If someone starts the story by saying “I had a dream last night”, I know it’s going to be a long account of something totally nonsensical that I will be utterly uninterested in, that will not teach me anything of value, amaze me or amuse be in any way.

Depending on how much I care about not antagonizing that person, I might walk away without saying a word, lash out at them to shut them the hell up immediately, or politely listen while quietly escaping to my happy place in my mind while the torture lasts.

There are few things I hate more than people wasting my time telling me their dreams.

About that murder…

I never wish any man’s death, but I can’t say I cry at every grave either.

Saying Mangione is a hero implies you’re convinced he’s the killer. Not great…

Ah shaddap you face.

he hates health insurance parasites so does 99% of US.

That’s a very conservative estimate.

The murderer was sloppy though. The best way to murder someone and get away with it is to get elected POTUS. or be the son of a POTUS. Don’t go around committing crimes if you’re a normal citizen, silly.

Seems pretty circumstantial to me so far.

What a fun family…

Is this in relation to the monetary value of cryptocurrency or the anonymity of cryptocurrency?

Cryptocurrencies are just fiat currencies, like the dollar. They’re worth what people think they’re worth.

My beef with them is that they’re either pushed by scammer to empty honest but gullible people’s bank accounts, or they’re used to pay for illegal activities because they’re totally opaque and unregulated. My other beef is that they’re really securities and they’re not subject to the rules on securities for a reason that totally escapes me.

I don’t do cryptocurrencies both out of financial self-preservation, and also because I refuse to participate - and thus promote - stuff that’s generally bad for society as a whole.

And if you’re not convinced cryptocurrencies in all their forms are rotten to the core, consider this: Trump loves em. That alone is a red flag big enough to hang on a pole in North Korea.

MySudo is a proprietary aliasing software

Hard no.

Privacy.com is a proprietary financial transaction masking and aliasing tool.

Hard no.

Google Pixel phones

Hard no.

Yes, I know Pixel phones are the best option to run the best deGoogled OS out there (Graphene) but paying Google to escape the Google surveillance is just too rich for me. I’ll never get over that one. Fuck Google, even if it means running a slightly less secure OS (CalyxOS from the fine Calyx Institute, which you rightfully list).

Cryptocurrency

Hard no. I don’t partake in scams, even for the sake of privacy.

Other than that, great list. Thanks!

Tell me about it… I have all the seasons on DVD, and all Brittas Empire seasons too. They just don’t make good comedy like that no more.

Hehe yes, they do look a bit like that.

Now you make me want to watch a few episodes tonight… 😃

Rather than print it flat, is there an angle you could print it at that would allow for eliminating most/all of the interior supports? E.g. toe angled down, heel angled up.

Ooh that’s a GREAT idea! I plain didn’t think about that but it totally makes sense. Thanks! I’ll goof around with that tonight in the slicer to see what’s the minimal resource utilization I can achieve. Hell, I might even be able to squeeze both shoes in there.

I’ve never printed TPU for such a long duration. Do you have it printing directly from the filament dryer?

Yes. My plan is to load the brand-new roll in the dryer on Thursday and set it to dry at 70C overnight, print a bunch of test parts on Friday, then if they pass muster, start the big print on Saturday morning.

That’s the plan: get used to the material before wasting 80 yards of the stuff on a print.

All valid concerns, thank you for raising them: this hadn’t crossed my mind.

But I’m not too concerned for the following reasons:

• My current pair of pool shoes are commercial models I thermo-reformed with hot air (if you’re interested in that process, I can post a video if you’d like). Pool shoes are made of vinyl: let me tell you, reforming vinyl at close to decomposing temperature is a nasty toxic fumes affair. Whatever drawbacks TPU may have can’t be any worse for my health.

• They’ll be used mostly underwater in chlorinated water for a couple of hours per week tops.

• My feet don’t sweat much anymore.

First order of business is making sure it fits, before I spend 2 hours punching holes in the model 🙂 There’s another thing I need to add: sole patterns, to prevent slippage. Right now the soles are totally bald, which isn’t ideal. But this is just a test print.

Yeah but… I didn’t define the M600 sequence. It’s whatever came in the stock firmware. Also, I assumed that was the same sequence the printer executes when changing the filament through the menu.

If it’s possible to redefine the M600 sequence, I didn’t see where. Also, I don’t want to do that. So I think it’s time to open an issue in the Prusa firmware github.

did you also check “Single Extruder Multi Material?”

Yes it’s checked.

I’m starting to wonder if I might be better off printing a mold out of PLA and pouring liquid rubber into it 🙂 I mean technically, the shoes would be 3D printed and it would probably create fewer headaches, because liquid rubber is what I use now with regular molds to create my shoes, and it works perfectly fine.

I’m a bit concerned that this whole endeavor will results in quite stringent requirements in terms of hardware, and difficulty in manufacturing, because ideally I would like my design to be reusable in developing countries for others who have a need for custom footwear like I do but don’t have the money. My plan is to turn my FreeCAD design into a configurable OpenSCAD file eventually, that anyone with an el-cheapo printer and some time can use to make cheap bespoke shoes.

So maybe for cheap easy shoes to happen anywhere in the world, maybe a PLA negative and liquid rubber is in fact a better route.

But for now I’ll go with the TPU: I have it so I might as well, and I’ll learn something.

for every 5c below the perfect temp for your material, the time doubles

Great info, that!

We always keep the dryer at 45C (not sure why, we just do…) I just looked it up and it looks like 65C for 8 hours is a minimum for TPU. So unless my colleague left the spool of TPU in it over the weekend - which I doubt - it would not have been enough. Unless he took the spool right out of the vacuum-sealed bag with the silicagel packet in it. I don’t know. I’ll ask him.