I’ve got this on a sticker on my laptop so you definately can get it from red bubble

They’re still making videos on YouTube at least once a year too! One of the two brother chaps who created it went on to work on the animated show Gravity Falls too.

I swear, my descendants shalll never forget this mild slight.

Listen here you bastard, it’s three tops

Yep, you’ll never get it perfect, but a smaller layer height will make the steps less noticeable. Adaptive layer height in cura if you use that can help, but adds a mortal age to the length of the print.

Only so far, there’s still time.

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It’s probably under exposed then. Something like this and this will help you tune your slicer settings. You might need to play with other settings if you have other issues, but most of the time the exposure settings will be the problem with new resins.

Is this the first print you’ve done with it? Have you done any exposure calibration with this resin?

Ethanol should be fine to use as far as I know. Do the holes go all the way through? If so your screen might have dead spots. You can visually inspect the screen by setting it to do a test exposure without the resin tank on it to check. Also obviously check that your tank doesn’t have any failed print bits stick to the sheet.

The industry is experiencing historic shrinkage post COVID due to unsustainable growth during COVID.

Quit my admin job in November of 2022 to go back and refresh my software Dev knowledge at a bootcamp. It was great, loved every minute of it but I’ve been struggling to get a job since due to the historically bad year for layoffs in tech. I’m incredibly lucky to be in the position where my partners job can support us whilst I’m looking though so I can take my time and wait for the right role to come around which takes a lot of the stress of being unemployed off.

I’ve also just been diagnosed with ADHD as a 31 year old, partly because of talking to my therapist and it giving me the confidence to follow through on forcing a diagnosis. I’ve just finished my tritration for Concerts XL and it’s helping a lot, but now I need to unlearn a lifetime of bad habits that I used to manage it.

We’re both 31 and have been together for 15 going 16 years. We’d like to get married this year for inheritance reasons but we’ve been saying that for a 5ish years now. I think we’ll just end up doing something small or doing it and celebrating later.

No problem, I’m always happy to share my own journey - I’m not perfect by any means but I am getting happier year on year and normalizing talking about these things has played an important role in that. You should never feel guilty for feeling and sharing how you feel.

Yeah it has, I just ended my therapy after about 2 years of in person weekly sessions. Combined with antidepressants at my lowest it formed an important part of me overcoming my depression. I had a lot of guilt about inflicting my depression on those around me so having an outlet for my thoughts and feelings that wasn’t connected to the rest of my life was very valuable.

Its made me more resilient in terms of handling my anxieties - I can now deal with thoughts and situations that would have spiralled me into a deep depression before and can recognise and derail oncoming panic attacks before they happen.

It also made me realise how I was feeling guilty when perceived people close to me to be suffering emotionally (both real but often imagined) out of a desire to fix everything, even when they didn’t ask or need me too, which was very unhealthy for me. Learning to stop that has decreased my stress significantly.

I recognise that some people really don’t find therapy helpful, but I’d definitely recommend trying it with a few different therapists first before giving up. So much of it is down to your individual rapport with your therapist. There’s also other options like group therapy, which I’ve also found helpful for coming to realizations about myself but less good for working through my issues.

It’s not an easy transition. My partner works for DDG and I still don’t use it all the time. To their credit they are working to improve things but it’s a small team (comparatively). Their browser has some good features like app tracking protection just from having it installed and quick throwaway email support but isn’t quite up to Firefox’s standard (yet).