Hah! Did you paint that yourself? That’s pretty cool.

PETG just is a pain in the ass sometimes. Really sensitive to moisture, and it loves to stick to hot metal. So it has a tendency to overextrude because of the steam, and bunch up on the nozzle, causing all sorts of havok.

The key to printing it is just keeping it dry – the latest batches I’ve held feel like they’re way softer than I remember, so I suspect mfgs are putting more glycol in it than before.

Also, do a sanity check and go back and print PLA from time to time. Sometimes you won’t realize something else is wrong and you’ll blame it on the filament, but something like the idler arm on the extruder is broken, etc.

You can print it on Textured PEI, or Glass - but I suggest putting a little glue stick down to act as a release agent on the PEI - PETG and PEI bond together too well in some instances (ESPECIALLY on smooth PEI)

I run a business repairing consumer-grade 3D printers.

I’ll appeal to whatever I think is gonna keep your ass alive.

I’m going to tell you that people who try to commit suicide often end up unable to use their own facilities, and wind up trapped in a wheelchair unable to move or talk or care for themselves - so even if they still want to kill themselves, they’re trapped forever in hell until they die of old age instead. (Appeal to the chance you’ll fuck up)

I’m going to tell you of all the people you will hurt, and all the things that will suffer when you’re gone. (Appeal to Emotion, Appeal to disappointing others, etc)

I’m going to tell you that you’re loved, I’m going to try to stop you. Life is a wonderful, fantastical lottery that you’ve somehow managed to win, and I’m not going to let you throw it away. (Threats if I have to…)

I will use every fallacy in the book to try and keep you here with us. Alive.

Really wish they transitioned to a “Not-for-profit” structure, rather than non-profit. Non-profits can still be profit driven, sadly.

This is wrong on so many levels.

I used to run the 3D printing community on G+ at around 500k strong, (about 10k weekly active users according to Google’s stats) and I ended up actually pissing off a lot of my European users because of this. My viewpoint on it, was as an engineering exercise – it’s an amazing thing. It’s not advocating for guns, and guns aren’t only used to kill other people. So I stood up for the guys posting about their engineering challenges, and their work making 3D printed parts for a machine with high impact loads and loads of cycling issues.

Unfortunately, it lost me some friends, like Gina Haubage and Tomas Sanladerer – as they disagreed highly; and wanted to ban anyone posting firearms related 3D printing content.

Dear Darwin, this is the most naive human I’ve met this week.

Says someone who clearly has had no experience with it whatsoever.

“No cash donations to hungry homeless you pass”

i.e. Drug addicts and mental patients that you keep giving money to, so they tell all their friends and you start stocking up on vagrants in the area.

Stop fucking doing this. Volunteer at a soup kitchen, give homeless food, etc – stop giving them cash to spend on drugs and alcohol. This just enables their own self-destructive habits and doesn’t help them.

The Sci-Fi miniseries “The Lost Room”, I guess is technically a TV show? :D

“My Happy Marriage” is a wonderfully sweet Anime that I feel got passed by in terms of viewership.

“The Woman in the House Across the Street from the Girl in the Window” was a pretty good (non anime) series too. – It’s a kind of hilarious take on scary movies and the tropes within them.

Everyone is abandoning their safety advisory council just before elections…I wonder why…

I used it for its true purpose back in the day, for Microsoft Comic Chat.

It’s like almost nobody remembers that … that’s a thing that existed.