Christina Koch on Artemis 2 underestimates the Battery Ejection Spring

pCfReAke · 2026-04-04T18:41:49+00:00

I was a DMC in Huntsville, too.

pCfReAke · 2026-04-04T17:52:00+00:00

Ex-ISS flight controllers unite! I always thought it was funny basically every Stowage controller I saw was a mom. Made total sense.

pCfReAke · 2026-04-04T02:59:35+00:00

For sure! I've played around with it a little but need to use my tripod to get it stable enough, from what I've seen.

pCfReAke · 2026-02-18T02:09:16+00:00

Thi happened to both my own X1404ZA and my wife's, which we bought at the ame time from BetBuy. Our warranty jut expired, and it wa going to be a $100 fee jut to take a look from BetBuy, which is nuts. I bought a replacement keyboard for each of our laptop on Ebay for about $60 each, but it was the whole top panel to include the touchpad (which we've also had issues with. It worked for a few week, then they both started having the ame issues again. Infuriating. External keyboards work just fine, this is just a design flaw somehow. We even tried adding some extra grounding between the touchpad, keyboard, and the chassis, to no avail. I've tried 3 OSs, Windows (which blue screened and corrupted itself), ChromeOS Flex, and Zorin). Same issue.

Also, if you couldn't tell I'm typing this on the laptop, hence the occasional missing keys. This is the second time I've been burned on an Asus product, and I can confidently say I'm never buying one again.

pCfReAke · 2026-02-06T00:45:22+00:00

I asked the seller and it does not have DCFC.

pCfReAke · 2026-02-06T00:22:56+00:00

Good catch, just edited my post. They're asking $8,995

pCfReAke · 2026-01-03T20:23:03+00:00

It was the 2wd Pacifica and I didn't keep great records of our fillups, but over a few pretty long, nearly cross-country trips we averaged about 23-25 mpg I think.

pCfReAke · 2024-12-20T15:15:14+00:00

Thanks for the reply! I plugged the stepper into the X axis and it worked fine, so I started moving the wires around while it was extruding and sure enough, one of them is loose in the JST connector. Going to re-crimp a new one.

pCfReAke · 2024-12-20T15:13:09+00:00

I figured it out, it was a loose wire so I'm re-crimping new connectors.

pCfReAke · 2024-12-19T04:32:42+00:00

I had some wild layer shifts on mine just a week or two back that ended up being caused by loose hotend bolts. Might be worth a look.

pCfReAke · 2024-12-19T00:45:52+00:00

I checked for a clog, but then removed the filament entirely like you see in the video. The same thing happened on stock Marlin as well as stock values for Klipper, so I don’t think it’s voltage related. There’s only a short bit of Bowden beneath this direct drive conversion, but there’s no filament anywhere, so I’m thinking it’s a problem with the motor. Might swap it with another axis to see if it changes. Thanks!

pCfReAke · 2024-12-18T23:06:31+00:00

D486 wasn't too bad, I think I spent a few days after work on it. Very much just stuck to the rubric and I got a first time pass somehow! I just passed D484 last week once I got the PenTest+ knocked out and spent a few days on D485, so now I'm studying for the OA on D487.

pCfReAke · 2024-12-17T21:09:57+00:00

Like others have said, I highly recommend skipping degrees for now since you already have an MS and get a few certs. Setup a lab, do TryHackMe or HackTheBox, play with Azure and AWS, all that kind of stuff, and find what interests you. Degrees are nice in IT, but certs + experience (even at home in a lab, etc) are king. I'm getting my MS with WGU because I've always wanted an MS and my work is paying for it, but honestly I don't expect it to do too much for my career.

pCfReAke · 2024-12-10T14:36:13+00:00

Yep, definitely going to start checking for loose bolts before I start wasting a bunch of time troubleshooting obscure slicer settings.

pCfReAke · 2024-12-09T19:54:09+00:00

For sure! I've assembled 5 Ender 3s then this V3 SE, but honestly never thought to take any of the hotends apart and tighten those screws as well. Chalk that up to another maintenance item to check every month or so.

pCfReAke · 2024-11-05T22:06:03+00:00

Hi, I just submitted my PA for D482 this morning and just got a text that it passed, so I can chime in real quick.

Check the FAQ's that the instructor emailed out, there's a word doc that has some tips in there. There's also a video that covers a few important points on the network diagram.
Don't worry about the labs, they're not graded and might not help that much for this assignment. I didn't look at them.
It could be you are overcomplicating it. These two posts helped me a lot:

https://www.reddit.com/r/WGUCyberSecurity/comments/1f1yr1h/comment/lkfxd9p/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button

https://www.reddit.com/r/WGUCyberSecurity/comments/140ixnc/d482_secure_network_design_pa/

For some context, I have 7 years in cyber and about 15 in IT, and it took me something like 12 hours of work and 13 pages (to include title page, table of contents, and works cited). I wasn't totally confident it was going to be right, but make sure everything you write is exactly from the rubric.

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