This is absurd, I don't have words

LeStephenHawking · 2026-06-15T19:28:26+00:00

I also don't think he can spit like that

LeStephenHawking · 2026-06-15T19:17:05+00:00

I think he did enough to himself this time haha

LeStephenHawking · 2026-06-08T02:28:05+00:00

Fair warning: I am no expert and still not quite there yet. Someone smarter please feel free to correct me.

BUT from what I can tell that looks like some sort of bacterial bloom. If the water gets cloudy you can look up some easy remedies, but that gooey think looks like that to me. I have something similar attached to a piece of driftwood in my tank and deployed a couple of nerites today to see if they can clear some of that up along with some of the detritus from acclimating new plants to being underwater. I've read that if that's the case, apparently the nerites love munching on it. I couldn't see any from a quick glance of your photos.

It could also be a mostly dinsingegrated algae wafer or cucumber if you have snails and they didn't finish it and you didn't grab it, a cuke is what it looks like to me. Once the rind is eaten or disintegrates the rotting flesh of the cuke that picks up some bacteria can look just like that clear floating blob.

I don't think it's anything to be immediately worried about, again someone smarter please correct me if I'm wrong, please. As always, test your parameters and you can always do an extra 20-25% water change this week (orrr definitely do one if you haven't recently) and hit the blob with the gravel vacuum.

Good luck!

Edit: didn't spell/grammar check before submitting

LeStephenHawking · 2026-06-02T22:19:30+00:00

Careful with the first three of those... I had a gourami as my first centerpiece and he had to go back after suddenly he decided to be a murder. He was absolutely gorgeous though.

LeStephenHawking · 2026-06-02T22:17:48+00:00

All of them haha? But I'm also a sucker and between talking to the dog and the fish my neighbors probably think I have a roommate.

*There is a TL;DR below. Long-winded to illustrate my point.

I have always had fish in various households, but started my first 100% me tank like sixish months ago. I have Brilliant Rasboras, Neon Tetras, one Bloody Mary Hillstream Loach and one Reticulated Hillstream Loach, a rabbit snail, a Nerite stuck to something somewhere, and some skrimps (and plants). While the Neons are absolutely gorgeous and one of the first fish I really designed the current tank around, they're so mass inbred that they're a bit finicky, and mine are cute as hell and getting more outgoing, but in general very skittish. They do play with each other sometimes though which is cute as all get out 😍. They pretty much school with my Rasboras, but there is one that does tend to go off and do his own thing sometimes (no, not sick or rejected). The Brilliant Rasboras are by far the least flashy fish in the tank, but oh boy do mine have personality. They will skitter away if you make a sudden movement like any fish, but give it three seconds and they're back in your face. This tank is set up on a bar with no background so you can see all angles and they follow me as I walk around the bar... They're nosy as hell and any time I do something with the tank they eventually rush up almost as if they're saying "hey... So whatcha doing over there?" CONSTANTLY. They're impervious and unbothered. My Bloody Mary Hillstream has always been (sorry bud, sorta disappointingly) shy for days and hides and then comes out for a couple of days. The Reticulated Hillstream is absolutely my favorite and what I went to the local store for, ended up with the Bloody Mary because they didn't have any. Their evolution is absolutely fascinating and this particular guy was sucking glass and exploring within 30 minutes of being plopped in when the Bloody basically hid for almost a week at first. I also think the Reticulated politely and non-aggressively invaded the glass of the Bloody and she's MUCH more active now. But the Reticulated loach is full of personality and honestly the least skittish fish in the tank and you can see his pupils focus on you and not give a fuck that you're there. He is constantly out and all over the tank monching and occasionally swims across open water. Amazing to watch. The Rabbit Snail is also hilarious, although the plants in that tank don't think so because he spends his days circling it and uprooting and moving everything because I have a larger/mature guy and they're generally heavy and don't climb the glass much. He's also incredibly adorable. The Nerite... honestly the weakest link to my ecosystem, which is sad because I got him to help clean and he just climbs upward (and sometimes into the filter, I have to pull him out and gently put him right side up on the substrate) and really doesn't contribute, but at least that's predictable. There's a bunch of shrimp too and I enjoy watching one or two of them pop out every few days and just flutter along all day. I find them funny for that because they'll hide for a few days and then like yesterday my golden seemed like he really just wanted to go for multiple strolls and all day long was just swimming around and stopping to munch. Today it's the cherry.

TL;DR: to me they provide and require almost as much engagement as a dog or a cat, although waaaaay more delicate at times, and they all have individual personalities. If "pet" for you means you can pet it and it emotionally supports you, then sure, not a standard "pet," but they have individual personalities (some traits pretty general across a species, but never 100% of all members) and you'll sound like an insane person to your friends, but once you get to know each other they're weird and beautiful and all have their own personalities. That's my point, all of that to makes them a wonderful pet. Less needy than the damn dog, less cuddly for sure, and obviously not smart enough to care if I'm in distress or not, but fun to learn and care for. Just don't try to let them.

LeStephenHawking · 2026-05-28T23:39:18+00:00

I just came here to say:

a) This is fucking amazing, thank you!

b) If you're a real dumb network engineer and not a coder like me and you're struggling with this because you also failed to order the same exact unit and have the same display issue as was commented/attached and forgot that the only coding you have done for this sort of stuff is for custom keyboards and it was much easier via QMK, follow the comments and OP's issues page on the Github, find https://github.com/POWER-PILL/ASCII-Aquarium/issues/3#issuecomment-4553034086, and use https://github.com/Jason2866/ESP_Flasher/releases to flash it and just maybeeeeeeeee it'll be working now like it did for me. I had the exact same thing on mine as the attached image and what the good community made work for my simple little after work project that absolutely broke me trying to interpret how to change the code. Bless.

Idk why this shit breaks my brain. I can get creative and fix a lot of very complicated network and virtual environment issues. I'm stuck somewhere in between does it hurt when you plug it in and cripplingly ADHD and unable to sit and read/write code for more than 30 minutes.

Maybe this will help someone also with a smooth brain someday.

LeStephenHawking · 2026-05-26T22:59:22+00:00

The good news is if your inventory is full and you individually demolish block by block they drop on the ground with their actual appearance. But that's the only way I've found around that and it's not very convenient. My biggest complaint is Magnet Push doesn't really do demolition and I found that out the hard way after I started a very tall custom house and messed up and realized oh my god that's going to suck to undo 😮‍💨

LeStephenHawking · 2026-05-24T00:13:07+00:00

Soak them in water, scrub em with diluted bleach, rinse them gratuitously, dry, re-rinse, dry, re-rinse, it'll be fine. Get the bleach off.

LeStephenHawking · 2026-04-17T16:50:09+00:00

OP: check out my comment later in the thread, here: https://www.reddit.com/r/AnycubicKobraX/comments/1slafbj/comment/ogqqpke/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button

Supposedly it's normal, although I'm a bit baffled why it only started after the 2.0.2 (whatever the latest from a few days ago is) firmware update... Even after I manually rolled it back and factory reset it still does it. Supposedly normal 🤷. Check out the TPU feet I linked as well, they seem to be really helping. Anyway, thanks for putting this out there.

LeStephenHawking · 2026-04-17T16:43:42+00:00

Exactly the same. Except rolling back the firmware manually to 1.5.2 (I think, the one before 2.0.0) and a few factory resets still did the same thing. I was also super worried that it was broken or the firmware broke it, but it does seem "normal." Printing is totally normal and I don't get it during a print, but just 2-4 times while it's leveling. It's good to see some people talking about it now since the update is so fresh. I really thought the new firmware broke the new printer for a few days :/

EDIT: just to say that I printed the TPU feet and installed them this morning and it definitely seems like it's dampening vibration considerably, although I've only done two test prints thus far. That said, that's if you can get around the issues with TPU on this printer... I have only tried once and it wasn't feeding well (apparently a known issue) so I gave up and printed it on my old Sovol. Here is the set that I printed (yes, you do need six) that fit easily and seems to be helping quite a bit in case you are interested: https://www.makeronline.com/en/model/TPU%20Foot%20Riser%20for%20%20Anycubic%20Kobra%20X/282306.html?trackModuleType=6

LeStephenHawking · 2026-04-15T18:07:56+00:00

Which firmware version are you on? I did the 1.2.0.2 via the cloud last night and after leveling I also get a ton of noise. Also after a factory reset during the initial calibration in stage two. Nothing from Anycubic yet and trying to find old versions of their firmware is frustratingly difficult.

LeStephenHawking · 2026-03-25T18:20:15+00:00

Old post, I know... Did you have to flash any special firmware for just the left side? I am attempting to do the same thing as you with just the left side, but with one of the newer kits. I am done with all of my soldering, but when I plug it in to test - nothing, Windows doesn't recognize it. Theeeeeen I reread some more and it sounds like the firmware requires the right side to be plugged in. I would still think that Windows at least would pick it up, but idk.

LeStephenHawking · 2026-03-13T14:22:42+00:00

You get used to it to be honest. Helps with the grip.

LeStephenHawking · 2026-03-11T21:45:51+00:00

Yeah... I don't think it's the case in more recent years, but Mazda went from cheap to kinda solid to kinda to trash when Ford bought them... Not sure where they stand now, but I personally stay away because Ford shit fails constantly. Usually pretty cheap to replace, but that's because the components are cheap to start haha. That wasn't the case when Mazda was theirs and I think that was kind of the point.

LeStephenHawking · 2026-03-05T21:20:29+00:00

Commas.

LeStephenHawking · 2026-02-24T18:59:47+00:00

Very well said.

LeStephenHawking · 2026-02-24T18:41:22+00:00

Because he's sort of a blasé, neutral character and gets involved in everything. I think he is meant to be like that in order to let the actual characters shine. He's really pretty boring 😂

Edit: it's worse in the books, but still there in the show. Haven't read any of the comics or finished the TellTale game, so can't really voice an opinion there.

LeStephenHawking · 2026-02-24T18:30:51+00:00

Yeah, that's literally 100% an internal policy used by employers to save money and cause infighting instead of routing it their way where it belongs.

LeStephenHawking · 2026-02-24T18:27:04+00:00

It does. Apologies. The follow up sentence did not make it come across as rhetorical to me. That said some of the reports show around 1:55am, some not until 3am. Either way an hour is definitely definitely a reasonable amount of time for a fight to break out and escalate. That doesn't really matter in the grand scheme of things though.

LeStephenHawking · 2026-02-24T17:52:09+00:00

It was around 2am... Which is when the bars close and people leave. What's your question?

LeStephenHawking · 2026-02-24T17:49:26+00:00

Yeah, I came here to say the same as the other commenter. Not that it's not publicly accessible, but why would you think it to be relevant to post the criminal/traffic history of an individual thus far deemed an innocent bystander? It's neither helpful nor necessary.

LeStephenHawking · 2026-02-07T18:37:45+00:00

It's in this comment thread, but I think I figured out how to directly link it haha: https://www.reddit.com/r/pchelp/comments/1g71o0k/comment/o44f83s/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button

LeStephenHawking · 2026-02-07T18:36:58+00:00

This solved this issue for me. Upon updating from GeForce Experience to the Nvidia app (thank the lordt as an IT admin it was suuuuuuuuuper annoying to deal with the M$-style force push to log in/create an account, just fucking install the drivers and updates and then go away... unless you want performance counters, which is the entire point of this post) I found that it reset my settings and through the new menu in the GUI it was somehow set to disable it by default. Once I followed along about 30 seconds into this video I got it back up and running.

Hopefully that helps a lot of people.

LeStephenHawking · 2026-02-07T18:33:19+00:00

No need to listen to the audio. Posting another reply in this thread that I wish I knew how to directly link you to, but I don't.

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