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Another thing that can cause this is if the extruder motor overheats. Is the cold end fan running? Is the motor hot to the touch?

The tech behind the s-pen is made by Wacom, and they're in the USI, so I don't think it's totally impossible. Pens are just pretty niche right now, partly because the android tablet market is so lousy. I think the tech has improved a bit--supposedly they're down to a 0.7mm tip now, which is in the range where handwriting on a phone starts to make sense again. So maybe we'll see more uptake of these, especially if the foldables market grows.

The use cases I really want to see for this tech are things like an advanced calculator that lets you handwrite an integral and then gives you the closed form solution if it exists, or a graph, etc. if it doesn't; and a nice pen-driven CAD program. Those would be amazing things to have in your pocket all the time, but they're a little too intricate to work well with fat fingers on a phone.

But for now I don't think the tech is really quite good enough for phones. It's good enough for my brother-in-law, who is an animator, to use it to doodle all the time, but that's kinda it. On the iPad Pro he can do a lot more with the Apple Pencil, but that has more to do with the Apple tablet software ecosystem than with the pen itself, and Google has neglected that aspect of Android. On phones the pens just seem pretty limited.

Oh great, a "sovereign organism" movement...

Yeah, it's not there for me. I've got "view your profile," messages (which is a fakeout, as you can't actually view them on the mobile website), groups, marketplace, friends, "videos on watch", pages, dating, saved, memories, events, games, "climate science information center", "ads manager", "orders and payments", "most recent", settings, dark mode, "privacy shortcuts", language, help, "support inbox", about, "report a problem", and logout. No feeds. I've never seen it.

I don't get the "feeds" option on the mobile website with Android Chrome.

You were pretty unlucky to buy a Pixel 5A in 2022. Every Pixel device that's been released since October 2021's Pixel 6 has had 5 years of security updates*, including the A line starting with the Pixel 6A in mid-2022. So the only phone Google still sold in the first half of 2022 that didn't have that was the 5A.

At this point the Pixel phones specifically do have pretty decent support lifetimes. iPhones are still doing better, and Android phones in general are terrible about it, but for the Pixels in particular this has ceased to be a big issue. It sounds like you managed to snag the very last phone with this problem.

*They still only get 3 years of OS upgrades, but that hasn't made a meaningful difference in several years.

Even with wired headphones, the volume setting didn't directly correspond to a decibel level. High quality headphones often have a higher impedance than cheaper ones, which makes them much quieter (unless you use an external amp). The automatic volume reducer thing was just always pretty frustrating in the past.

The really bizarre thing is that the contract covered the watering for the first year, and only then reverted to an ODOT responsibility. Which means that maintenance was definitely discussed at some point during the planning phase. Someone at ODOT really screwed up here.

I haven't experienced layer adhesion dropping with higher nozzle sizes. Are you setting volumetric flow rate limits? If you don't limit the volumetric flow rate, and try to run higher nozzle diameters at the same speed as smaller ones (especially with greater layer heights), then this could cause that issue, because you're extruding material that isn't adequately melted. But in general, nozzle diameter and layer adhesion shouldn't be closely related.

Minimum feature size, on the other hand, is definitely related, and is indeed the main reason you might want a small nozzle or low layer height.

I liked it well enough to keep watching it while I had a service that showed it, but MacFarlane never stopped grating on me.

To emphasize this discrepancy, based on these numbers, if one tenth of one percent of reddit's monthly active users switched to lemmy, that would represent more than 600% growth in the lemmy userbase. So yeah. Sharp growth here isn't necessarily a sharp decline there.

But if the tiny minority that leaves is the same group that's willing to spend dozens of hours a week for free keeping the site free of spam and hate and keeping forums on topic, that has a pretty outsized impact on the quality of the site moving forward. So the small number isn't to say that reddit wasn't hurt by the exodus. It's just to say that lemmy growth numbers aren't a good indicator of that impact.

The number was $1,212,000 to be in the 90th percentile in the US in 2017 according to https://www.census.gov/content/dam/Census/library/publications/2020/demo/p70br-170.pdf

But worldwide, it was indeed about $93,000. https://www.cnbc.com/2018/11/07/how-much-money-you-need-to-be-in-the-richest-10-percent-worldwide.html