Depending on what happened they might not make one for you. I drove my car to work, parked in a parking lot, and came back out at the end of the day to a heavily dented fender with blue paint scrapes on my red paint. It was obvious someone hit me. I called the police station, told them what happened, and asked for a police report. They declined and said it might have been a deer. It’s a busy/high traffic area and there wasn’t any green space for atleast a half mile.

I spend all day work on software. I am now a PM after spending 15 years writing code, but totally agree with wanting to not have to worry about hardware/software once I’m done working.

My personal phone is a Pixel 3a. I would classify it as not amazing/not horrible/decent camera and just works. I personally like some of the UX patterns in Android more than iOS, but these days the two are more or less in parity. Unless you get an OE ROM. Those can be a wreck.

Which bit? Refurb used hardware to sell? Purchase used hardware for business use? Genuinely curious.

For joining parts, you could also consider friction welding. I’m not sure how easy it would be to fill a cavity, but bond strength would be great since you would also be the heating the original part.

That’s sad to hear. As I said in another comment here, I migrated when Google Podcasts was killed by Google. I never experienced any playback issues with it. What podcasts apps have you tried? I wonder if they all use a common library.

I migrated to antennapod after Google killed their podcast app.

Antenna pod has a few persistent and annoying bug/quirks.

• If you’re streaming it will often skip forward/backward in time by anywhere from 0.5 to 30-45 seconds when it downloads the next segment. I’ve seen this across a bunch of different podcasts. Conan needs a friend, stuff you should know, this American life, etc. There’s been quite a bit of activity on their forums about this, along with a few attempted fixes, but the problem persists for me
• I somehow wound up with 1+ GB of podcasts despite Auto delete turned on. This is potentially due to the prior bullet. I’ve had podcasts end early (on time) and also run 5 minutes past their end-timd
• The Android Auto interface is not great. The home screen pop-in, or whatever it’s called, will randomly show you 3 podcasts from something you’re subscribed to

I also find the interface somewhat odd.

You have an inbox, which is basically a running feed of new episodes from your subscriptions. You can play those directly, remove them from your feed, or add them to a queue. You can then do the exact same thing from the queue. I would either make the inbox dumber and keep the queue or flatten the queue and inbox.

The app is also massively customizable, which is cool, but some of the customizations interact with other things. Downloading from your inbox can add a podcast to your queue. Deleting from downloads, which is a fourth area of the app, can remove them from your queue.

I do generally like the app, and also like the idea of FOSS, but I suspect there are better commercial options out there.

Esteps and extrusion multiplier are related, but different, solutions to a similar problem. Changing one value by say 10% should be the same as changing the other by 10%.

Esteps is “how far does the extruder motor have to turn to extrude some length of filament”. This lets your slicer know how much plastic volume should be extruded per step of your extruder motor

Flow rate is “crap, different filaments expand/contract at different rates and have different physical characteristics like viscosity”.

This is why the extrusion multiplier setting is associated to your filament profile in PrusaSlicer and all its derivatives. I use a much lower value for ASA (around 0.88 if going slower and cooler) than PETG (0.95 ish) than PLA (1.0) than TPU (1.15 if memory serves).

I’ll also tweak my extrusion multiplier depending on how I’m printing. For example, right now I have an ASA print going. The printer is laying down filament at 30 mm^3/s. To do this I’m printing a bit hotter than I normally would with this filament (245 vs 230). I’m also at 0.92 EM vs my usual 0.88.

Sounds like your infill is curling up? Solid or sparse infill? If solid, it’s likely over extrusion as you said. If sparse, my suspicion is temperature and/or cooling related.

Dimensional accuracy doesn’t necessarily mean detail. What are your expectations? You should be able to get fairly crisp and dimensionally accurate prints, but there’s a ceiling. With FDM you’re ultimately running what could be considered a CNC hot glue gun so absolute accuracy won’t ever be as good as a resin or SLS printer.

Do your parts look good, but their dimensions are off? If yes, you probably need to scale your parts to accomodate for shrinkage. That’s what the Voron team did and their parts fit together really nicely with non-printed parts when printed on a decently tuned printer. Their threaded test prints are a pretty good indication of how well dialed in your printer is.

Some of this also comes down to temp and material, so if you had the perfect interface and changed material you might need to iterate a few times. There are also the design quirks that you learn as you go, especially for things like small holes in parts often being smaller printed than designed. Print a hole gauge set, with a series of holes ranging in size, and use the one whose printed - not designed - dimensions are the one you want.

Why are you looking to upgrade? Are you chasing detail, speed, or something else?

Can you tune it out by bumping your extrusion multiplier? I’ve run 3 kg spools more or less exclusively for like 5 years now. They ride on ball bearings though. I do print the occasional 1 kg spool and don’t have issues swapping back and forth.