Amen.

Just depends on how it hits. I got a random message like

“It was great seeing you Sally, we should catch up like that more often.”

My name isn’t Sally. But my mom’s is. And my mom is at an age where sometimes I get a TXT via email, if you get me. And she complains about her friend not understanding tech…And this friend was visiting from out of town for the first time in years, one who I had told mom to give my number too in case they needed assistance while visiting.

So I said “Hey, Maureen, this is Sue, you must have pressed the wrong button. I’m sure Mom agrees! How was the restaurant? I’ve been meaning to try it.”

Now… That was not smart. I gave actually checks and changes real name to Sue my real name, my mom’s and a well known restaurant name. If the scammer had have been smart, there’s a million things they could have done with that to trick me, either immediately or by waiting awhile and then acting.

But they were on their pig butchering script, so their next TXT was clunky, and was like “oh! No this is Ally, I must have gotten the wrong number! Silly me.”

And I was like. “Oh ok. No problem, glad you got to catch up with your friend then!”

And then like 2 hours later they txtd “is that restaurant in city? I’ve always wanted to visit.”

And I didn’t reply.

And the next was a hilarious cut and paste from the wiki of the city like “it has 1.9 million people and an economy of 59million annually! How cool!” Do you live there?"

By then I had figured it out.

But they do this all the time, there are alot of them, and it doesn’t take much luck for your guard to go down…

Fucking thank you! Why is this so complicated?? Why fight for $15 or whatever if you know by the time your get the fucking laws past your dollar is worth half as much.

It’s so transparently flawed to because tying minimum wage to a formula/basket/col/astrology FFS, Would mean not having to revisit this fight every. Single. Year.

Thanks for the advice. I’ll go back and do some more tower tests, but (and again, this could be a skill/understanding issue) I don’t really understand how to get a print to change temp mid print, without using the touchscreen and staring at it waiting…

Right now I have bunch of settings saved that results in a pretty decent PLA print, but it takes ages. (Layer of .15, print speed 50-100, gyroid infill 15%. Bed 60* nozzle 210). And I tried to print a tube to put coins in and it’s 5 hours. And the threads didn’t come out great.

Overhangs get me usually, but sometime later adhesion if I dare use the ultimate presets like “course”, even if I adjust the temp.

Also I tried updating utlimaker to the latest version, rather than the one it comes with, and then was a disaster that lead me down a rabbit hole to Orca.

Which was another rabbit hole that my partner had to emotionally support me through as the equivalents of “PCLOADLETTER” would trash my prints on a whim. Usually 3/4 of the way through.

I bought this printer to print dust collector fittings and adaptors for power tools (I lead a construction team and I’m pro-safety) and I can usually get a print strong enough for the job, if not pretty.

But I’d like pretty…I’d like to be able to fine tune a print so it’s sexy and strong and also didn’t take 16 hours… Boaty takes 20 minutes and o Looks good every time I print so I just don’t get why something not as complex and the same size takes over an hour and doesn’t come out as clean.

If not bambu, what do you recommend?

Current sovol sv07 plus user and facing this wall where I can’t decide if it’s a skills/knowledge issue or a hardware limit.

But it only supports them if their video is then also good. I don’t like clickbait, because I don’t want to be tricked into my monkey brain looking at something. I do want to see good videos.

Just yesterday the algorithm found some guy doing tech videos. I watched a few of them and then sent a text to a friend who I thought would like it. He asked for a link so I pulled the guys channel up on my phone, and holy smokes, clickbait. If I hadn’t seen the videos already I wouldn’t have given that guy the time of day. But they are well thought out, interesting videos.

I’m not here to correct the world’s poor behaviour. I’m here to watch good videos. De-arrow does a good job of that, it’s quite interesting to see YouTube on a computer without it vs what I’m used to now.