I have resumed the folly of 3d printing after a nearly year long hiatus

place your bets until how long it'll be until I'm ranting about how printers are a sin against man and god

crashed my slicer

I'm printing a calibration cube because I don't know what state I left this printer in.

presumably in the standard state of "it kinda works but I don't trust it"

crashed my slicer again
and again
third attempt worked.
I probably should have updated octoprint before hitting go, and I probably should have done some manually leveling, but hey, it seems to be printing so far.
also the filament has been sitting in a garage, loaded into the printer, for a year.
it's probably really shit by now. as soon as the cube finishes I'm gonna need to swap to something, anything, else
there's a lot of work that can and should be done on this printer, but it's all gonna be limited by the fact I can't stand up for more than 5 minutes
well, there's something going on with the z-axis, but it printed more or less.

I've also got to switch to a different power supply for the pi that's running octoprint, and upgrade the pi to a new OS (which requires backing up and restoring existing octopi settings) because my python is EOL.

so it's working, but I'm still sighing a lot

anyway I loaded new filament and I'm printing a chep cube again!
wow it's terrible

@foone Oh, I have one of those. Mine's blue.

It's kind of an heirloom from my dad.

@kawa your dad was a 3d printerer?

@foone He dabbled. I helped blender up some simple models for some of his projects, and he got me a green scale model of the #Asspull3X. Which is *slightly* peelable compared to the cube, Grogu, and prototype device faceplate, and the only green print of his that I have, so that's interesting.

I wonder who got his printer?

@foone I also wonder where the fuck the calipers he left me to measure out that device faceplate went off to. Should be *somewhere* in my apartment...