc.network
2025-10-15T16:19:18.484369Z
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I hope you dont mind further randos comingbin and asking qs and offering advice - when you switched the hotend, did you run a new PID tune cycle for it?
(DIR) Post #AzErB7GXK3JFJ8ACiO by foone@digipres.club
2025-10-15T16:22:12Z
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@exmotoh I don't recall, that was a long while ago
(DIR) Post #AzErHn6wehd2pGrOF6 by foone@digipres.club
2025-10-15T16:23:30Z
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@exmotoh octoprint is showing pretty stable and accurate temperatures, so I think I must have
(DIR) Post #AzEummmwClkwfGyNwO by foone@digipres.club
2025-10-15T17:02:25Z
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reprinted with higher temp. it's better, but still bad.so probably there's another issue. I remember I did a lot of rebuilding of the hot end in the final days of using this before, so who knows what's clogged in there? I printed on a raft because the z-offset is still fuckt
(DIR) Post #AzEvDTeJTJEH7mfMlk by philnelson@xoxo.zone
2025-10-15T17:07:27Z
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@foone Looks like an extrusion issue to me, yeah
(DIR) Post #AzEwJVWLWh7OcXNYxM by foone@digipres.club
2025-10-15T17:19:38Z
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@gbrnt it is a creality (ender 5 plus/pro, I don't recall which) but I believe I've replaced the extruder hardware
(DIR) Post #AzEyxt3LeXpZ62CJlI by plaidtron3000@jorts.horse
2025-10-15T17:49:26Z
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@foone I think you need to stop trying to print with ground beef.
(DIR) Post #AzF1ezxw1kpEtcLnI8 by tekhedd@byteheaven.net
2025-10-15T18:19:40Z
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@foone @gbrnt The way it goes away and comes back still says "clog" to me. Something in the hotend that clears for a bit on a retraction, then sticks again? Either that or the extruder gears are dirty on one side and slip?Or you have some really unpredictable filament, but that seems unlikely.
(DIR) Post #AzFNTUDXvLtOEkZITg by Plan_A_to_Y@furry.engineer
2025-10-15T22:24:04Z
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@foone a few random things that might help: -gently tug the filament line to make sure that it takes as little force as possible to pull it off the spool-check the extruder tension (haven't seen what kind your printer has but there should be some kind of idler gear-bump up the extrusion multiplier a few percent if none of that works-If the Z level is too low it can create what looks like a clog so maybe try raising it higher than you'd think? I dunno, that depends a lot on how you have been calibrating it. -Printing a flat 1-layer square to check how much it's squishing the filament is probably the best way to test Z axis calibration
(DIR) Post #AzG1HvaYKUlfonNAX2 by lordsplodge@brettspiel.space
2025-10-16T05:50:08Z
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@foone The forbidden cat.
(DIR) Post #AzGg3vYljh85nNytA8 by foone@digipres.club
2025-10-16T13:27:06Z
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a higher temp (220°C) and 110% flow rate seems to be working well enough.
(DIR) Post #AzGhZgAeaSp3HwPD7Y by foone@digipres.club
2025-10-16T13:43:59Z
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had to dig out my flir phone to take pictures for silly cellphone reasons.Anyway, this is the 220°C 110% flow calicat. It looks way better, right?
(DIR) Post #AzGhkZFGg0aQzikvWi by foone@digipres.club
2025-10-16T13:45:26Z
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So I foolishly started a 9-hour print and yeah it's still shit.
(DIR) Post #AzGhyFUUv4dTmWP3zs by foone@digipres.club
2025-10-16T13:48:33Z
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also octoprint is yelling that my pi is undervolting. I'm specifically using a dedicated 5v 2.5A wall-wart, how is it STILL undervolting? ugh.
(DIR) Post #AzGi1sJz0Our54DLLU by foone@digipres.club
2025-10-16T13:48:58Z
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I need to throw away and replace every part of this setup and I don't have the time, money, energy, or space to do that
(DIR) Post #AzGi7xuX8X9y9bDM9o by bayindirh@mastodon.sdf.org
2025-10-16T13:50:16Z
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@foone Why not step by step? Do you need the printer urgently?
(DIR) Post #AzGiBlwpYZDyD46WVE by foone@digipres.club
2025-10-16T13:50:47Z
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@bayindirh I need to print a case for something and I can't really use it until I do, so... kinda?
(DIR) Post #AzGiNiDPGCB86lYD4q by wolfensteijn@urface.social
2025-10-16T13:52:24Z
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@foone Could also be a clog in the nozzle.And all those issues are reasons why I shelled out for a Bambulab printer over 2 years ago. That thing just works.
(DIR) Post #AzGiPgB9nmryN7R8Vc by bayindirh@mastodon.sdf.org
2025-10-16T13:52:00Z
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@foone Uh, OK. Fair.
(DIR) Post #AzGiazRiVXdbJTZl8y by uint8_t@chaos.social
2025-10-16T13:53:33Z
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@foone raspberry can’t do power, and their usb-c designs are not standards compliant 😐
(DIR) Post #AzGifrHuGdEXSVJBmS by ei8gvb@mastodon.radio
2025-10-16T13:52:34Z
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@foone which model Raspberry Pi is it? The 4B, for instance, really needs a minimum of 3A.
(DIR) Post #AzGifs1zVI63lQrzc0 by foone@digipres.club
2025-10-16T13:55:01Z
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@ei8gvb It's a Pi 3B
(DIR) Post #AzGim7Rv5lmnJuyfFw by foone@digipres.club
2025-10-16T13:55:35Z
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@uint8_t this one is so non-standard it's micro-USB! :)
(DIR) Post #AzGiqLxX5QkVTpmbuC by foone@digipres.club
2025-10-16T13:56:59Z
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@wolfensteijn my roommate keeps threatening to pick up one of those. one of these days I'll have to agree with her and throw this one in a lake
(DIR) Post #AzGiuLcAJH0xZNh320 by grajohnt@chaos.social
2025-10-16T13:58:24Z
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@foone it has been a while since I used octoprint, but many people (including me) noted that it caused unexplained issues with printing. If possible (and if you haven't already), try printing the same file directly without octoprint and see if it works?
(DIR) Post #AzGj6OkUTyWolWKkDY by foone@digipres.club
2025-10-16T14:01:03Z
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@grajohnt I've done hundreds of hours of printing with octoprint on this printer before, so I don't think that's an issue here
(DIR) Post #AzGjd61x67u6Gf5oLw by foone@digipres.club
2025-10-16T14:07:03Z
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Thanks to everyone who has given suggestions for how to fix this. Unfortunately most of them require me standing up for longer than I can manage, so I've mainly just fiddled with settings (since I can do that from my bed). but when I can, I'll be:* calibrating the extruder* trying to clear clogs in the hot-end* calibrating the z-axis offset (which is a multistep nightmare in this setup)
(DIR) Post #AzGjrqAkLA1NQcEjxI by scruss@xoxo.zone
2025-10-16T14:09:43Z
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@foone ugh indeed: sorry you're dealing with this. If I weren't in another country, I'd print the thing for youRaspberry Pi power supplies are weird: the micro USB variants are specced at 5.1V / 2.5A DC.
(DIR) Post #AzGjz3YcyNiuy7qcjo by foone@digipres.club
2025-10-16T14:11:02Z
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I need to upgrade the octopi install so I might switch to a newer pi. I have one somewhere, it's just probably up in my office where I can't really get to it (stairs)
(DIR) Post #AzGmKkfM5jM6enT2oq by rolenthedeep@rattodon.nexus
2025-10-16T14:37:21Z
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@fooneIt is apparently too difficult for mastodon to show me replies to this exact message, but in case no one else said it, this error is because your printer is drawing a lot of current over the USB cable. You have to isolate the Vcc pin with some tape or paper, or cut the red wire.It's one of the dumbest things I've ever heard
(DIR) Post #AzGnCzdsctPYk5dqvA by foone@digipres.club
2025-10-16T14:47:06Z
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@julie this is quite fresh filament, though! I opened it yesterday
(DIR) Post #AzGnGNpr8Jlke2rNk8 by foone@digipres.club
2025-10-16T14:47:51Z
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@rolenthedeep I think I've already fixed that in the past, but maybe it broke somehow?
(DIR) Post #AzGnQU9KVpIx7imm0W by foone@digipres.club
2025-10-16T14:49:34Z
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@nmaggioni this is a freshly opened filament, though! I just opened it yesterday. Surely it can't degrade THAT fast?
(DIR) Post #AzGp6R3UVT8ldyccCG by foone@digipres.club
2025-10-16T15:08:18Z
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@nmaggioni Nah, that was the white filament that I tossed out (there wasn't much of it left, so I didn't think it was worth baking it)
(DIR) Post #AzGuDLdJZ2IGcoUerQ by ppxl@social.tchncs.de
2025-10-16T16:05:35Z
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@foone I have that too in a Raspi 3 I think...it works okay though while printing because the undervolting happens during startup and iirc the flag isn't cleared? My problem was a too thin cable too. After replacing it was better, not fully away but way betterAnd getting a good cable shouldn't be your problem because of the many USB cables you own, right, right?
(DIR) Post #AzH2HDNczQeLovVkB6 by tekhedd@byteheaven.net
2025-10-16T17:35:51Z
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@foone Yeah mine does this too. I don't know probably just whining about a single transient.
(DIR) Post #AzH6SAUqS11TsZMhv6 by tekhedd@byteheaven.net
2025-10-16T18:22:45Z
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@foone I know you can't work to debug this right now, but that's surely either a clog or slipping extruder gears.My recurring clogging was solved by a coated stainless nozzle. FWIW. I hated paying that much for a nozzle but when I go back to cheap, I get clogs. :)
(DIR) Post #AzH8uBMv09qubJ8xaC by foone@digipres.club
2025-10-16T18:50:06Z
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@tekhedd I replaced the nozzle right before going on 3d printing hiatus, but it's entirely possible there's still a clog. neither that nor the extruder is something I can really work on now, sadly.
(DIR) Post #AzH9U2gyjnla7Gcryq by tekhedd@byteheaven.net
2025-10-16T18:56:44Z
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@foone aw dang. 3D printing is an equation with too many variables.
(DIR) Post #AzKB1uaq2TemGuLcIq by foone@digipres.club
2025-10-18T05:58:11Z
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installed a USB power blocker to try and fix the undervolting. it didn't work. So I'm gonna have to find another power supply for that
(DIR) Post #AzKB5C8BI3wlX6VbxQ by foone@digipres.club
2025-10-18T05:58:39Z
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I'm gonna try cold pulling next because that's easier than getting to the extruder
(DIR) Post #AzKBcPZKLk5ClY2rdA by moira@mastodon.murkworks.net
2025-10-18T06:04:50Z
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@foone I'm late to this but your first one is also definitely what I would do first, along with checking to make sure there is not some sort of unexpected wear on the gearing of the extruder, and also (and possibly most of all) checking for bending or cracks in plastic parts of the extruder assembly.I was having issues similar to this some time ago which vanished with an all-metal extruder; the plastic spring-loaded pressure lever either had deformed or had developed a crack I couldn't see by eye and so feed was intermittent, meaning it was _also_ miscalibrated since you can't calibrate reasonably against an unstable extruder.(My tipoff to the invisible plastic failure was that calibration attempts had lost any sense of consistency.)
(DIR) Post #AzKCcnYLHFap6bKh6m by foone@digipres.club
2025-10-18T06:15:59Z
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@cinebox yeah
(DIR) Post #AzKCiKqGw6jvnXMMAy by foone@digipres.club
2025-10-18T06:17:08Z
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@moira I've got this extruder, I think, so it's already all-metal:https://www.amazon.com/Creality-Official-3D-Extruders-Accessories/dp/B092HKZMQM?th=1
(DIR) Post #AzKClldXlq7Rlk2hPM by foone@digipres.club
2025-10-18T06:17:21Z
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@cazabon I'll have to try that, yeah
(DIR) Post #AzKDg3vyvcZ4jZVhgG by moira@mastodon.murkworks.net
2025-10-18T06:27:56Z
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@foone Yes. That one is fine.Make sure the filament driving wheels are fully tightened down (which may be a thing depending upon exactly which one of that you got, they ship two kinds as the same model because of _course_ they do) and check for any excessive visible wear, of which there should be none.[thinks about it]If that's a difficulty, which it may be for standing reasons, then skip that and go straight to this:Remove the bowden tube from the extruderCut off the filament where it leaves the extruder.Have the extruder send 100mm of filament. Cut it off each time where it comes out of the extruder.Repeat 3-4 times.If all your samples match each other in length, you're probably good to calibrate the extruder.
(DIR) Post #AzKFfiU4sYqE7GQB8K by foone@digipres.club
2025-10-18T06:50:15Z
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okay I tried switching to a different USB power supply (5v 2A) with thicker usb cables: No difference, still undervolting.I also cold-pulled the hot end a few times, to see if that'll help.
(DIR) Post #AzKFit4LyqJnoWtut6 by foone@digipres.club
2025-10-18T06:50:24Z
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the extruder is still difficult to reach
(DIR) Post #AzKFtNCenXBAAVmj4a by foone@digipres.club
2025-10-18T06:52:46Z
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printing another calicat to see if that changed anything
(DIR) Post #AzKPX31w7Qd8m3lP1c by phaseseeker@mastodon.uno
2025-10-18T08:40:42Z
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@foone For what it's worth, I have an RPi 3 running OSMC that's been complaining of undervolting pretty much its entire existance but has always worked perfectly fine, so...
(DIR) Post #AzKUhuEre42mSpo7W4 by casandro@f-ckendehoelle.de
2025-10-18T09:38:41Z
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@foone You can power Raspberry PIs through the pin header. This might be much more reliable since USB never was meant for that use case. Also newer Raspberry PIs expect 5.1 Volts.
(DIR) Post #AzKUosXENVQFCtit7Y by foone@digipres.club
2025-10-18T09:39:57Z
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@casandro This is a Pi3. I think before I try any more weird power supply stuff, I'll just swap to a Pi4/Pi5 (I have one, I just haven't been able to go get it yet) which uses a different power connector.
(DIR) Post #AzKZOGwa1BUArUiDxY by foone@digipres.club
2025-10-18T10:31:10Z
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okay I think my extruder is fucked. damn it, that's the most annoying part of this printer to access.
(DIR) Post #AzKZPuT0YeRBjJf31k by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-10-18T10:31:57Z
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@foone This is the worst print I've ever seen.
(DIR) Post #AzKZxbXVR6HasCpdZ2 by sashabilton@mastodon.gamedev.place
2025-10-18T10:37:32Z
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@foone you may well have tried all these, butMax the hotend temperature and push filament through the nozzleHeat nozzle, move hotend to the highest position and use a cleaning needle from the bottom up. Use new, sealed filament. Moisture is an absolute nozzle killer. I never use "old" filament without drying it first, and mostly dispose of it. This has been a game changer.
(DIR) Post #AzKaATwazEVf56hwSe by StarkRG@myside-yourside.net
2025-10-18T10:39:02Z
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@futurebird @foone Yes, but It *did* finish, so it's got that going for it.
(DIR) Post #AzKaAVHY0orbENWBl2 by foone@digipres.club
2025-10-18T10:39:40Z
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@StarkRG @futurebird that's the annoying state my printer has been stuck in for over a year.it WILL print the thing you want, it'll just be really shitty and fragile
(DIR) Post #AzKb0UvMaUlLBBvzma by byteborg@chaos.social
2025-10-18T10:49:20Z
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@foone acupuncture needle entered the chat...
(DIR) Post #AzKbOa9qmSSuMTC98y by foone@digipres.club
2025-10-18T10:53:37Z
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@michelv I've got plenty of filaments but while most of it is sealed, it's pretty old. maybe I should pick up a new roll before I test again
(DIR) Post #AzKbuxQDox5LmRI3ns by michelv@oisaur.com
2025-10-18T10:58:36Z
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@foone could also be a faulty PTFE tube. Is your printer using a Bowden setup (I assume it is since the extruder is hard to access?). I once fell deep into a rabbit hole, tweaking settings left and right because I thought the printer had started malfunctioning, until I realized it really was the tube that needed changing.
(DIR) Post #AzKbuyWzhG63DjSyzw by foone@digipres.club
2025-10-18T10:59:31Z
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@michelv it does use a bowden tube, yeah. I definitely replaced it at some point, I think I replaced it with a better one? it seems to be in good condition, though
(DIR) Post #AzKeyaTbNCandYIGqu by guyjantic@infosec.exchange
2025-10-18T11:34:12Z
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@futurebird @foone Oh, wow. You're in for an experience, then.
(DIR) Post #AzKgQP1pd6NiC78EEq by foone@digipres.club
2025-10-18T11:49:50Z
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@blue_on I specifically already replaced the fans on this printer, so they're quite fresh at the moment.
(DIR) Post #AzKvS54wGxE0DEqLjc by jimp@masto.ai
2025-10-18T14:38:19Z
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@foone @blue_on Are the new fans keeping up well enough? I made the mistake once of putting a Noctua fan on my hotend because it was quieter but it didn't have enough static pressure to cool it properly so I kept getting heat creep (which can also present like you're seeing). Basically the top part of the hotend gets too hot so it melts up higher than it should and gets bound up, then pushes past it with more effort.That was unfun to diagnose and maddening.
(DIR) Post #AzL9eXdnIsL9d6yymG by encthenet@flyovercountry.social
2025-10-18T17:17:19Z
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@fooneHave you tried printing slower?I think I found that different filaments take a different amount of energy to heat up. So a speed that works for one filament might not work for another. Increasing the temp only ensures that it starts out ok, but doesn't ensure that it stays at temp. (I never did test this theory by monitoring the hot end temp as it printed.)Have you tried slowing down the print speed?
(DIR) Post #AzMuqqI8fzTDx8BGgC by foone@digipres.club
2025-10-19T13:41:02Z
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well there's your problem!
(DIR) Post #AzMuy3UK0hoauMJoEC by aurora@toot.queer-lexikon.net
2025-10-19T13:42:21Z
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@foone love seeing the part and immediately going "oh! that looks like some Ender/Creality bs!"
(DIR) Post #AzMv1HryzpZuNevWsK by foone@digipres.club
2025-10-19T13:42:54Z
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@aurora it sure is!
(DIR) Post #AzMvJi0IZKmoe9bIO0 by darkling@mstdn.social
2025-10-19T13:46:18Z
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@foone Ouch. That's... not healthy.
(DIR) Post #AzMzQ4BvOALP0wKFvs by jimp@masto.ai
2025-10-19T14:32:14Z
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@foone Yikes!Is it one with a grub screw you can easily replace or is it glued on?
(DIR) Post #AzNpGlAvupex2zkHBo by foone@digipres.club
2025-10-20T00:12:33Z
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@jimp it's glued on!
(DIR) Post #AzNpmDcKDgE6EdYgc4 by jimp@masto.ai
2025-10-20T00:18:56Z
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@foone Ugh! Might still be possible to change with a gear puller but those are a PITA. Last time I hit one of those I ended up replacing the whole damn stepper motor with one that wasn't stupid.
(DIR) Post #AzNvW8rCkUxCZ1EeyO by foone@digipres.club
2025-10-20T01:23:16Z
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new extruder motor has arrived. hopefully I'll be feeling well enough to install it sometime in the next decimillennium
(DIR) Post #AzO05bBjo1XeNq0CrQ by pyromuffin@mastodon.gamedev.place
2025-10-20T02:14:28Z
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@foone “if you truly hate someone, buy them a 3D printer.”
(DIR) Post #AzO0DE8vN7L7E5K8e0 by mathaetaes@infosec.exchange
2025-10-20T02:11:37Z
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@foone so o get that this is a project and I don’t mean to discourage you, because it’s awesome, but for the followers who want to 3D print without all this headache: buy a Bambu labs printer and make your printer a tool instead of a hobby.
(DIR) Post #AzO0DFAjXsNgPzB66S by foone@digipres.club
2025-10-20T02:15:56Z
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@mathaetaes it's on the todo, however, I'm broke
(DIR) Post #AzO5UlmQ3xzoF8yv1U by foone@digipres.club
2025-10-20T03:15:06Z
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new extruder (hardware & servo motor) installed, along with new bowden tube. lets see if this works
(DIR) Post #AzO5YXms1tOa0IzaDI by foone@digipres.club
2025-10-20T03:15:43Z
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pi has stopped reporting undervoltage. I haven't touched anything with that setup since yesterday. the fuck?
(DIR) Post #AzO5dBZi2dzaYt38gS by penny@eldritch.cafe
2025-10-20T03:16:36Z
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@foone it got better
(DIR) Post #AzO6InOaKY5JjVggXQ by cabbey@phpc.social
2025-10-20T03:24:06Z
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@foone my original pi2 or pi3 and the power supply I used with it was fine until you pushed the cpu with any kind of taxing compute job longer than 30 seconds or so…. Then it complained of under voltage. A swapped to a new no name supply and it dropped that to 5 seconds or less… third try was an Apple brick that would only rarely complain if I really pushed it hard for prolonged periods.
(DIR) Post #AzO7Fwmp3hL7waEJvM by foone@digipres.club
2025-10-20T03:34:49Z
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@Fuzz_Ra as a californian I'm always willing to blame PG&E (delenda est). not only do they destroy cities, they also fuck up my 3d prints!
(DIR) Post #AzOA1d3rtnSAZm4EFc by jimp@masto.ai
2025-10-20T04:05:52Z
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@foone Did you unplug something or turn off something like a camera? Or lessen the load?I had one that would do that but only when the camera was plugged in. Also at some point I had to cover the power pin on the USB cable to that printer because it fed the control board over USB and wouldn't turn off.
(DIR) Post #AzOB9zBTdBMbSXAthw by foone@digipres.club
2025-10-20T04:18:07Z
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@jimp nope. didn't touch anything
(DIR) Post #AzOCezND4qnyyf0gW8 by foone@digipres.club
2025-10-20T04:35:18Z
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Seems pretty good.My z-alignment is still fucked. I printed this on a raft because I knew it still was, but the raft was nearly impossible to remove. it was WELDED to the build plate.
(DIR) Post #AzODlW8aH2msHjqV84 by foone@digipres.club
2025-10-20T04:47:47Z
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I'm not sure if I need to adjust my z-offset in the ender 5 plus's touchscreen or if that only applies to printing natively with the printer, and I need to change it in my slicer. or in octoprint! there's a lot of places! (there's too many fucking places!)
(DIR) Post #AzODsReJMM4QOMzOds by foone@digipres.club
2025-10-20T04:49:02Z
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and keep in mind that's me saying it as someone who has made it their livelong profession and hobby of touching computers as much as I can. I love a bunch of little places to change things. I love being able to fiddle with settings. 3d printing has too many settings
(DIR) Post #AzODvXTIAXL5JnJJ7g by EMR@mastodon.sdf.org
2025-10-20T04:49:30Z
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@foone That kept happening and I know there are products for it but I ended up just covering the build plate with painter's tape.
(DIR) Post #AzOE6tYGPpcWz53Dc0 by foone@digipres.club
2025-10-20T04:51:41Z
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@EMR I'm more worried that my nozzle is trying to scrape grooves into my buildplate. seems with painters tape I'd just rip up the tape AND the buildplate
(DIR) Post #AzOEHX1oUtp8JYwcfA by EMR@mastodon.sdf.org
2025-10-20T04:53:26Z
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@foone ah yeah I have a nice divot in my build plate as well.
(DIR) Post #AzOEwg0c0pce2Z0BSS by alex02@ieji.de
2025-10-20T05:00:56Z
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@foone when nerds say something has too many settings... it fucking does.
(DIR) Post #AzOF9XZEi1sjckKaZs by foone@digipres.club
2025-10-20T05:03:22Z
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@alex02 exactly! I am an autistic programmer nerd here! It's hard to get more "loves settings" than me!AND YET...
(DIR) Post #AzOatRPA3FecryLZIW by bloognoo@retro.pizza
2025-10-20T09:06:44Z
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@foone the old stepper shorting coils and pulling too much juice?
(DIR) Post #AzOeBGr6JPghE5bono by foone@digipres.club
2025-10-20T09:43:44Z
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fiddled with my z-offset calibration. tried measuring the build plate: that was a mistake. The thing is bent as fuck. but it does do a 4x4 grid for level so maybe it can compensate enough for that to not be a huge problem. Lets see, time for another 9 hour print!
(DIR) Post #AzOejqZs0LpdrW2Kbg by bayindirh@mastodon.sdf.org
2025-10-20T09:49:58Z
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@foone > Lets see, time for another 9 hour print!May the 3D printing gods be with you this time!
(DIR) Post #AzOgyDHOazXuEYNDNI by grajohnt@chaos.social
2025-10-20T10:14:56Z
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@foone a shift in the ley lines obv. Or possibly a change in neutrino flux.
(DIR) Post #AzOhZxXxXRBMRY7U48 by foone@digipres.club
2025-10-20T10:21:47Z
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@grajohnt I'm gonna have to reroute the warp plasma or calibrate the oscillation of the neutron flow
(DIR) Post #AzOitunvXnzpgRfTsG by grajohnt@chaos.social
2025-10-20T10:36:37Z
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@foone don't forget the 3D Print Quality Dance! Very important.
(DIR) Post #AzOj0CbgGfvodOwCvo by foone@digipres.club
2025-10-20T10:37:48Z
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@grajohnt can't dance, mostly bedridden. that's probably why I'm having so many problems, I'm not doing the rituals right
(DIR) Post #AzOvJFeGNlB31Izmam by foone@digipres.club
2025-10-20T12:55:37Z
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it failed. it did a couple layers and then clogged. I went in there and the hot end was just hovering over the beginning of the print, while the extruder clicked.
(DIR) Post #AzOvdxUP5mDkmYG2UK by foone@digipres.club
2025-10-20T12:59:23Z
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and the undervolting is back. while the octopi isn't even connected to the printer (because I accidentally left the USB disconnected)
(DIR) Post #AzPDN4sMAuwnwUYtDk by bytex64@awesome.garden
2025-10-20T16:17:54Z
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@foone My Ender 3 has a fairly dished bed. Manual mesh bed leveling was a pain in the ass, but it solved pretty much all my bed adhesion problems.
(DIR) Post #AzPKp3bNCjX1mLuGtU by foone@digipres.club
2025-10-20T17:41:28Z
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Okay I thought I fixed the clog and turned up the print temp and did another Calicat. At the end of the print, the webcam showed nothing there. I watched the time-lapse, and yep. No filament at all came out.So I've got something way more broken than just a low temperature
(DIR) Post #AzPMwqycECBkqcci2a by log@mastodon.sdf.org
2025-10-20T18:05:18Z
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@foone When I had that problem I had to tighten the nozzle against the thermal break (while hot) and clean out the through-hole with a needle.
(DIR) Post #AzQegZ6KuhF76jZrKS by gunstick@mastodon.opencloud.lu
2025-10-21T08:58:41Z
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@foone when do you know that there are too many settings? When you have a search engine in the settings!
(DIR) Post #AzWBU2X4Rip0trW7CC by foone@digipres.club
2025-10-24T00:59:50Z
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replaced the filament that had snapped off just inside the extruder. it's printing again
(DIR) Post #AzWb5Nza7T6B1cl1Yu by foone@digipres.club
2025-10-24T05:46:46Z
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it made it like 3 hours into an 9-48 hour print and stopped extruding again. I bet it snapped off once more
(DIR) Post #AzWbLoZb3mmk67RA24 by foone@digipres.club
2025-10-24T05:49:46Z
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This bowden tube does seem kinda crap, but I wonder if it's my filament? this has only been open a week, but maybe it was just brittle to begin with
(DIR) Post #AzWbxE7p1N4U3oHjpw by sashabilton@mastodon.gamedev.place
2025-10-24T05:56:27Z
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@foone I bought "medical grade" Bowden tubing awhile back because it was much cheaper per metre than sold by 3D print places, but it wasn't good enough. If the weather has been humid, a week could be enough to mean you need to dry the filament.
(DIR) Post #AzWdc1SP7pGCb9vfDE by lilstevie@infosec.exchange
2025-10-24T06:02:06Z
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@foone fwiw ptfe is a consumable item as the filament does wear it down over time
(DIR) Post #AzWdc2qtwERwvQOk2C by foone@digipres.club
2025-10-24T06:14:57Z
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@lilstevie this is a fresh tube, I just thing it might be a real cheap one
(DIR) Post #AzWh5zDUJtQsCPvoxc by foone@digipres.club
2025-10-24T06:53:57Z
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swapped to a different brand of newer filament. lets see if this works any better
(DIR) Post #AzWkQMWhfCMs9EKKno by foone@digipres.club
2025-10-24T07:31:22Z
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NOPE! spaghetti after about 40 minutes
(DIR) Post #AzWkTeOFheoyQ5wSx6 by foone@digipres.club
2025-10-24T07:31:49Z
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3d printers yearn for the sea floor
(DIR) Post #AzWlS5LebQ91P6XncG by LewisWorkshop@mastodon.online
2025-10-24T07:42:20Z
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@foone have you considered it might just be haunted?
(DIR) Post #AzWlS6mzFHbPsAL8rI by foone@digipres.club
2025-10-24T07:42:52Z
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@LewisWorkshop I just assume all electronics in my house are haunted unless proven otherwise
(DIR) Post #AzWmKtGrCvL7sEQwts by kelsiraespace@mstdn.social
2025-10-24T07:52:43Z
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@foone 3d printers still being printers
(DIR) Post #AzWnqWtC3cEbgA125g by RonanLK@piaille.fr
2025-10-24T08:09:38Z
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@foone Me when I start a new coding project with the mindset "And this time, I'll make it clean"
(DIR) Post #AzWpIJEwUwqrPQzzkG by ozzelot@mstdn.social
2025-10-24T08:26:26Z
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@foone*stares at anet a8*
(DIR) Post #AzWq7NIdAGz2lh4e2q by Fonant@social.vivaldi.net
2025-10-24T08:35:04Z
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@foone Filament that has absorbed moisture from the air can become brittle. Drying the filament might well help.
(DIR) Post #AzWsViA7Rts6KapD8q by baiteh@layer8.space
2025-10-24T09:01:54Z
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@foone ALL printers surely!
(DIR) Post #AzWxcrNo43EMj7SHsu by Plan_A_to_Y@furry.engineer
2025-10-24T09:59:17Z
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@foone I went through the same issues as you've been having with an Ender 3 (similar Bowden tube printer) years ago when I first started.The only thing I can maybe recommend is getting a cube-shaped photo tent to put the printer in, having the printer in a warm, constant temperature can help. Also extrusion multiplier calibration and first layer calibration can be deceptive, if you're way too high extrusion or way too low first layer it'll look fine for a bit then clog badly.Outside of that it's just an extremely finicky mess to get a printer working consistently. I switched to a Prusa after my first year and never really looked back after that.
(DIR) Post #AzYABTZPz6PbcH7RJY by foone@digipres.club
2025-10-24T23:54:44Z
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here's what happened. Maybe this filament doesn't like the 220°C that I was running the other filament at, and I overheated it?
(DIR) Post #AzYALWIGiJryxUt2Zs by foone@digipres.club
2025-10-24T23:56:14Z
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here's what happened. Maybe this filament doesn't like the 220°C that I was running the other filament at, and I overheated it?
(DIR) Post #AzYBqJprBQ4LFdqb9E by _thegeoff@mastodon.social
2025-10-25T00:06:21Z
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@foone It's all offset by a similar degree - I've had something like that because of power/network interruptions, printer presumably keeps going on buffer but then picks up on "live" instructions that are seconds off.I always print from physical media given the option, printing via network introduces whole layers of failure options.
(DIR) Post #AzYBqL3MegT51pAtqC by foone@digipres.club
2025-10-25T00:13:20Z
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@_thegeoff this is over USB (not networked), but the pi is saying it has undervolting problems, so it may have blipped there.
(DIR) Post #AzYDArtMN5tgcaqfAG by log@mastodon.sdf.org
2025-10-25T00:28:11Z
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@foone That looks like it's randomly skipping move instructions to me. If a base with that shape is breaking loose from the bed, there is no shape that would stick, in which case the heated bed is probably not hot enough.Could test by putting the whole gcode on local storage before starting the print, to eliminate the pi undervolting from consideration.
(DIR) Post #AzYFjkgBNZeGIPRjmq by foone@digipres.club
2025-10-25T00:56:57Z
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@log could be. it's also possible my usb between them is glitching, it's badly placed (near motors) and not the best cable. I'd have expected Octoprint to have reported some kind of communication errors, though?putting it on local storage is a good idea, though. I needed to pull the SD for the pi anyway, so I can just grab both next I'm in there
(DIR) Post #AzYG3DvqqIMOWX3nHc by log@mastodon.sdf.org
2025-10-25T00:35:00Z
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@foone I had a move failure problem a while ago on just the Y axis. The result had a shear-line horizontal discontinuity at a random layer. Solved that by removing dust and re-lubing Y track and belt. So maybe also check that the force required to move the bed or print head along all axes is reasonable along the whole axis. If it's sticky at any point, that could create a shear line at best, or spaghetti at worst.
(DIR) Post #AzYG3FGnrsiKfns2a0 by foone@digipres.club
2025-10-25T01:00:26Z
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@log good idea. I don't know if I have lube handy, I'd have to order some, but this machine has been sitting unused in a dusty garage (it's also the laundry room, so the air can be lintious) for over a year, so it's probably gunked up a bit. the Z axis is a bit whiny-squeaky when it moves too.
(DIR) Post #AzYGMqHAVNwCwmNzKi by foone@digipres.club
2025-10-25T01:04:03Z
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the Principle of What Changed, however, says it's the filament:I printed like 10 CHEP cubes and CaliCats in the last couple weeks, zero spaghetti. I switch to the green filament, everything I've printed is spaghetti.
(DIR) Post #AzYGUuktjaoH9m8n5c by foone@digipres.club
2025-10-25T01:05:31Z
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maybe this filament is just bad or I'm outside its temperature range. I tried 220°C and 200°C, both spaghettied.
(DIR) Post #AzYIVgkhU1FPvNXro8 by StarkRG@myside-yourside.net
2025-10-25T01:26:21Z
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@foone Possibly a dryness issue?
(DIR) Post #AzYIVi4wYF2C2S1Y00 by foone@digipres.club
2025-10-25T01:27:36Z
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@StarkRG I didn't think it'd be that, since the green was fresh out of a vacuum sealed bag (but I'm not sure how old it is)
(DIR) Post #AzYyzKDW1sO2nLpzrU by foone@digipres.club
2025-10-25T09:23:54Z
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@endrift yeah it's a pi 3. I'm upgrading it to a pi4 soon
(DIR) Post #AzYzMNwcKwYD12vh3Y by foone@digipres.club
2025-10-25T09:28:09Z
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@endrift sadly a pi is what I have on hand, so it's at the low low price of free
(DIR) Post #AzYzUiyy0Ccea30Mzo by foone@digipres.club
2025-10-25T09:29:40Z
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@endrift I've got a canakit power supply for it which I seem to recall worked well the last time I tried it
(DIR) Post #Aza6nTHlTqgmEkdybo by foone@digipres.club
2025-10-25T22:26:14Z
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Got some fresh filament, it printed a CaliCat just fine at 200°C.I also swapped to a Pi4 for OctoPrint, so no more undervoltage errors.Now lets see if we can do a loooong print
(DIR) Post #Aza7RMJMpUNsBrPfwe by foone@digipres.club
2025-10-25T22:33:27Z
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so a brief list of issues I've had so far in the last 10 days of my exciting 3d printing adventures:* slicer was crashing* old filament* pi undervolting* extruder gear destroyed* old filament again* old filament again* z axis is questionably calibrated* build plate is bent
(DIR) Post #Aza7ZcMF3MuAH2hCVc by foone@digipres.club
2025-10-25T22:34:56Z
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oh yeah it wasn't in this thread but it turned out my slicer wasn't launching properly because it was trying to talk to my keyboards
(DIR) Post #Aza7ihXj8zcIxhOp4i by piggo@piggo.space
2025-10-25T22:35:53.212714Z
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@foone it's a very fun hobby
(DIR) Post #Aza7iiaxETnCDzuukC by foone@digipres.club
2025-10-25T22:36:28Z
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@piggo but sometimes I don't want a hobby, I just want my fucking enclosure
(DIR) Post #Aza7lpcjYYtQtPEYoS by kawa@mas.to
2025-10-25T22:37:06Z
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@foone That seems like a very Foone-specific issue.
(DIR) Post #Aza7qnDXvjkmsTonJY by foone@digipres.club
2025-10-25T22:38:03Z
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@kawa as I said recently elsewhere, being Foone is both my crime and punishment
(DIR) Post #Aza7xy08EeR0Ljxrge by manawyrm@chaos.social
2025-10-25T22:39:16Z
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@foone @piggo then go buy a bambu :Pit'll do just that (been there, done that) :P
(DIR) Post #Aza82Oeh4rgcAt37x2 by foone@digipres.club
2025-10-25T22:40:06Z
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@manawyrm @piggo unfortunately, money
(DIR) Post #AzaA6HR24320qcdfyi by ret@furry.engineer
2025-10-25T23:03:14Z
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@foone memories of my 3D printer not working because ModemManager was busily firing AT commands at it trying to get it to be a modem.
(DIR) Post #AzaFyHo3OoxPPKyj5M by SvenGeier@mathstodon.xyz
2025-10-26T00:09:00Z
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@fooneI always picture your entire computing setting consisting of nothing but stacks and stacks of interconnected keyboards. What else would a device be talking to,?
(DIR) Post #AzaU7vJfGqUluTFnH6 by foone@digipres.club
2025-10-26T02:47:40Z
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new filament failed. I went in there and the extruder was clicking, trying and failing to shove plastic through the hot end.SO YEAH I KINDA HATE THIS THING
(DIR) Post #AzaUVdY0z9QFkfH0jI by foone@digipres.club
2025-10-26T02:51:57Z
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the issue is either the bowden tube (unlikely but possible) or the hotend. if the hot end is clogging I cannot fix it. it takes more time to disassemble and reassemble that fucker than I can stand in a day
(DIR) Post #AzaV2wlCZdxQtYKCTg by foone@digipres.club
2025-10-26T02:57:58Z
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it's time.
(DIR) Post #AzaWNER4fPNPSa9ARM by foone@digipres.club
2025-10-26T03:12:51Z
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farewell
(DIR) Post #AzaX1Q9WWU2ZNn6L3o by jimp@masto.ai
2025-10-26T03:20:04Z
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@foone Printer's haunted [racks shotgun]Seriously, though, that sounds like some trouble I had with my Creality CR-10S. I no longer have that printer, though. Lots of fiddly trouble like that.Replaced it with a Core One and the only problems there have been self-inflicted and easily solved. Cost a hell of a lot more but being able to "just print" is a hell of a lot better on one's mental health, I can attest to that.
(DIR) Post #AzaXaDMu2vOVruwysi by rx13@infosec.exchange
2025-10-26T03:17:43Z
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@fooneAlso, I've had numerous issues with Octoprint specifically where the exact same model will print fine via SD card or USB stick.Ymmv, but that could be your problem too
(DIR) Post #AzaXaEYzbSevZhc9Me by foone@digipres.club
2025-10-26T03:26:19Z
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@rx13 I don't know why it would suddenly develop that symptom, though! this stupid printer has printed thousands of hours of shit, mostly just fine.
(DIR) Post #AzaY2Iz2lLNJONBWXg by rabbit400@bitbang.social
2025-10-26T03:31:27Z
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@foone 🕯️
(DIR) Post #AzaZqgsaICTJw9kksK by foone@digipres.club
2025-10-26T03:51:43Z
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my roommate bought another printer.
(DIR) Post #AzaaGkMtwXKMHrMGqe by dngrs@chaos.social
2025-10-26T03:56:25Z
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@foone 4d?
(DIR) Post #AzabUwouXoeOuinLMW by moira@mastodon.murkworks.net
2025-10-26T04:10:12Z
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@foone
(DIR) Post #AzabyudpD3m2qNtj2O by foone@digipres.club
2025-10-26T04:15:36Z
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@gewt you should be able to get multipliers and then balatro flames
(DIR) Post #Azac3RbObVnQEDvFlQ by foone@digipres.club
2025-10-26T04:15:55Z
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@gewt god that's a terrible idea someone could actually do that
(DIR) Post #Azac3WXgEknLY9DrAO by foone@digipres.club
2025-10-26T04:16:12Z
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@gewt balatro-but-it's-extreme-couponing would be a hell of an indie game
(DIR) Post #AzagA5FIWT4ajd0XFA by misty@digipres.club
2025-10-26T05:02:24Z
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@foone So long.........
(DIR) Post #Azb8Z2D9jubxHOgxFY by garthy@social.linux.pizza
2025-10-26T10:20:35Z
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@foone sue many have said it but seems many of your problems are caused or solved by keyboards? 😜 sometimes both.