Be careful of what, spontaneously learning to fly? I’m still trying to wrap my head around what possible sequence of events could have led to hooking that bike by its forks on the pole like that while apparently causing very little damage to it in the process. Okay, he’s knocked off the front fairing and the windscreen, if it had one. But both tires are still inflated, the frame appears straight, the lower splitter is still attached, and I don’t even think the fork tubes are bent.

Just.

How?

Or constructive dismissal.

“We’ll make all those expensive whiners quit, and then they won’t get unemployment benefits. Don’t worry, we’ll replace their positions with AI. It’ll totally work. Honk honk.”

That’s only the rear wheel drive ones. There are still plenty of other idiots who were dumb enough to put down even more money for the prior more expensive variants.

Rampant incompetence?

They should, yes, but they don’t. In fact, they’ll ding you for having too many failed transactions and claim that it’s your responsibility to do something about it.

The author not only uses ASCII bricks ( ▓ ) as bullets, and not only uses silly CSS tricks to mark down animated rainbow text rather than using the four megabyte or whatever jquery library which would inevitably tempt everyone else, but also goes as far as to literally name the aforementioned CSS class “funky.”

I think I like this cat already.

Win + G if you don’t have an XBox controller connected to your PC, like I presume most people probably don’t.

RIP to the Microsoft support forums, then. Although if these get tanked in the search results that will probably be a small net benefit for society given that not a single problem has ever been successfully solved by the Microsoft support forums in the entire history of computing.

Correct. They only care about this stuff because they don’t want anyone to use it on them.

If you don’t believe me, just note how basically every single weapons ban written in the US magically has an exception for law enforcement carved into it. So… We (not me, but all you Californian people) can’t have, say, a butterfly knife but for some reason the cops can? What do they need it for that we don’t, exactly?

Curiously enough I had the opposite result with the windshield on my Shadow. Fitting it make the bike significantly more stable at speed, albeit at the expense of making the top vents in my helmet whistle. Oh well.

Interesting. Well, if I ever want to get into any of that I’ll look into it. For now, the stock firmware is doing fine by me.

All stock. What limitations are those? I haven’t run i to any that have impacted me as far as I can tell.

Sounds plausible to me. On reflection, I think I’d just run off a wooden box on my table saw if I need a cube to sit on.

My problem, as I’m sure many others have, is admitting when 3D printing something probably isn’t the best solution…

If there were ever a poster child for printing something with a 0.4mm layer height of possibly even more, it may be this. One wonders how much infill you’d need to make it strong enough to sit on. Otherwise, I don’t know what the heck you’d do with it.

Could be. Usually when that happens there’s some variance in the surface, too, or some booger left behind. I didn’t see that here but it’s possible it simply got mashed flat back into the surface on the adjacent pass.

Yes, and let me tell you about how many times I’ve resolved to finally one day remove those stickers and I still haven’t. Now that they’ve been thoroughly baked in the enclosure they’re on there good.

That’s just the shadow cast by the gantry blocking the LEDs that are all arranged along the front edge of the machine.

Rather, I have two of these which are just tiny specs of grey or black or grey or something, which got printed right into the top surfaces. They’re small, but annoyingly visible. This is what I get for buying cheap filament, possibly.

Exactly so.

I can’t speak for other printers, but my X-Max 3 has an absurdly thick aluminum plate under there which seems to spread the heat pretty well. I’ve poked it with my little IR camera and it’s not 100% even but it’s not bad. The only side effect of this is that it takes a month of Sundays to fully reach temperature, especially when you’re aiming for higher temperature materials like ABS.

Here it is on today’s preheat for PLA:

(IR cat tax paid here.)

I appreciate the intent of having a port readily accessible for e.g. grandma to find without groveling behind the dusty TV, but that does not excuse not having another one in a more sensible location.