Citation needed.
Steam is a privately owned corporation that has no need to justify their extraction of maximum profits to shareholders. There’s no reason to expect them to risk destroying their incredibly profitable business to chase short-term profits.
This is the solution!
The games still run great, but the setting didn’t migrate to the new name.
The same thing happened when I first installed CachyOS; there was no compatibility tool selected by default, so almost nothing showed as playable.
It’s tightly interconnected with accessibility because alternative input systems, like eye gaze input, macros to expand text, and other accessibility tools for alternative input hardware all friends in the same types of window-agnostic input interacting. (Similarly for output hardware, I think?)
Like, custom text replacement with XCompose breaks because of how Wayland “silos” programs, which is why ~/.XCompose files only partially work in KDE Plasma. If Wayland/KDE fully implemented accessibility tools, then it would be possible to solve all of these problems.
Or, at least, that’s my layman’s understanding of the situation.
There was a fantastic blog post about accessibility problems with Wayland, but I think Wayland is upstream of KDE, isn’t it?
In other words, do you know if what you’re suggesting within scope, or is it upstream? Or maybe it’s both, and KDE and Wayland both need changes to enable proper accessibility?
I don’t know enough, but I’ll see if I can track down that blog post and post about accessibility. Worst case, it lets KDE devs know that accessibility with KDE/Wayland is a major issue for many users.
Edit: I found the post: My Accessibility Stack and the future on Wayland
I’m in a similar situation; I built my computer a few years ago, and now, 3+ years later, my machine would cost like ~50% more for similar specs. It’s nuts.
Like, I would be the target demographic for this, if hardware prices weren’t fucked right now. I fully intend to buy one, but only once the price drops in a couple of years, once the AI bubble bursts and chips get re-prioritized back to consumer hardware again.
If my computer died today, I’d probably try to buy a Gabecube to replace it, and install CachyOS on it to use as a desktop computer and Steam Big Picture mode for gaming with the controller. (Nothing against SteamOS — I love it on my Decks! — but I’d want something more focused on the desktop experience as my main computer.)
The original model says:
Printed in PLA, it’s probably fine.
I’d probably go for PETG, myself, since it’s more heat resistant without warping.
Regardless, you can get 4.4 of JAYO PETG or PLA for about $56 CAD (~50 + taxes), so it’s about $13/kg if you are okay with whatever colours come in a 4-pack of spools. So it’s pretty reasonable.
Tack on 1KHh per ~4 hours of print time, (PETG prints at higher heat = more energy, PLA lower) which for a case like this might be up to 2 days print time, so maybe 12 KWh, or about another $1.50 CAD-ish. Rounding up a bit for error, $15 CAD would be the materials and power cost, roughly, using some of the cheapest filament available.
The biggest cost to 3D printing is really the time and effort to set up and maintain the machines, filament, and prints, especially for one-offs, if you value your time at a reasonable wage. Finding the right model, adjusting slicer settings, and analyzing and fixing print imperfections take up most of the cost. (Not even getting to costs in time and materials iterating on prints).
Most, maybe, but off the top of my head, I can think of two easy counterexamples:
I mean, if people wanted to, they could pretty easily. .3mf and .stl files are easy to redistribute, and there are lots of 3D print model piracy groups around.
This is about the pricing of models for hobbyist use, not at all about models being for sale at all.
That is super cool! I wish I had the 50+ spare hours I imagine it would take to go down this rabbit hole… Maybe later this summer!
Thanks for sharing!
Yeah, and a lot less time, likely, too. CADing that would be pretty quick.
That’s a marketing video, of course, but that looks really good. Even ignoring everything else, multi-material TPU printing would be amaze balls since varying hardness/flexibility has so many applications.
I’m going to have a hard time not pre-ordering it to get the early bird discount, lol. I imagine it’ll be north of $1K CAD…
… Hmm. Maybe if I start a side hustle selling 3D prints, I can raise enough to buy it?
I know Creality has a reputation for inconsistency, but their hardware is also fairly easy to disassemble and fix with cheap parts, so that’s not catastrophic. I was super lucky with my Hi, only having typical issues with filament-related stuff, but I also troubleshot some problems with my friend’s Hi, and it wasn’t a big deal to fix.
Thanks for sharing!
If I could afford it, that would be my choice.
I’d probably get the Creality Sparx i7 right now, as an entry-level multicolour 3D printer. I got the Creality Hi Combo last year, and it’s been a great printer for me, and it sounds like the Sparx i7 is mostly just better.
Yeah, ‘y’ every time should be pretty safe for updates, right? Like, the reason it’s suggested is because it’s the suggested alternative for the package it’s replacing and the change has been tested by the CachyOS/Arch team(s) already.
And worst case, something big breaks when you reboot, so you roll back to before the update, wait like a week, and try again (lol).
Exactly right, which is why the hot McDonald’s coffee lawsuit had such a high penalty. They were knowingly giving near-boiling coffee to their customers to avoid giving free refills, and knew about the dangers and burns caused to their customers for years.
Punitive damages are the capitalist system answer to disregard for damages caused by products and business practices.
I suppose that makes sense. I almost entirely print short things, and when I do taller prints, it’s always single colour because it’s a functional piece.
I’m not interested in giant 3D print display art, personally, so I’ve never run into that challenge. Hell, I set my prime tower brims to 0 just to make it easier to get off the plate.
I don’t have one, but I expect they kept that default setting for the reasons outlined above, but because of a lack of poop chute.
I have a Creality Hi, and a 3D-printed poop chute off the side of the printer holds plenty of poop for typically-sized 4-colour full-purge prints.
For really huge prints, I empty once mid print, but those prints last for days anyway, so it’s no big deal.
With no need for colour/material purging, I would expect a purge tray to be plenty for a multi-toolhead printer. I can’t imagine it purges much?
I don’t see the full reason anywhere in the thread; the prime tower is essential to quality multicolour prints. Purging quickly shoots out a high volume of filament to quickly clear as much of the previous colour as possible, but then when it goes to start printing, the temperature and pressure are all out of whack and you get inconsistent flow.
So, if you skip the prime tower, you’ll get globby over extrusions and gaps from under extrusion on the first thing printed in that colour each layer, which looks terrible.
That said, the prime tower can be much smaller than default. I set mine to 3mm³ of priming and it comes out 95-100% perfect, with only very occasional blobs on the edge, which pop right off with a fingernail flick (or a deburring tool, if you’re fancy.)
Don’t skip the prime tower. I did for a few weeks before cluing in to why I was getting 1 bad print on every plate.
I suppose if you’re changing filament by layer, then you could maybe skip it, but then definitely don’t print outer wall first or you won’t get a clean print. But even then, a 3mm³ prime tower is tiny, so why risk it?
Hell, even the Snapmaker U1 uses a prime tower, and it has 4 hot ends; it’s needed to normalize the flow after a temperature/flow change (being idle). I don’t have one to test, but I expect it would greatly benefit from a bigger prime tower, since it hasn’t just been extruding filament as purge to get things flowing. But that’s just speculation, as I sadly don’t have one to test with.
That makes complete sense! Thank you. I think I have a fix, so including details below for future potential searchers:
The end of my g-code looks like this:
[... many copies of the below 10 lines + 2 comments with different X/Y values ...]
SET_VELOCITY_LIMIT ACCEL=3000 ACCEL_TO_DECEL=1500 SQUARE_CORNER_VELOCITY=8
G1 F11594.621
G1 X171.826 Y109.39 E.02808
G1 E-.8 F2400
;WIPE_START
G1 F11594.621
G1 X172.61 Y110.174
;WIPE_END
SET_VELOCITY_LIMIT ACCEL=6000 ACCEL_TO_DECEL=3000 SQUARE_CORNER_VELOCITY=12
G1 X184.059 Y110.251 Z1.76 F30000
G1 X190.225 Y110.293 Z1.76
G1 Z1.16
G1 E.8 F2400
;TYPE:Ironing
;WIDTH:0.403219
;HEIGHT:0.015
G1 F3000
G1 X190.225 Y91.775 E.04527
[... many G1 lines and one M73 ("print progress") line omitted ...]
; stop printing object Ironing_Test_LH0.16_medium_high id:0 copy 0
;TIME_ELAPSED:4501.019531
G1 E-.8 F2400
;WIPE_START
G1 F3000
G1 X171.925 Y93.707
;WIPE_END
EXCLUDE_OBJECT_END NAME=Ironing_Test_LH0.16_medium_high_id_0_copy_0
M106 S0
;TYPE:Custom
; filament end gcode
G1 X0 Y180 F8000
END_PRINT
M73 P100 R0
;TIME_ELAPSED:4502.550781
; EXECUTABLE_BLOCK_END
The first section shows z-hop (of 0.6mm) is enabled, as it moves to and from Z1.16 / Z1.76, and that it is doing a wipe on extract over and over again without affecting apparent print quality, as most ironing test patches look great. So, this confirms that z-hop is on (I’ll revert to 0.4, the default), and that Wipe while retracting is likely safe to leave on (default setting).
The problem is the ; filament end gcode section. As we can see from the Ironing g-code, it never changes from Z1.16. This confirms that @[email protected] and @[email protected] are correct; Creality Print does not add z-hop on the last layer.
The fix, I believe, is to change the Extruder’s Machine end G-code from:
G1 X0 Y180 F8000
END_PRINT
to: (comments unnecessary, of course)
G91 ; Relative movement mode
G1 Z2 F600 ; Lift nozzle 2mm
; Note: F600 is the speed I copied from the default Hi Machine start G-code: G1 Z1 F600
G90 ; Absolute movement mode
G1 X0 Y180 F8000 ; Park head
END_PRINT ; Run END_PRINT macro (heater/motor cleanup)
Thanks for your help!
Right, like what’s the ROI of a million computers switching from US-based for-profit Windows to Linux?
Funding open tools/tech/research is exactly the sort of thing that governments are best equipped to do, relative to private sector/individuals. Millions of dollars is a rounding error relative to government licensing costs to proprietary software alone, even ignoring the downstream benefits for the rest of the economy. And if we had lots of money in open software, it would attract a lot more talent to make it even better for the rest of us.
I’m not sure why there’s hate for Creality—my Hi/CFS combo has been great for me, with only occasional hiccups (in thousands of hours of print time), mostly from my inexperience (like not realizing my filament was brittle because it wasn’t dry…)
I’m really looking forward to seeing how the K3 with KliTek pans out. Allowing for zero-purge multi-material printing with TPU, including multi-hardness printing, in particular. Being able to print soft parts with TPU with (cheap) supports from a material TPU didn’t bond well with is super exciting, like slippers with durable 95A soles and softer 80A cushioning.
And, AFAIK, there’s no printer right now that allows for multi-material printing with different hardness TPU.