you might want to check how tight the filament is before it goes into the system, like it was a popular trend to find a way to get your spools on bearings instead of free spinning, as that extra tension goes a long way to create problems.

Good luck, hope you can fix it without having to tear down the whole print head

It depends on the filament you use but if you are using brass nozzles, best to get use to replacing them periodicly. Just look at thingaverse or the prusa site for nozzle assessories and look at how people make cases for multiples sizes and numbers of nozzles. IDK what kind of quality that FlashForge has but its pretty typical to wear out the nozzle (just maybe not as fast as you are experiencing)

but you might be having problems with the preloading or the tension on the filament feeding gear. IDK the method that your printer uses but I had similar problems with my PRUSA until I replaced the Hotend PTFE tube. Those will also wear out so get a few if your printer uses that feeding system

while I have little sympathy for them if the accusations are true, cutting all those people at the same time is just stupid and dangerous. Hopefully there’s still people around the know how the systems work…

Windows 95 can’t run most of the modern virus files. It is mostly 16bit DOS that loads the 32bit initilization before the GUI presents itself. Anything looking for Win2k (NT) paths will fail. The virus wont know where the OS folder is

probably not needed but put a smoke detector in or directly outside and above it, just in case

excellent timing

lots of things going on here but my initial feel is your printhead is too close to the surface and is scraping the surface of the plastic instead of dropping it

time to work on that first layer smoothness, its the bane of us all but once you get it right, it is a major milestone

I do love some bush tits and don’t get me started on dem booby

how do we know they actually have a job though?

i did a zoomed pic, figured it wasn’t as good

Washington State

it’s 2025, anyone still using WinRAR is asking for trouble. 7zip is free and can unrar.

I can’t say I have seen any good reason to use RAR in this day and age, unless you’re doing questionable things with it.

ohh it’s the exe package self extraction… even worse

so have you read that bit about how the CEO of Microsoft uses AI?

i suspect this attack is aimed at a similar audience, executive suite level idiots who don’t know how to use technology

IDK but all the men in my family from this generation wanted to go kill Nazis. Funny thing was that the military wouldn’t let them. All of them were assigned to places in Washington State.

Imagine a bunch of Oglala men (that guy in the picture could very well be Lakota) being unable to fight in a war… The Oglala were the greatest warriors in the American Indian wars

those old fashioned wine skins are pretty good but they make plastic bottles that almost weight nothing and compress. Those are what I use

warm whisky is fucking awesome after a couple miles of backpacking, just another fyi

there’s no comparison…

a cold one on the beach is good but if you’re hiking up into the mountains and when you get to your campsite and open a lukewarm beer … that beer is so good

not much can compare

ok so this example only pertains to backpacking but I stand firm on it

you are a part of the life cycle of this planet… maybe when we start getting funky with the little green men and ladies, our future fucked up kids can reincarnate as something on either planet(s)

I keep a box of the alcohol prep wipes near my printer. Give it a good wipe down before every print, does wonders. Sometimes when that fails, I clean the plate with dawn and water and dry it off really good. Then give it another once over with the alcohol

if you do a lot of PETG and PLA, you should probably make sure that you have different printing plates or surfaces. Because they won’t play well together in the long term.

oh dang that made me laugh, sorry man

i always opt out of any birthday business at work. i take that day off and ignore work. that’s my birthday card!