The part that really upsets me is that, when I say “I don’t like PEI, what are other, non-PEI build surfaces?” People respond with walls of text about how to print on PEI which isn’t the god damn mother fucking question I asked.

It is my understanding that sh.itjust.works is hosted on hardware that is in The_Dude’s physical possession, so I think we could manage.

I’m a CFI, I used to teach flight school. I went to A&P school. Haven’t flown since.

ABS is a well-known bastard plastic. I avoid it when I can. I print in PLA or PETG almost entirely.

Printing on glass with glue stick, I could soak the build plate in engine oil, wash it with Gojo, rinse it with tap water, dry it with the T-shirt I’ve been wearing all day, smear it with glue stick and anything an E3Dv6 will melt will stick to it.

Meanwhile y’all are out here cautioning against drying PEI with anything that has ever been in my washing machine because it might transfer trace amounts of fabric softener to the plate and I don’t have time for that mickey mouse bullshit. I ordered a power tool not a clean room experiment.

Japan?

So to that wall of text, I’ll say:

I’ve been 3D printing on glass with glue stick for a decade. The procedure for cleaning the glass has been rinse in the sink with water, wipe dry on shirt, put on printer. You can touch it with your hands, it can exist in Earth’s atmosphere…

PEI plates can’t. One fingerprint and it’s destroyed forever unless you clean it in a way the manufacturer says will destroy it forever. PEI is stupid.

I’m increasingly realizing we never had any allies, we had sniveling yes countries that probably all need bloody mouths.

Turns out I built my workshop under a black walnut tree. I didn’t recognize the thing by sight, even as it rained nuts on me.

Well, if it’s destroyed it’s destroyed. It wasn’t working worth a damn so if I’ve killed it, who cares?

Not on towels, no.

It’s also possible that it’s genuinely good for people of all ages, yet you just obsessed over it in your teens and made yourself sick of it. Like I did with Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. Which I admit appeals to the cynicism of youth, but it was recommended to me by a 50 year old, it’s not just for teenagers dammit.

Like Hyundai exists, but…

Earlier today, I stopped myself from joking that Ford had a 100% ownership of the US government, and GM had the other 100% ownership of the US government, and Fiat-Chrysler had yet another 100% ownership of the US government…but prove me wrong. Prove me wrong about Google, Microsoft, Amazon, Apple, and maybe even Netflix. Prove me wrong that BMW/Volkswagen/Mercedes doesn’t own Germany, or that Honda, Toyota and Mitsubishi don’t each wholly own Japan. I think Samsung genuinely does own South Korea, with no sarcasm or smarm, I think the East coast of Asia goes Russia, China, The People’s Republic of Korea, Samsungistan.

England? France? Italy? Who owns you?

Now let’s be clear here: I’m only inciting violence. My person committing violence may or may not occur, your honor/ladies and gentlemen of the jury.

I used Cinnamon as a daily driver for ten years, I’ve still got Mint Cinnamon on my laptop, and Fedora KDE on my desktop.

KDE offers Wayland with all its bells and whistles ready to go, but Fedora is the second worst operating system I’ve ever operated. There’s a lot of shit that doesn’t run on it. .rpm is a complete joke compared to .apt, it’s just a shame that Ubuntu is such a joke compared to Fedora. Frankly this might be the perfect time in history to take a fire axe to everything more technologically advanced you own than a wall and go roll around in the mud.

You remember a few years ago when some random town in North Carolina made the national news because some Proud Boys shot out the substation because there was a drag show at a local downtown theater?

I’m from there.

What I learned in those four days without refrigeration or air conditioning is that substations aren’t bulletproof.

Whose this “you” you refer to? XD

What is real? How do you define real?

I mean, I haven’t had the torque wrench calibrated a split second before the wrench was applied to the faucet handle by state and federal members of the Department of Weights And Measures, but the print bed is hot to the touch when it’s finished printing, yet it doesn’t burn my skin like the one time in A&P school when I set my welding filler rod down over my pliers, then reached to pick up my pliers, burned my thumb on the welding rod and smelled it before feeling it because at the temperature steel melts your nerves die faster than they transmit pain signals…I strongly hypothesize my bed heater is functioning correctly and accurately.

Don’t go to airplane mechanic school, kids. That’s a career for old and mentally ill people. Become an influencer, sell NFTs, become a prostitute, do something healthy, honorable and productive with your life. Let aviation be that thing two idiots from Ohio did in North Carolina that one time and dismiss it as a fantasy for degenerates.

Witness if you will, the only two sheets of glass I’ve used since 2016:

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