I got the magazines that came with BASIC programs printed in them, you could pay extra to get a subscription that included a tape with the code so you didn't have to type the whole thing in and risk typos.

That early foray into BASIC was essential for my early involvement in technology, in spite of what Dijkstra said that one time....

I was given a bunch of old Compute!'s Gazettes by an uncle who'd moved onto PCs from his Commodore 64. I did not get the benefit of the tape or disk option unfortunately, but as a result, many of those magazines are bedaubed with felt-tip where I marked my progress whiling away hours typing in those programs.

I learned so much about the Commodore 64 from those magazines.

By the time I got my C64C in the '90s, magazines had long since stopped publishing code listings due to cost. If they'd continued to do so, magazines would have been twice the price, and less than half as many people would have been able to afford them. As it was, the magazines were, by that point, at least partially subsidised by game companies who wanted to get a demo out on the tape or disk.

I'm still annoyed my subscription to one of those magazines ran out the month before the last ever issue. I could probably get one on eBay for a reasonable price, but it's the principle, dammit.

Edit: Better wording.

If you want stable parts, this is the little overpressure you want to have.

So this is fine.

You can reduce the perimeter/infill overlap percentage in the slicer settings to reduce this, should be around 15% of extrusion width.

And also this effect is where you see if your feed% are right to the (not everytime constant) filament diameter *mid print* to adjust it when needed on the go.

@gafu It's causing problems in narrow sections though, where it piles up so much across multiple layers I can sometimes hear the head rumble over the material. So I need to do something about it.

The overlap should be at 15%, I remember going through that setting. I'll keep investigating.

You can try to get overlap down a bit, maybe 10% in a first step, and slightly reduce overall feedrate by 2 or 3% for critical print objects, but you loose a bit of printing process safety in case of filament diameter tolerances.

I would save these settings in a special slicer profile and only use it for objects with critical pattern.

The additional material at the corners ensure a good bonding between perimeter and top/bottom layers and perimeters and infill, so its a bit more than needed to be shure it will work in the end.

The better your printer runs (no backlash on the x/y axis and precise material dosing/working extrusion path) the more you can get lower with overlap settings

Someone mentioned that there are slicer settings that specifically address the issue in narrow spaces though, I'll go with that first before going with what sounds like overall less reliable settings. Didn't have the time to test that, or even look whether PrusaSlicer has those.
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Otto Glöckner

2025-08-31 16:02:34

For small Areas there is small area flow compensation. What you have right there seems a bit like too much flow... I had this too, but since im mostly using a P1P (Bambulab) printer its not there anymore or way less. I will have a look if the other klipper pinter have this more showing.

Maybe iam outdated at this point, the old slic3r which was forked from prusa back in the days doesnt had such compensation, and the firmware related things linke pressure advance cant prevent from "on purpose built in material overload"

So i personally don't know about such thing, if it exists.

Growing up poor, I decided that I never want to live like that again. I bought into the work gospel: work hard to get a degree, get a nice job, be a productive member of society.

Well, that doesn't work for anyone. You get this temporary safety buffered by income and savings. I'm not them anymore, you tell yourself. You buy nice things for the people in your life who can't afford them, but deep down, you know they shouldn't be struggling in the first place.

The deeper you look, the more you see the systemic inequity scream out at you. You put more blinders on. Make yourself feel better through philanthropy.

"What good could I do as one person?", you ask yourself, "I'm not a billionaire. I don't even own my own home. I'm not responsible for their well-being."

In Canada, the tech salaries aren't as inflated as in the US. But then I see my friends living off disability, and friends working low-waged jobs finally feel like they've "made it" at $50k (Canadian)/yr, and it's a shit job. But they can never leave it because they believe that it's the best they can get. And there they are, a decade later, still at the same pay.

The wealth gap is killing us.

You can't rest because you'll be poor.
You can't be unemployed because you'll be poor.
You can't fight for better working conditions because you'll be fired, then poor.

Nowhere in here did I even mention living. This fear overwhelms every part of our lives, that we're willing to give up more and more of it for money.

When do we live?
When do we find peace and belonging in community?
When do we find out that poverty can be defeated in community?
When do we defeat poverty?

You’ve written wise, experienced and knowledgeable thoughts everyone should consider and share talking with teens before they start what they think is just a job they can leave. But life happens and you could be trapped.

So many people have big dreams and think every choice is just temporary. Then the young adult thinks “oh this $20/hour job is fantastic. But when does reality come in?

My 23-year old granddaughter is moving to a far better home rented with friends. She said “Grandma, my apartment and utilities are taking almost all of my paychecks!” And at the moment she hadn’t thought about her car payments too. And she hasn’t thought past what she would do if her employer closes down her older store she works in.

@cobalt123 I'd like to live in a world where homelessness is not the result of losing your job.

This emphasis on personal responsibility is total bullshit.

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Das Bild zeigt eine beeindruckende gotische Kathedrale mit zwei hohen Türmen, die sich majestätisch über eine Stadt erhebt. Die Kathedrale ist aus Stein gebaut und hat eine komplexe Architektur mit vielen Fenstern und Verzierungen. Vor der Kathedrale fließt ein breiter Fluss, der von einer niedrigen Mauer gesäumt wird, die mit Grünery und Bäumen bedeckt ist. Im Vordergrund des Bildes ist ein ruhiger Flussabschnitt zu sehen, der von einer Gras- und Sträucherbereich begrenzt wird. Der Himmel ist blau mit einigen weißen Wolken, was auf einen sonnigen Tag hinweist. Neben der Kathedrale sind einige kleinere Gebäude zu sehen, darunter ein gelbes Gebäude mit mehreren Fenstern. Die gesamte Szene vermittelt ein Gefühl von Ruhe und historischer Bedeutung.

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