I tried printing a disk with the bed at 70c and it looks better. Going to try with it even higher. This sheet has a +0.350 z offset compared to my normal PEI sheet, so that might contribute to low heat conduction.

It was out of mind until I got this new build plate with a fancy texture that I want to imprint on my prints.

This is PLA, I can’t get PETG to stick to the “PEO” bed plate.

Thanks, now I’m hungry

I tried adjusting the z offset to raise the nozzle, but it didn’t help.

My bl-touch mount broke so I’ve been doing manual bed leveling for a while. I just finished printing a 185x185mm part (half of a dactyl keyboard) and the first layer looked great from the top.

Edit: I also deleted the old bed mesh from my klipper config when the bl-touch broke

40/200 looks the same as 60/220. I can try 60/210 but I don’t think it will be any different.

It’s hot - 60 bed, 220 nozzle. I’ll try 40/200

Layer adhesion is great.

No, this pattern isn’t coming from the bed. The bed actually has a polygon pattern that I’m trying to get the plastic to pick up. Sellers on Amazon/ebay/Ali are calling it PEO, but it’s really just PEI with a fine texture that diffracts light. The pattern from the bed comes through really well on the perimeter of anything I print, but not the center.

I forgot to mention, but I also played with the extrusion multiplier (both directions) and it didn’t make a difference. I’ve also gone through the klipper docs and TeachingTech’s calibration guide, the printer is fairly well calibrated at this point.

If you need to replace a cheap nozzle after each medium-sized print with abrasive filament, then I’m thinking print quality will suffer towards the end of a larger print (like >250g, but definitely >1kg). Not having to replace nozzles mid-print makes the $70 nozzle seem like a better deal. Depending on what you print and how much you print, of course.

It’s a lot faster to stick an existing web ui into an electron app than make a true native app.

There aren’t any alternatives that follow the RPi’s original mission, they’re all for-profit. And I’m not sure you’ll find a more affordable board than the $15 Pi Zero 2.

I’m not sure I fully understood, but it sounds like you have several concerns with their competition? And those concerns are around asking people to design things that are potentially unsafe, giving bad advice for selecting materials, and awarding prize money to submissions by Prusa employees?

Nextcloud isn’t SaaS, unless you’re paying someone else to manage your server. Self-hosting is never SaaS.

How much software is standalone these days, though? It seems like most companies are shifting to SaaS.

Yeah, it’s kind of like crowd-funding. The early customers get a great deal, but also have the risk of the company going out of business.

Yep, they’ll probably stop updating the Affinity product and launch a new product line with annual subscriptions. Probably cloud-based.

Looks like it’s last official version was released in 2007. Are you using a version from gimpshop.com with added adware/spyware? The wiki for gimpshop is pretty eye-opening…

I originally created Gimpshop, but I’m not the jerk who owns that domain and added adware & spyware to the source. Sorry about that. I hate that this guy is out there making my fun little project into an abomination.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GIMPshop

Their contacts are most likely protected by NDAs, but they’re also written by lawyers who know how to close loopholes. There’s no way a SIG like the HDMI forum would allow members to release compatible products without following the rules.

Even if it isn’t covered by the contract, the other members could hold a vote to remove AMD from the forum.

No, they can’t. AMD is a member of the HDMI forum, which means they’re contractually obligated to follow the forum’s rules. In exchange, they get voting rights on decisions like this one, the right to propose changes to the HDMI standards, technical details that are protected by NDAs, etc. They wouldn’t throw that all away and open themselves up to a lawsuit just for their OSS drivers.