displaced_city_mouse

I have an older Canon MG6320 ink jet printer with a touch interface.

Lately, my cats have decided sitting on the printer (one at a time) is a good idea. I'm fine with this -- it keeps them off the desk, and they're not going to break the printer. Even if they do, well, then I get to justify getting a new printer to my partner.

Anyway, when they get on the printer, invariably they step on the power "button", which means I have to hit the power button to undo what they did:

• Turning on the printer takes rougly 1-2 seconds, and results in a short beep.
• Turning it off, even right after it was turned on, takes roughly 60 seconds, with the printer clicking and clacking and whirring and making all sorts of noises that attract cats.

I've taken to unplugging it when I don't need it.

I hate printers.

From the American Humanist Association: contact your Congresscritter - tell them to oppose H.R. 9495, the Stop Terror-Financing and Tax Penalties on American Hostages Act.

Let your Congress-critters know this is not the right thing to do.

I've a friend who lives in San Francisco who is in a moderately successful band. They recently concluded a tour through the midwest, where they played Indianapolis, Louisville, Nashville, and Chicago, among other cities. No STL dates at all.

Les Claypool's Frog Brigade is on tour as well, and skipped STL but did play in Peoria, Louisville, and KC this spring.

Last year, the closest Nightwish came was Chicago.

I get Songkick notifications for other bands -- mostly metal and eclectic -- and more often than not, they are playing everywhere but STL. After living for 20+ years in Seattle, I miss having bands come and play even the small clubs.

To avoid sounding petulant, there have been some tours I looked forward to that came to Pop's in Sauget, but I'm sure there are other bands people here like that have bypassed STL venues as well.

So: Anyone have any ideas why STL gets passed over in favor of Nashville and Louisville?

I recently had two print failures on my Ender 3 Neo. In both, it looked like the part came free from the heated build plate after about an hour or so of printing. Both had good starts in the first 15 minutes or so. I had a successful print finish two days ago.

It has been hot and humid here today, and my printer is in a non-AC shed not connected to the house.

I'm wondering if I should wait to kick off the next print until this evening when it should be cooler. Do I need to clean the build plate? I've not done that at all, other than make sure these isn't any filament left on the plate when it finishes.

UPDATE: It's apparent the problem isn't the heat, but the fact that I haven't cleaned the build plate since... well, ever. Adjusting the title to reflect that.

I took advantage of a recent offer to stock up on filament for my Ender 3 Neo. I purchased six 1Kg spools of Sunlu PLA+ Matte in grey and white colors. I loaded one of the white spools into the printer and did a small test print -- no problems, looks good, everything seemed fine.

So I decided to fire up a longer print, 8+ hours of an ocarina I downloaded from Printables and sliced using Cura Ultimaker. However, I have yet to have a successful print. Three different times, the filament has gotten bound up on the spool, so much so that the feed mechanism just gives up and the print stops. I've cancelled two of these prints after 2-3 hours when the filament got stuck on the spool.

Has anyone else seen this? Is there a fix, short of pulling it all off the spool? I've never had to, but can you even respool the filament without causing more problems? I can't babysit the printer for 8-10 hours, and would like to kick off some overnight jobs again one day...

And just like that, SCOTUS affirms that someone's deeply held beliefs are more valid and in need of protection than someone else's reality.

A story on a local organization reaching out to help the unhoused in my current area. The director of the organization is quoted using the term "unhoused", but the reporter (or their editor) decided to use the more charged term "homeless" in the by-line and the article.

From the article, when talking about the "groomer" slur aimed at LGBTQIA+ people:

"...There’s no drag queens being arrested for sexual assault of children, that doesn’t happen,” Trixie said. “Do you know where that happens? The church, okay? That’s where. This whole country mollycoddles Christians and I’m fucking tired of it, tired of it!