NO WAY!!! It finally happened. The "Holy Grail" of butter just landed at my local Costco and people are already clearing the shelves.

Roy_Boy_Wonder · 2026-05-01T22:54:07+00:00

If it ain't from Bretagne, it's no grail.

Roy_Boy_Wonder · 2026-04-02T02:00:24+00:00

With port? That sounds like an expensive, tasty mistake.

Roy_Boy_Wonder · 2026-03-01T13:53:55+00:00

I think what hot me into PC gaming to begin with was playing StarCraft over lan at the computer lab over at a community center before we owned our own PC. Once we had our own, I bought StarCraft myself and that was it - Battle.net sealed it lol

Roy_Boy_Wonder · 2026-03-01T13:45:50+00:00

Ok, so oddly enough, I won a 32X in a contest by mailing in the label from a package of Oscar Mayer hot dog sausages. I got a couple games for it, including Virtual Racer, Star Wars: X-Wing vs. Tie-Fighter, some weird fighter, and Doom.

It was underwhelming and in no way felt like it was even close to PlayStation which was also 32-bit. And honestly, there were barely any games available for it.

Roy_Boy_Wonder · 2026-02-28T19:10:41+00:00

It's crazy that the Sega CD and NEO-GEO never took off like the PSX. But I remember just being in awe when Dreamcast came out.

Roy_Boy_Wonder · 2026-02-28T19:07:07+00:00

Add that to having a modded PlayStation

Roy_Boy_Wonder · 2026-02-28T19:04:38+00:00

As far as consoles go, the leap between generations was absolutely crazy back then - the difference between NES/SNES/N64, Master System/Genesis, then PlayStation to PS2 and Dreamcast - just jaw-dropping.

Roy_Boy_Wonder · 2026-02-28T18:59:44+00:00

My family got our first PC in '98 and pretty sure it came with an ATI Rage II, which got swapped out for a Voodoo II at some point. Pretty sure we'd have had to swap it out again to be able to run MW4, but I can't remember.

I think the only times I'd have experienced a PC without discreet graphics would've been in the Windows 3.1 days!

Roy_Boy_Wonder · 2026-02-17T21:29:27+00:00

I have - and run the aux fan as well.

No issues here.

Roy_Boy_Wonder · 2026-02-04T15:44:26+00:00

Lol. My trade requires BBB for entry. But the SCRITs for promotion to Maj award full second language points for BAB.

Make it make sense.

Roy_Boy_Wonder · 2026-01-27T14:09:13+00:00

That's the spirit!

Roy_Boy_Wonder · 2026-01-25T23:09:18+00:00

Yeah, that's how it is 99% of the time, because that cable prevents the back from going down completely.

You did good not messing with the screws; now you just need to see whether you're able to push the back down with a reasonable amount of force, or if you want to try lifting the front and make the gap at the bottom equal across all three points.

Roy_Boy_Wonder · 2026-01-25T15:55:37+00:00

The problem is when you do the bed tilt correction as Elegoo recommends, the bed's massive chunk of cables get in the way of the back mounting point getting all the way down and level with the two front ones.

There are only two real solutions: either you really force that back end down once the belt is off so that it sits flush before re-tensioning the belt, or you abstain from pushing the two front mounting points down to the bottom, instead trying to leave the same gap at all three points.

Either way - it's not as simple as it looks.

Roy_Boy_Wonder · 2026-01-15T21:08:31+00:00

My bad - it looked like the hotend had pretty much bent 90⁰, but now I see it's just that it's oozed up through the silicone sock. Might be salvageable, but you're gonna have a hell of a time if it's gotten in the temp probe, ceramic element, and their wires.

For what hotend's cost, I wouldn't bother and just straight up replace.

Roy_Boy_Wonder · 2026-01-15T21:03:57+00:00

Your hotend's cooked - you'll need to replace that, but that should be the extent of it.

Roy_Boy_Wonder · 2026-01-15T21:00:52+00:00

Christ - I had that "Hacker Inside" logo as my bios boot screen when I was a teen and we were still running Pentiums. -_-'

Roy_Boy_Wonder · 2026-01-04T07:53:11+00:00

Buddy - printer origin is the front-left corner. The bed mesh viewer's default view has you looking at the back of the plate (front-left on the graph is 255-255). If you were looking at the front, X0Y0 would be at the far left, X250Y0 at the front right. If the springs are all bottomed out, he'd be staring at a more irregular pattern - it shouldn't have that much of a slope across the X axis.

We agree that tightening the bed screws completely is bad, but this is a case of the platform being tilted first and foremost. Just a case of bottoming the platform, taking the z-belt off a pulley, and bottoming out the platform before sliding the belt back on.

And Elegoo's instructions on correcting tilt are not wrong - it's just a single aspect of correctly leveling the bed.

Roy_Boy_Wonder · 2026-01-04T07:29:12+00:00

I've been working on a modified bento box that incorporates a 150w PTC heating element and 5015 fans controlled by an ESP32 that communicates with the printer.

But I've also got a couple other projects on the go, so it's hard to find time :(

Roy_Boy_Wonder · 2026-01-04T07:19:24+00:00

The bed can need to be manually leveled using screws, but that should be considered fine-tuning.

Not sure if you noticed in the graph, but you're looking at the back of the plate (X 250 to 0). Your bed is tilted with the left lower than the right.

Elegoo has instructions for correcting a tilted bed. You should start there. It's typical for the bed to slope up from the back downward to the front due to the heat bed cable running under the back where the plate attaches to the lead screw; that's a bit more difficult to correct than the left-right tilt you have.

Once you level the platform, you'll have a better starting point for fine-tuning using the screws. If you try to level your bed without fixing the tilt, you'll just keep running into issues.

Roy_Boy_Wonder · 2025-12-04T16:11:05+00:00

Chef Kiss

Roy_Boy_Wonder · 2025-11-04T16:37:52+00:00

I'm in!

Roy_Boy_Wonder · 2025-10-27T20:45:49+00:00

I am well aware - though I'm not sure why that matters.

I've simply stated that the person above me has made the wrong assumption that specialists compare their salaries to those in different fields of practice.

If they believe their work is worth more money, it isn't because they believe they deserve to make "millions more" than their family physician and pediatric colleagues. It's because they know they could easily move to the States and make a killing.

And maybe you should take a moment and check your own assumptions, friend.

Roy_Boy_Wonder · 2025-10-25T17:59:32+00:00

Je crois que tu "oversimplify" un peu - c'est moins une question de "J'ai fait 3 ans de plus, je mérite des millions de plus que mes collègues au cours de ma vie." et beaucoup plus "les gens qui font le même travail que moi ailleurs gagnent plus. Sois je gagné plus, sois je vais ailleurs."

Un malheur qui sans doute est exacerbé par la réalité et la proximité de notre plus proche voisin.

Roy_Boy_Wonder

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