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  • It was active for about 3 months, until she broke the screen. I replaced her device and put the phone on the shelf. I replaced the screen and digitizer a year later when I needed a spare handset and they told me “it had never been on network” and was ineligible for being unlocked. Which is bullshit because the phone was bought and paid for at the time I purchased it in a box at the store with a prepaid card. As far as I’m concerned, straight talk still owes me 200$. Even if the phone was NEVER activated, I still own it outright, making it mine to do with what I please.







  • The day HP locked all firmware and driver downloads behind active contracts was the day I stopped buying it.

    I can go on Dell’s website and download drivers for a server I bought in 2004. For free. By just putting the service tag in.

    Don’t even get me started on HP’s partsurfer or warranty websites. It’s a mire of hundreds of subdomains, none of which are actually managed properly.

    It’s no wonder they’re swirling the drain. They are blatantly anti-consumer and anti-corporation.













  • Interesting technique. For this type of accent work I usually extrude the text into the surface 1-2 layers deep. At that layer I’ll swap filaments, print 2 more, than swap back to my original color. This achieves the same effect in a slightly different way.

    I have some Octoprint Pause scripting that will auto park the print head and lock all motors. It will hold the job while you swap filaments. Upon restart it will do a purge in place, rehome XY, then continue its job from its pause coords.