So that’s why Instagram is the way it is, i assumed it was fairly small but it has attracted a rather toxic userbase and i don’t actually enjoy it anymore.

It used to be a place where i could share my joys and people with similar interests would follow me because they enjoy my joys too.

But now it’s just tiktok, at least i assume seeing it’s all reels and loud noises.

Wait…so, if i understand this correctly yeah…the Deck might upen us all up to a future of Linux as our operating system as gamers?

Seeing how popular it is etc, might that actually be on purpose? Excuse me being dumb, i just play games and that’s it basically no real computer tech knowledge.

I just want to point this out: Louis Rossman is trying to fix this in a way, by allowing people to subscribe to a person and not one of their platforms, so if they get banned their new platform of choice will show up to all of their subscribers instead of them having to try and move their audience to a new nearly unused platform.

Not yet, i’m still working on getting it all back together as i need different connectors and some other hardware.

I thought it would be an easy way to save roughly €100, but alas.

I have a copy of my current settings, dimensions etc. So it should get me some safe variables to start it up once it’s time to test if everything is ok.

If you’re wondering why i haven’t replied yet…a friend said it should be easy to put the 5 pro mainboard into my 5 plus, so i decided: “might as well as it’s already apart for upgrades and maintenance”

Turns out it’s not that simple and requires a fair deal of adjustments like the bltouch connector and it only has on Z stepper motor connector on the board.

And i need to figure out how to do the firmware etc…

I have a different one apparently, the bondtech ddx. It comes with it’s own smaller stepper motor. I ordered a new gear either way since they have an upgraded version now, but mine seem to be on a round axle with bearings.

Little addition though, i completely took apart the extruder to check. The gear that is directly on the extruder is STUCK on there lol. The other secondary gears are on bearings and all still look brand new apart from a tiny amount of filament shavings that i cleaned out right away.

It might be in part that i messed up the thumb screw tightness because i wasn’t aware of their specific instructions. I usually just tightened it to: “meh, feels right” and haven’t had a similar issue before.

My printer is in parts atm as i ordered a new hotend, i’m still waiting for replacement springs as i broke one within 10 minutes of receiving the hot end.

I got my e3d hotend and it took me a full 6 minutes to break it. I turned the bottom to line up the cables so it would fit in the bondtech thing and i managed to bend the spring enough that i couldn’t remove the nozzle anymore.

In an attempt to free it i completely fucked up the spring, so i’m back to ordering parts again.

I did something dumb a while ago, when i was moving i lost the cable to my printer as i never needed it.

Turns out it was a mini USB which i haven’t seen in any device in the past 10 years(jk), so i only have 2 micro sd cards.

I could try to flash a fresh copy of marlin, i’m currently installing an e3d hotend too so i might as well go for a full reset.

But i haven’t flashed a marlin copy yet, i only did one from creality. I hope everything works out when i do.

I have an ender 5+ with a bondtech direct drive extruder. I don’t see any grub screws on it.

That is way above my knowledge level, damn. Usually what i’ve found on google is that people have a different issue that causes this to happen like a different printer that uses another flavour of gcode that doesn’t use the start gcode.

None of the things i’ve found so far has fixed my issue.

In the past i would do a fresh calibration of all the different settings and eventually the printer would start behaving again.

I’m going to have to do that either way as i have a new hot end coming in today for this printer.

You could just make a thing when you feel like it and throw it up for sale, that’s my idea but tbh i haven’t been able to keel my printer working throughout a single project so nothing ever gets done.