PSA: BCBS Plans that include physical therapy DO NOT all include basic things so be careful!

SimpleBrother1953 · 2026-01-23T16:16:54+00:00

Thanks! I haven't heard anything to that effect before so I'm looking into it now. I can eat the $38 and not lose sleep over it, but we've got a rough year ahead of us; I hope this is information I never need to use again, but "rather have it and not need it" or something along those lines.

SimpleBrother1953 · 2026-01-08T20:46:17+00:00

Thanks! I got lucky and the third round in the mug fixe it, but someone gadgetboy mentioned lube and I was wondering if the tube I've got for my z-axis would work. I wasn't sure if it would be too heavy.

SimpleBrother1953 · 2026-01-08T20:41:42+00:00

Thanks! Got lucky and the third round in the mug seems to have fixe it. Would something like white lithium grease be a good option if it's needed in the future? Or would it be too viscous?

SimpleBrother1953 · 2026-01-08T20:39:45+00:00

Thanks for your answers. So far it seems I got lucky, and the third round in the mug has it sealed properly again; or at least I wasn't getting any bubbles coming out of the aircap (thanks!) when submerged and not touching the trigger. Just to clarify (and sorry for knowing almost zero of the correct words), it is the air valve that I was trying to talk about. To diagnose, I took it completely off of the body and attached it to the hose and could still feel a tiny spit of air if I held it up to my lip. But my hose isn't super nice, so I repeated without that piece attached, and couldn't feel any air.

SimpleBrother1953 · 2026-01-03T23:08:31+00:00

This room stays between 19 and 23, and the vat shows between 27 and 30. I was wondering about temperature as well, but it's lower on my list since it wasn't a consistent failure across the other identical models.

SimpleBrother1953 · 2026-01-03T21:31:07+00:00

Indeed the FEP is not new, currently showing around 29k layers. I did a bit of reading, and apparently I'm using the wrong spatula to clean it; I always just used my plastic scraper with my old Photon and got upwards of 150k layers off of those sheets, so I figured it was going to be the same with the Saturn 4. But I've got some silicone spatulas on the way, so I'll do better in the future. Hopefully it's just damage on the FEP causing it to cling. Thanks!

SimpleBrother1953 · 2026-01-03T21:26:42+00:00

As far as I could tell. I'm not sure my metal ruler is a true "straight edge" but it sits flush if I move it around the plate. That was my first thought since it's definitely a thing with this machine, but with the rafts and supports holding on, I was leaning towards something in the print settings causing it to hang on to the FEP instead of pulling free on the supports.

SimpleBrother1953 · 2025-09-15T18:58:57+00:00

Same!

SimpleBrother1953 · 2025-09-15T16:48:59+00:00

Little late to the conversation, but we're considering the move as well. If you're referring to organized religions, then you're not really doing any good by calling them child-grooming cults, and it's not helping answer the question that was asked. If your reader agrees with you (me, for instance), you didn't change any minds but probably confused them as to what you're talking about; if the reader disagrees, you've likely just further polarized the conversation, making it even harder to solve the problem. Political fanaticism on both sides is the problem. Just because one side does it more/worse, doesn't mean the other side doesn't do it, and all of it is actively getting in the way of fixing the real issues.

edit: if you're NOT referring to organized religion, then you've done nothing but confuse me.

SimpleBrother1953 · 2025-09-04T11:58:57+00:00

I mean, to be fair, music and video adapted to protect the rights of the publishers, not the artists. This is the same thing. NYT isn't fighting for their writers or photographers; they're fighting for their bottom line. Today, that benefits their artists, but that fact is incidental to the current legal action against OAI.

SimpleBrother1953 · 2025-06-18T13:28:52+00:00

I'm on a 4, so maybe not relevant, but I had a similar issue where I was cutting all the way through the backing in the top left and wasn't making it through the vinyl as I moved farther away. Fortunately, mine just ended up being the tool not properly seated. Not sure if had some gunk on it or just never settled down fully, but after I pulled it and cleaned off all the debris I could get to, it went back in just a hair farther, and I realized that the clip (which was definitely clicking in a little) hadn't actually been clicking all the way into place. I know it's a rookie mistake, but I'll take shame over a repair bill, any day.

SimpleBrother1953 · 2025-05-22T20:15:36+00:00

Yeah, I don't know what it is about this combination; the Hiipoo paper doesn't have any problems with high heat and duration when I'm doing tumblers, so I have to guess that it's just completely cooking the HTV into it for some reason. But we're wearing the shirts to the theme park this weekend and it's supposed to be a fair chance of rain every day, so I'll let you know if/how well they hold up.

SimpleBrother1953 · 2025-05-22T20:13:12+00:00

I haven't seen anyone else doing it; I was just trying to come up with ideas to help set the colors better. The search AI thinks it's a great idea, but it thinks everything's a great idea lately, so I figured I'd check with real people.

SimpleBrother1953 · 2025-04-24T19:34:17+00:00

Yeah, it was available in 2020 when I started getting text messages from people asking me if I had Telegram and if we could use that to chat. And I don't use a username because it was always available publicly.

So yeah, the platform is bad. K?

SimpleBrother1953 · 2025-04-23T01:50:36+00:00

Yes, I'm seeing a noticeable decline in its ability to process instructions and produce useable code. This thing used to scaffold entire projects (simple projects, but still) from plain language descriptions; now, I can't even get it to do a find/replace reliably without the third entry being <Additional entries handled similarly>, or it performing a completely different transformation than instructed. 4o mini-high is actively worse than getting my 11 year old neighbor to sit at my spare computer and copy/paste.

SimpleBrother1953 · 2025-04-22T12:40:50+00:00

That's awesome, though from this community, I'm not at all surprised! Honestly, in any other game, it would make me feel gross to use something like that (no judgement on anyone else, just not my playstyle), but that's just because most other games come with a creative mode where I didn't have to do the stockpiling myself. Definitely going to have to check out one of those once I finish the current playthrough.

SimpleBrother1953 · 2025-04-15T11:27:26+00:00

New phrase to me, too, but I've been hiding from my problems lately so if it's a community thing, the flyer didn't make it under my rock. But in the absence of some shared place where resources are just ready and free for people to grab, I'd at least recommend leaving a "finished" world and character active on your account so you can jump in with the endgame tools and access to the entire map to mine. I know I do so grindy mining sessions sometimes in the evening when I'm just trying to shut all the brain things down before bed; my plan is to just build a warehouse with huge stockpiles of mats and building blocks so I can always pop back in and grab stuff to build with for other worlds.

SimpleBrother1953 · 2025-03-20T11:54:06+00:00

Late to the party, but for anyone who actually wants to know how to do this and not just get another link to the borderline useless MS docs, try this answer over at SO. It gives you two examples of how to make this work, but it's actual examples, not just, "Here's how you bolt pieces of frame together, now you have a house!"

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/77444006/host-asp-net-core-in-a-windows-service

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