It’s not necessary in most cases, but it has advantages. Namely, it’s easier to work with and melts at lower temperatures (less risk of damaging components and burning yourself). Also, while lead has its risks, they’re easy enough to mitigate.

Lots of conjecture and misunderstanding in the other comments. Thanks for posting actual sources.

Be ready to replace the disk when the warranty ends.

What’s the point of replacing them? The warranty doesn’t keep them from dying, it just means you get a free replacement. The amount of life left on the drives after the warranty expires depends heavily on how they’re used, and most self hosters are pretty gentle on their drives. I could see replacing the drives that are heavily used, but replacing all drives just because their warranty expired seems like a waste of money and effort.

Only 4x? Not sure what UK rates are like, but it could easily be 10x that in the US.

Wouldn’t mind if they keep lowering power consumption…

Grapheneos isn’t rooted by default, and they recommend re-locking the bootloader after installing it, so most banking apps work.

Looks like they’re mainly used in Galaxy S phones and tables…

That’s what I do, never noticed the balls exploding. It takes about 20 minutes, but that’s the microwave’s time, not mine.

Depending on how much the investor’s interest rates are they could be covering maintenance costs, making a profit, and still charging less than a new mortgage at current interest rates. So depending on your landlord and how much profit they’re trying to squeeze, renting might be a better option than buying right now.

It’s a strawman because they’re trying to shift the focus from one thing (the system is broken) to another (Republicans are bad)

That’s a strawman argument. Pointing out that one of them is worse than the other ignores the real problem - the system is broken.

I’m not a CPA, but I don’t think you can write off something that already made a profit. How would that even work, if companies were able to write off predicted ad revenue? They could make up any value and never have to pay any taxes at all.

I don’t think write-offs have anything to do with them removing these episodes.

I don’t think they can write it off either way, though. It only makes sense to write off shows that haven’t made money. It’s just “retiring” when you’re taking about something that’s already been released. There’s no ulterior profit motive, unlike when they write off unreleased movies and shows.

What does this have to do with write-offs? I don’t think they can write off episodes of South Park and the daily show that have already aired.

I tried printing a disk with the bed at 70c and it looks better. Going to try with it even higher. This sheet has a +0.350 z offset compared to my normal PEI sheet, so that might contribute to low heat conduction.

It was out of mind until I got this new build plate with a fancy texture that I want to imprint on my prints.

This is PLA, I can’t get PETG to stick to the “PEO” bed plate.

Thanks, now I’m hungry

I tried adjusting the z offset to raise the nozzle, but it didn’t help.

My bl-touch mount broke so I’ve been doing manual bed leveling for a while. I just finished printing a 185x185mm part (half of a dactyl keyboard) and the first layer looked great from the top.

Edit: I also deleted the old bed mesh from my klipper config when the bl-touch broke