Here’s what that looks like for me. Basically a controller_fan configured to kick off with the steppers.

#Case fan for cooling when heating bed [controller_fan controller_fan] pin: YOUR_FAN_PIN_HERE heater: heater_bed stepper: stepper_x,stepper_y,stepper_z heater_temp: 40.0 fan_speed: 0.8 shutdown_speed: 1.0 kick_start_time: 0.5

Is it running Klipper or something else?

In Klipper I have my controller board fan set to speed up only when there’s any active heaters or stepper drivers?

E.g. fires up only when moving/heating or printing but not when idle. Even then it’s set to a reasonable 80% threshold.

I always took the unhinged erratic behavior as the point (Ala Ledgers Joker) but I appreciate you sharing your thoughts on it.

I don’t think so… just thinking of some of the best performances of complex villains lately.

Add the Amanda Plummer as Vadic. Those are some phenomenal performances.

I feel you on getting these things settled. My Frankender is pretty reliable and making sure the foundational stuff is good is key.

Here’s a comment I made here about a year back breaking down how to square, align and level these things

https://lemmy.world/comment/7904011

The context is Klipper which I’m running but the physical stuff applies across the board

May be a good time to see if there bits of filament in the extruder gears and if they’re ok. And, if they are, to clean the nozzle either by using filament or a cold pull.

And there’s the issue with embedded security stuff.

x posting rule

Because they’re really good out of the box printers and prior to this for somebody that wanted something that “just works” it would be Prusa or Bambu I’d recommend.

I love tinkering and tweaking and I’m building a Voron but it’s not hard to understand how overwhelming choices can be and it’s understandable that people would choose to lock into an ecosystem specifically because it lets them just print.

I would never buy a Bambu and wouldn’t recommend it for anybody building a company with essential components having them in the pipeline but then again most people aren’t that aware and their research, understandably, led them to buying one.

I agree with OP, this is an opportunity to be empathic and to help them. And they’re learning the hard way a lesson they’ll take forward. I’d prefer that lesson to be “more careful” and not “these people are snobs”

If there’s no periods of rest… yes.

There’s also the retraction/wipe of filament. So if you can’t do it inside the print then the tower is used to give that surface to wipe off against.

Worst case then would be boogers/wisps

The blood vessels can be permanently damaged from an erection that long so it tracks.

This is why the Viagra commercials have that “if you have an erection lasting longer than 4 hours” bit. It is a serious issue that if not addressed can lead to permanent damage that can make it impossible to have an erection.

That’ll do pig… that’ll do.

Nope. But here’s Lift resting her eyes after a long day

Stormin’ Fence…. Stormin’ Chicken

They can be. Anathem was a bit more of a slog that sped up.

I found cryptonomicon to be slow at first (but not like Anathem) but it sped up quickly.

It goes back and forth between “modern” early 00’s? And WW2.

Stephenson is the kind of author you start a book and after a bit you’re like… ok… I don’t think this is for me… wait… what? And then you’re hooked.

Anathem is one of the worst that was like that. Snow Crash would be the polar opposite and one of the rare ones that just jumps straight into the world building.

Unrelated: I just finished Wind and Truth. So weird to think somebody got me hooked on Sanderson about 2 years ago and I’ve burned through all his books (except for Reckoners and the Alcatraz books). The first because I haven’t tried one but seems a bit more youth oriented and the latter because it is more youth oriented than my usual tastes.

You will. The Great Silence was very poignant. But yeah, there’s a great variety of stories.

I’m just starting The Apt series (guess I’m doing Tchaikovsky in reverse) end will finally get to the children of time series when I can get it via my library or I might just bite the bullet and buy the audiobook.

Air sick low lander. How could you miss Tchaikovsky…

But seriously, he’s a great author. And Chiang is great too. I don’t think I’ve read any of his short stories and come away disappointed. I mean one of them became the basis for the movie Arrival.

They don’t always end on a happy note (most are hopeful) but they’re true to the story they tell.

Just hit me. More modern time… historical fiction at the start and blends into more sci-fi as the series goes on.

Neil Stephenson: Crypto series

Cryptonomicon Reamde Fall: or dodge in hell