Unsurprising.

“We are in an overspeed condition descending 20,000 feet per minute,” the pilot radioed.

When an aircraft is overspeed, it’s going faster than designed and that exerts extra force on the parts that stick out (like wings and control surfaces). Too much overspeed and of course parts start to break off. That doesn’t mean those parts had anything to do with the original cause of the descent (which seems like ice and weather).

There’s nothing new to report until the passenger list is disclosed or the crash investigation is concluded, this is just a nothing headline looking for eyeballs.

Edit: Here’s the single frame before impact from the dashcam video that captured the crash. Looks like no wings by that point. Ok sorry wings are just disguised.

Since Signal Login is brand new and developing Signal Desktop as a standalone app requires a huge amount of work, it’s possible that the initial release will still require a phone number. However, this doesn’t have to be a number associated with a smartphone. Any phone number that can receive an SMS or a phone call should work, including landline numbers and numbers used with basic phones or dumb phones. This will make Signal accessible to users without a smartphone.

Missing the point pretty hard, eh? People who want this feature are hoping to add anonymity to the privacy that Signal’s encryption provides.

Scammers also want anonymity, which feels like why Signal has been so reluctant to provide it.

I’m not sure exactly what you’re saying but you certainly don’t need to drill out rivets to get to it.

I assume you’re talking about the sensor at the start of the tube. Assembly of that one is step 7.19 through 7.21, and attaching the body panel on that side is step 7.40 (maybe look back as early as 7.35 for the prep work).

You might also try talking to Prusa support.

This is a very good point that I neglected. The tube can be pushed in to connect, but must be carefully released from the fitting.

You can look through the assembly manual for the kit version, and find that the black 3d printed elbow that attaches the Bowden tube to the top of the hot end just slides right on. So you might need to undo a tie or two but it should be easy to pop that off and get the filament out.

You didn’t read OP’s link, huh?

The content provider announced last week that it was planning to file in Delaware bankruptcy court after its near $4 billion merger with rival Shutterstock collapsed due to British antitrust challenges.

I think you’ll like this https://youtu.be/uT3SBzmDxGk

It sounds like you’re new to consumer products. I have issues with my clothes washer, my dishwasher, my car, and many more expensive and supposedly durable goods that are supposed to Just Work but don’t. And the manufacturer never comes back with an upgrade kit.

Ubiquiti is a great example of a company that sells supposedly prosumer gear with the possibility of firmware updates but actually delivers half-baked garbage and leaves people in the lurch, ignoring longstanding bugs and missing features for years. But their fanboys abound and they continue to sell lots of equipment. It boggles the mind.

I remain thrilled that Prusa is committed to continuous improvement.

Sounds like your advice to OP should be to avoid the bleeding edge Prusa stuff (like INDX), but that it’s reasonable to expect to be pleased with well-baked revisions. Another way to look at that is that they’re more than happy to support hardware for a while after release, with additional improvements. My take is that’s extremely positive, but you’re entitled to your opinion.

I haven’t gotten the Gen 2 upgrade kit yet for my Core One+ but I’m excited about the idea that they’ve reduced bed warping and therefore eliminated the vast majority of the Absorbing Heat step before the flatness check at the start of prints. A gen 2 out of the box sounds delightful.

OP:

My sister wants to get into 3D printing.

Your suggestion: Tell her to order prints from a print farm vendor or makerspace and buy her a nice purse instead.

What?

I’ve been incredibly impressed and pleased with my Prusa Core One+, as a beginner, over the past several months. Assembled myself (I’m a beginner to 3d printing and modeling but not to technical topics) both for cost savings and to have a deeper understanding of how to take it apart if something goes wrong, but it’s been rock solid so far. I was happy to pay the cost premium over Bambu to be on the moral high ground with ethical corporate behavior and production.

YMMV, but I was blown away by how good it was out of the box. I pressed play and it just worked, even with what I thought were ridiculous overhang angles without supports.

Kind of amazing it got published in the first place. 6 hours is pretty fast. The removal speaks more about blatant corruption than all of the investments and contracts detailed in the article.