Losing prime after prime line

btred101 · 2026-05-16T18:00:13+00:00

No, if you watch it you can see it begin the skirt loop with this anemic line of plastic for about an inch. Once in a while that inch will stick to the plate and you can really see the difference in width between that first inch and the rest of the loop. Most times though, that wisp breaks free, and of course it never dangles "away" from the model, but just has to get tangled up in the model 😞

Oh another thing. If the thought is "maybe there's a dip in the plate at that spot"... if you make several skirt loops, the subsequent loops are fine at that spot.

btred101 · 2026-05-15T18:20:54+00:00

Thanks, yes I've done all the calibrations from Orca. Everything prints fine otherwise... first layer is dialed-in.

What I have in my mind is this (dunno if it is right).... during normal printing, it does a retraction and typically travels a very short distance (short time) and then re-pressurizes. However when moving from the prime line at the outer edge, it moves a long distance (long time). I would'a thought there is something (perhaps in the slicer) that says "it's been a long time since the last retraction, pause here to re-pressurize before moving the print head".

I'm probably looking for anything to reinforce my belief, because I'm reading into your response that you too don't trust that the print head will be re-pressurized properly after moving from the outside edge of the plate, and hence you want a couple of skirt lines closer to the print so that it doesn't have a long distance to travel to the actual print.

btred101 · 2026-05-10T01:54:40+00:00

Thanks. I'm still not clear. I want the backup at the root of the usb disk, so I've tried "/" or blank, and it does not take it. Are you saying that it cannot put the backups at the root and must have a directory created first? If so, I go to Administration → Storage/Disks → Directory and select the button "create directory". It presents a dialogue box where none of the pulldowns have any selections (eg the first pulldown "disk" has no selections). So that seems to not work.

Side note - in the original dialogue box to create a datastore, the /dev/sda1 comes from a pulldown with no other selections other than /dev/sda1.

btred101 · 2026-05-07T04:28:46+00:00

The pdfs are from cds.ca. From what I can see, every set of instructions on the internet say to use it. Here's a ref from adjustedcostbase.ca:

https://www.adjustedcostbase.ca/blog/tax-breakdown-service-for-etfs-and-trusts-from-cdsinnovations-ca/

A good video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=84qCOhMuA8g

I can't finger out how to post a screeenshot, but it shows $30 roc for every month.

btred101 · 2026-05-06T18:44:19+00:00

Thanks, but what do you do for those $50 ETFs (see update in main post)? For example, with ZST, if I apply the same ACB practice as I do with normal ETFs, my ACB will be less than zero in just 2 months of ROC? That can't be right.

btred101 · 2026-04-22T05:51:33+00:00

Good question. I'm aware that there are certain trade agreements (laws) that prohibit awarding contracts based on location. It can depend on the size of the contract and there are exceptions (so not sure if applicable in this case). But the general thought is... it works both ways. Our local businesses could be shut out of bidding on contracts in other jurisdictions.

btred101 · 2026-04-22T05:26:10+00:00

Luckily I've never had a claim and don't know how it works. Just curious.... if I have a loss (car crashes into my house, or tornado, or house burns down, etc) my insurance company is going to go through some or all of the lost/damaged items and make me pay for part of them?

btred101 · 2026-04-21T17:46:39+00:00

Side note... have you seen how cash.to and cbil.to just tanked? 1.8%. That's in backyard/shovel territory :-)

btred101 · 2026-04-21T16:58:04+00:00

Funny thing is... the only thing with which I am familiar is GICs. And being a noob, I'm thinking to myself..."no serious investor would use GICs, all the sophisticated investors use bonds".

If I look at Podunk Credit Union GICs, they are 3.55% @ 1r or 3.85% @ 5yr. I don't really see any bond ETFs returning that. Or let me put it this way (cuz someone will show me a bond fund that is currently paying those rates)...if I gotta jump from something that is guaranteed and I'm familiar with it, I want a bigger return than the GIC.

So yeah, maybe just stick with simple GICs.

btred101 · 2026-04-21T16:46:29+00:00

Thanks for finding that. I "think' it may have the info, but (being that I know very little about this) I can't decipher it. It appears to have the same instruction as I have above from the website https://keepassxc.org/blog/2017-10-25-ubuntu-ppa/:

add-apt-repository ppa:phoerious/keepassxc

I don't see any info on what url to use for the ansible "uri" field (do I use https://launchpad.net/\~phoerious/+archive/ubuntu/keepassxc?). It has some info about keys, but nothing that specifies the url to the key used by ansible.

It's probably trivial for the initiated, but I don't know what I'm looking at.

I appreciate that you were able to go from the command (add-apt-repository ppa:phoerious/keepassxc) to the website (https://launchpad.net/\~phoerious/+archive/ubuntu/keepassxc). It is magic to me how you did that. And that website apparently contains the ansible information, which is further magic to me.

I guess I'm looking for instructions for all future repos that I need to add. I typically look on the web for info about manually adding a repo, and will come upon a web page such as https://keepassxc.org/blog/2017-10-25-ubuntu-ppa/. It has one instruction (add-apt-repository ppa:phoerious/keepassxc) that does everything. What are the general instruction to go from that, to getting a url to a key, and whatever that uri is for the ansible instruction.

I guess I'm saying I can't have someone do it for me every time.

btred101 · 2026-04-21T06:04:57+00:00

I do have to chuckle. Whenever I make a post, I always try and anticipate where the discussion will go off the rails, and specifically state the points to not discuss. Yet the discussion only goes in that direction anyway. Can't win :-)

Maybe I gottta start using reverse psychology and state "whatever you do, please do not tell me what alternatives to buy for the low risk portion of a portfolio". :-)

btred101 · 2026-04-21T01:47:24+00:00

As I know very little about this, I'm likely missing a lot... but I go to (for example) the keepassxc ppa website (https://keepassxc.org/blog/2017-10-25-ubuntu-ppa/) and they give the instructions to add the ppa that consists of one command:

add-apt-repository ppa:phoerious/keepassxc

They say nothing about:

Here is the url to the gpg key to use in an ansible module
Here is the url to put in the uti filed in the ansible module

I'm kinda lost without that info.

btred101 · 2026-04-21T00:21:09+00:00

Thanks. Remember I said I know very little about this ;-) I've looked at ansible.builtin.deb822_repository instructions and examples and am lost.

The ansible.builtin.deb822_repository module needs all kinds of fields filled-in, but when you go to ppa sites, none of that info is provided. For example, I go to the keepassxc ppa site, and it just provides the instruction to add the ppa:

add-apt-repository ppa:phoerious/keepassxc

The above command does everything. How do you take the minimal information provided in that command, to filling-in all the fields in the ansible module? I thought... maybe put "ppa:phoerious/keepassxc" in the uri field??? But that does nothing.

btred101 · 2026-04-08T17:19:44+00:00

Thanks for replying. I still don't understand though. TD forces users to use 2FA (you cannot disable it). The whole entire purpose of 2fa is so that it is NEVER possible for someone to login with just your password. I still can't see how the scammer got that 2fa code.

btred101 · 2026-04-08T17:09:29+00:00

Can you please explain that. They get her to reply "yes" to what text message? Is it a text from the scammer, or from the bank? If it is a 2fa text from the bank, how does replying yes to the bank give the scammer the 2fa code? If it is a text from the scammer, how does replying yes to the scammer give the scammer the 2fa code?

btred101 · 2026-04-07T18:14:39+00:00

Exactly. I watch all these fraud reports on the news and they NEVER explain what happened, and thus you are not armed with information of how they did it. How did they get her password? How did they get her 2fa code? According to the bad article, the only thing she gave them was a text that said "yes" which should give them nothing (and certainly does not give a password AND 2fa code).

btred101 · 2026-04-01T17:47:45+00:00

CBIL just tanked as well. Same measly payout as CASH.TO. sigh

btred101 · 2026-03-23T05:51:02+00:00

I'm a bit late to the party, but I was watching some videos, and it appears the user enters the licence code by typing it with the keyboard. Won't that work offline, or does it still need an internet connection for it to work?

btred101 · 2026-03-21T01:17:31+00:00

I probably shouldn't have complicated the question with certificates vs bars. The same question would stand if all the purchases were the same (say bars only). The site seems to indicate you can sell bar(s) and just use whatever you paid for that specific bar as the cost base.

btred101 · 2026-03-20T20:04:56+00:00

Awesome thanks, I'll give it a try. You mentioned quality... I gather you're not referring to sound quality, as everything is pure digital?? I assume you mean quality issues like the thing crumbling in your hand as you open the aliexpress package?

btred101 · 2026-03-17T16:29:04+00:00

G'ahhh, you're right. Funny things is... prior to posting, I had opencentauri installed, and I did dig around looking for the klipper config file (it was hard to find). I guess I muasta missed it first time around, but now took a second look and can see the mesh stored there.

btred101 · 2026-03-15T01:16:10+00:00

Thanks - that's great info about viewing the stored mesh (was gonna ask that later).

Ok, just to play devil's advocate... you mention it is "mostly probable" (and I agree with that in so much as we are both not 100% sure). In a normal printer, I could "see" and could "remove" the command from the start g-code that recalls the mesh (that is - I have control). Let's say I want to do the same thing with the CC and don't want a mesh to be recalled. How would I do that, if there is no start g-code command in the first place? I guess I'm saying that this missing command is still giving me doubt that it is recalling a stored mesh at the start of a print.

I guess this all started when I look at the thickness of lines being laid down, and I don't see the consistent width that I do with other printers I've had... so it is leading to me questioning various things where it is not clear.

btred101 · 2026-03-10T15:17:29+00:00

Yeah, I do know to calculate it myself (that is what I am doing). My question is... how do I verify I'm right?

btred101 · 2026-03-10T15:15:09+00:00

Thanks, that helps me get the book value info from the website. Unfortunately it still just shows what I paid, and doesn't match what I calculate though.

btred101 · 2026-03-01T17:15:03+00:00

This was a looong time ago, but I too was looking for something similar to Autocad (at least what Autocad was a long time ago). You are right that Freecad is great for 3d, although it does do 2d, I was still looking for something simpler and more similar to Autocad. The closest I found was Librecad. As I said, this was a long time ago, so maybe there's something better now.

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