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Could still be temperature if the thermistors on e printers read differently--that is, the same setting doesn't necessarily work out to the same physical temperature on two printers, even if they're the same model, because the thermistors vary. My suspicion would be that you're printing a little hot, and the filament is contracting after it's extruded. On the first few layers it can't shrink much because of all the material in the middle, but on the vase mode layers there's nothing preventing it.

Another possibility is that your overlap percentage between your infill and perimeters is too high. This leads to something that basically is overextrusion, but it's usually visible as more of a ripple.

A third possibility is that it's just the filament.

Honestly, Google killing this will probably be the best outcome for it, because otherwise they'll try to monetize it, and that could be a nightmare. Just a straight-up conversation partner that tries to wheedle personal information out of you for their advertising profiles. Even their example question about what you like to do for fun is a little uncomfortable in that context.

Note that it also breaks our privacy if we view the link. Caution is advised.

I mean, I assume what happened was that the friend looked in their library, was surprised the game wasn't there after they bought it online, and since they were already chatting they just asked what to do rather than try to solve it alone. Opening a store is always a little slow just because it has to load ads and images and everything from online, so I can see why you wouldn't just rush to try that if your friends were waiting for you.

It's not FOSS, and it's been a few years since I used it, but I used to rely on Jota text editor. It was a very straightforward one, no bells and whistles, but that was kinda what I wanted from it. It didn't get unmanageable when using very large files, and if I recall correctly I think it also handled both Unix and Windows line endings, which mattered to me.

Not sure if it's still good, though. I don't do nearly as much weird stuff with my phone as I used to.

Thanks!

Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion...

I'm really curious how good the depth sensor is. In the iPhone there are apps that will let you use the depth sensor as a 3d scanner; I'd like to see something like that here. I'm particularly curious if it would be possible to use the scanner to get the contours of your face, then use that to 3d print a custom facial interface out of TPU, sort of similar to what the bigscreen beyond does.

I just use swipe typing, but my dad absolutely loves MessagEase, which is basically a 9-key keyboard. The gimmick is that every letter is a gesture; nine letters are just taps, and everything else (including some punctuation) you start on one of those nine keys and swipe in one of eight directions (up, left, upper left, etc.). I think there are a couple of other large keys, like a space bar at the bottom and delete and "switch to numbers and extra punctuation" on the right, but you mainly use the nine for words. It's not terrible, and he's gotten moderately fast at it. Might be worth a look.

Edit: Oh, I've just seen that MessagEase is now unmaintained, and the "thumbkey" mentioned in another comment is basically a replacement. So I guess this is just another recommendation for that keyboard! Oops.

Fakespot used to reveal more about how they detected fakes, but as you say there are obvious issues with that, as it's a bit of an arms race. They don't just look at the text of the individual review though. Folks who buy reviews tend to get them from "review farms" that do reviews for a lot of products, and they don't have an infinite number of Amazon accounts to use for that, so there are network effects that can be powerful indicators, and that aren't easy for manipulate.

Good sci fi usually isn't about the future, aliens, etc. It's about the present, but portrayed in a strange way so as to bypass your existing preconceptions about the situation, so you can look at it with fresh eyes.

So, one thing to consider is whether you could have remnants of a previous filament getting stuck in your hotend and carbonizing and causing partial clogs. That depends a bit on what you were running just before running this filament. If this is the issue, a cleaning filament can help. Another possibility is that your nozzle isn't tight against the heatbreak, in which case plastic can accumulate there and cause issues. The only way to fix that is to disassemble the hotend and put it back together correctly--this usually involves tightening the nozzle when it's hot, but check the details for your specific printer.

But yeah, it could also just be bad filament. That's probably the easiest thing to fix, anyway.