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

okay I printed a CE5P calicat after attempting to fix the z-offset issue. It still is horrible.

possibly this is mostly a temperature issue: I'm using the stock temperatures but I think I upgraded this to an all-metal hotend that needs to run higher?

include the photo, foone
@foone i dont know what those rings around the print are for, i assuming that they're an extra way to make sure the print bed is level. but it makes me think that the printer is making a summoning circle to conjure the print lol
@sudo_EatPant yeah they're a summoning circle. 3d printing is forbidden magic