Hell, even the Snapmaker U1 uses a prime tower,

I have a U1 which is what prompted this post. But Snapmaker doesn’t “use” a Prime tower. They took Orca and kept all the defaults. I was thinking that they might have intentionally kept the prime tower default because they don’t have a real poop chute but only a poop bin which would quickly overflow if they primed into it.

From your own quote,

“that her staff may have known about the hookups, but that she had not been able to locate the inspection report.”

Again, there were 2 questionable hookups. Not one. Two. The first was known and not billed.

The second, by all current evidence, was not known about. “May have known.” “Can’t locate the inspection report.”

Third, they went over their agreed amount of water usage.

You keep discussing the first hookup, which wasn’t illegal and ignoring the second hookup which as of now, was illegal AND they illegally went over their water usage.

Test it on an object with many color changes

Without knowing why, I would be wasting time. I could be changing colors when the problem is an acceleration condition created by a part shape causing underextrusion.

the only way to find the right answer for you is to test things and figure it out yourself.

The entire point of this forum is to gain knowledge that you don’t already. Instead of answering any questions, you could just respond “Test it yourself.”

Which is why I find it odd that you seem to be looking for an answer that works for one person

I’m not asking what works but WHY a feature exists. Understanding why allows you to design parts correctly from the start instead of screwing around and then randomly getting a good result that you don’t understand and therefore can’t replicate under all conditions.

The prime tower has nothing to do with “looking right”. It builds as the print goes and often looks bad while the print is fine because that is it’s purpose: to build pressure getting the filament moving in the nozzle before the head moves into place.

In the case of mixing filaments like PETG and PLA for support it looks really horrible because it’s laying down lines of plastic that dont stick to each other. But the part looks fantastic because the slicer creates actual support interface layers for supports.

Poop where?

That’s why I’m thinking it’s a legacy setting in slicers. All printers made in the past 5 years have a purge chute and wiper. So purge goes out the back and the nozzle is wiped before it starts.

Well except the new FlashForge multi head printer that purges off the edge of the build plate.

Testing on a print means nothing. Just because one print works doesn’t mean it will work on every print. If I understood exactly why there is a prime tower instead of purging for prime I’d know under what conditions it could be disabled.

Maybe it’s a historical artifact from printers from 10 years ago. Maybe “build nozzle pressure” doesn’t work as well if you aren’t priming onto a surface that would create back pressure.

I’d rather understand why than have a print randomly fail in the future. That is just because one model can print without a prime tower doesn’t mean all will work under all conditions.

I’d love to get a real answer.

It’s not like the slicer adjusts the prime tower to be close to the objects. In fact it does the opposite: It places the prime tower in the far corner.

From googling it seems like if you turn off the prime tower, it primes into the purge area. This means there’s no point to the prime tower except for printers that can’t purge.

The purge area always has a wiper. I don’t see why you can’t prime into the purge chute - wipe, then move to plate.

The bribes are from China. It’s not getting reversed.

No, because the media is controlled by Republicans.

OpenAI and others have had data centers training models for 10 years. Chatgpt was released in 2022. A data center was churning for years before release to create that model.

Yes LLM’s can beat humans in many tasks. But the jump from super spell checker to real AI is still huge.

It’s like the 1960’s where computers were beating chess players. (Not grand masters but they could beat regular people.) Because a computer could out think a regular human, people assumed that with more resources, we would have real AI in 25 year. That was Hal from 2001 Space Odyssey. It seemed very reasonable in 1968.

No but if you don’t try, you won’t find where the Goblins are hiding.

Real inclusiveness would be for Ken Jeong to play Samuel Jackson in his biography.

competitor manufacturer

There’s Chinese ram that’s becoming good. But that doesn’t mean Americans will be allowed to buy it.

But really gamers are the worst about consumerism. Nvidia is the worst and gamers keep going back. Steve from Gamer’s Nexus had a funny chart in one of his videos a year or so ago. It was a flow chart about gamer spending on hardware showing all the advantages of AMD and Intel in gaming with a big arrow at the bottom that was labeled something like “And then you ignore everything and give all your money to Nvidia.”

The Chromebooks didn’t magically appear. It was a social decision to use them.

Guns are perfectly safe too. They cannot do anything on their own. Yet a society that allows unrestricted gun ownership without regulations or training will have problems.

So yeah, it’s not the technology.

You didn’t answer the question.

I think Chromebooks as a supplement to books are fantastic. But instead they have completely replaced all books. This means lessons are broken up into small chunks of information which reinforces the limited attention span problems that already exist.

I blame Chromebooks.