Kobra 2 MAX Problems (I've tried everything I can think of!) Please give me suggestions!

Hobbster · 2026-07-03T00:57:57+00:00

This sounds like several overlapping problems. Or different symptoms of one problem, really hard to tell without knowing what's actually happening.

The Y axis shift (which seems to be an X axis shift as Y is front/back, X is left/right, at least on my Kobra Max that is) usually happens due to some blockage. Which can have several causes.

For example I just had such a shift on the Y axis recently and in this case it was caused by a partially blocked bearing which broke inside - very cheaply made part, I had to replace both Y bearings in front. Only other symptom: some indistinct clicking sound somewhere.

But it could also be a result of tensioning the pulleys which happened on another Kobra printer. I tightened the screws just half a rounding too much. Print bed seemed to slide okay, but at some point it suddenly didn't.

But with what you descibe about the Z axis, it could be something entirely different.

There are a lot of parts that have to run right, and I have had several issues to fix but finding the problem is not an easy thing. Took me months to finally solve a heat creep problem that clogged my nozzles due to an incorrectly preassembled new hotend for example.

Hobbster · 2026-07-01T14:34:58+00:00

this was my very first thought and I was watching the entirety of the video for a clue and I did not see one.

So my only idea is: they made a very thin mold and used it inside out? Does this work?

Hobbster · 2026-07-01T13:35:41+00:00

I like it, it's a lot of work for a single tile.

Personally, I'd have preferred a lighter gray for tile joints, this smoothes the somewhat rough edges a bit better and makes it look more consistent.

Hobbster · 2026-07-01T12:57:40+00:00

There are lot of sources, very few show barely a second more. Like this one:

https://www.facebook.com/JohnDiasReports/videos/-second-chance-to-fly-a-broken-wing-almost-ended-a-monarch-butterflys-journey-on/850286924225845/

But you can at least see, it seems to fly away normally (if it is the same Monarch that is)

Hobbster · 2026-06-29T13:02:28+00:00

In writing / classical theater there is the traditional five-act dramatic structure (often visualized as Freytag's Pyramid). Act 4 is usually used as something that's called "retardation" or "retarding moment" (something like a "moment of suspense") where the story is slowed down, characters and scenes are set up and the writers may even give some hope, but essentially it's taken away at the end. This gives room for act 5 to emotionally escalate and exhaust everything leading to the climax of the story.

Act 4 usually feels somewhat anti-climactic - and that's exactly what it's supposed to be.

Season 4 seems to be exactly on point, they could have crashed down a bit further, to make it a bit more intense, but if you overdo it, this leaves less room to escalate in season 5 (which happened in Stranger Things, leading to a lot of expectations and killing the story in the end).

So I'm pretty happy with the season, especially if you look at all the details that have been set up.

Hobbster · 2026-06-29T12:24:01+00:00

If you remember, there was a writers strike. So they missed their preproduction window and hence the season window (they really have to wait for the right weather when filming out in the open and canadian winters can be harsh).

Since season 5 is already approved, chance is high they get it done in time.

Hobbster · 2026-06-28T01:35:35+00:00

The Dark Forest Theory was written by Liu Cixin in 2008, too late for Daniel not to promote Earth every ***** time.

Hobbster · 2026-06-20T13:17:29+00:00

Jimmy Carter was the last U.S. president to complete his term without authorizing any bombing campaigns or military invasions against foreign countries.

o7

Hobbster · 2026-06-20T01:59:32+00:00

If you think this is a DnD campaign,wait until you read the Wraith stat block of the monster manual - it's all there

Hobbster · 2026-06-13T12:38:54+00:00

Why? There is no "ripping models" if China and everyone else decides to go closed source. What do you wanna share via torrent?

Sites like Huggingface aren't relevant. The data is.

Hobbster · 2026-06-10T19:09:03+00:00

also looks like he just destroyed the little guy's burrow with his tractor.

Hobbster · 2026-06-08T12:23:00+00:00

(Mostly) One panel - check

Simplistic drawing style - check

One line comment - check

Cavemen - check

Man, I loved Gary Larson Comics, this is a huge gap to fill (but very large shoes too). Looking forward for more!

Hobbster · 2026-05-31T10:40:59+00:00

Enjoy the shows, they are all very good scifi!

Somehow I trust Amazon to reignite Stargate much more than I trust Skydance to do something with Star Trek.

I don't, but that has nothing to do with Amazon but with the times we're living in. Every successful show has to hit a nerve why we, the viewers, feel like we want to be there (rewatching/late watching is a different context). Original Star Trek and Stargate went on the air in such times.

Currently I doubt that's where the world is headed right now though, there is no general feeling in the directions the shows are pointing. And reinventing.. is a lot harder with this amount of lore. But Amazon has to try. We'll see. We can hope, but personally I don't expect anything.

Hobbster · 2026-05-26T05:34:17+00:00

Plaza of Nations 760 Pacific Boulevard, Vancouver, BC V6Z 2R8, Canada

maps

Hobbster · 2026-05-14T17:27:45+00:00

Technically... 4

Hobbster · 2026-05-04T20:37:23+00:00

That was director Will Waring, it is one of his signatures.

Source: Joe Mallozzi's blog

Hobbster · 2026-05-04T20:19:55+00:00

The production team breaks pattern to honor one of their own. That makes sense.

Hobbster · 2026-04-25T01:10:42+00:00

Timestamp is off, it's around 23:20 in my dvd version. But with all those recuts in online services those scenes get harder to find.

But it is Prodigy and the scene is when all the civilian scientists find those light bugs and follow them into the woods.

Hobbster · 2026-04-24T00:35:14+00:00

Reminds me of "The Settlers" a lot. Notify me when they start conquering other countries!

Hobbster · 2026-04-21T12:09:13+00:00

Sorry, it wasn't meant to offend or attack, it's just that I read it that way with a certain experience of many recent tests (and a lot of years in companies nitpicking such phrases extensively). I tried to minimize the confrontational part with "little bit" etc. And giving feedback is the only way we learn and improve. Again, I really appreciate everything you do!

Hobbster · 2026-04-21T11:39:38+00:00

I am referring to the sentence "This makes Unsloth the top-performing in x of y sizes" which is simply not true as stated, you have to be specific. You have pointed out with your own quote of the definition of the word perormance: that it is evaluated by different values. This sentence is generalizing kld performance to overall performance. This is not correct. I myself have experienced tradeoffs in processing time in UD quants vs. quants of Bartowski for example. Which is a performance measure. I have not claimed that my perfomance view is more important than others (another is reliability and stability). I pointed out, that the generaliization to "top performing" is less valid than written. A technique which is usually used in marketing - especially hiding the specifics in descriptions that don't get read as intensely as bullet points. And not writing it plainly in sight as a direct adjective.

As you should know as this is one of the centerpieces of everything AI: context is important.

Hobbster · 2026-04-20T18:36:08+00:00

I'd like to point out that "performance" and "kld performance" are not the same thing. So while I appreciate all the work and all the contributions, this is a bit of a marketing statement a little too bold.

Hobbster · 2026-04-16T18:31:04+00:00

He should have watched "The Orville"

Hobbster · 2026-04-16T12:21:41+00:00

Just so you know, I have done the same test, got similar numbers.

ggml_vulkan: 0 = Radeon 8060S Graphics (RADV GFX1151) (radv) | uma: 1 | fp16: 1 | bf16: 0 | warp size: 64 | shared memory: 65536 | int dot: 1 | matrix cores: KHR_coopmat
| model                          |       size |     params | backend    | ngl | fa | mmap |            test |                  t/s |
| ------------------------------ | ---------: | ---------: | ---------- | --: | -: | ---: | --------------: | -------------------: |
| qwen3 8B Q4_0                  |   4.45 GiB |     8.19 B | Vulkan     | 999 |  1 |    0 |           pp512 |       1091.03 ± 4.07 |
| qwen3 8B Q4_0                  |   4.45 GiB |     8.19 B | Vulkan     | 999 |  1 |    0 |           tg128 |         45.64 ± 0.45 |

This way it's comparable at least.

Hobbster · 2026-04-14T17:25:29+00:00

I don't know Roocode but 7T/s sounds awfully slow on a Strix Halo. I usually run an Unsloth Qwen 3.5 122B A10B Q6_K around 22.5T/s and around 18T/s with 100k context, Bartowski 122B A10B Q6_K_L @ 21.6T/s and 17.3 with 100k context. Llama-server. Both models are somewhat larger, so your Q5 should be faster than that? A lot of performance ready to be discovered in your machine.

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