The Bobiverse series eventually features some aliens. I don’t think that’s a spoiler at all… But they aren’t space-faring, so I dunno if that counts for what you’re looking for.

As a developer, the experience is so much better on Android for me. And I oppose the walled garden on a ideological level.

But I have to admit some of the features are compelling. Some of them aren’t even really Apple’s doing, such as Genshin Impact supporting wireless controllers on IOS14+, but not Android at all. Others are built in, such as the lidar scanning.

They haven’t yet tempted me over, though, because phones are incredibly expensive and even if I weren’t opposed to the walled garden, I’m pretty invested in the Android ecosystem now.

At some point I plan to borrow someone’s iPhone and try Genshin on it, and if that works well… Well, I might just switch anyhow. Or maybe I get sick of that game before that. ;)

That article was posted in Sep 2021 and doesn’t seem to have been updated.

It was really unfortunate that they included that. I continued to the end, but those were definitely the worst parts.

I don’t use a respirator at all, but I also don’t hang out in that room while it’s printing, and I have a small air purifier that runs in there full time.

Ah, I didn’t realize the black sensor could do that.

Have you tried calibrating it with something covering the plate? Maybe painter’s tape? Can the plate spin 180 and calibrate there, to make sure it’s not different somehow on the right and left?

So you’ve used one of those mechanic leveling tools to manually set the screws so that the bed is the same distance from the nozzle in all 4 corners, and the automated probe is telling you that it’s 1.5mm off from left to right? That’s pretty weird.

Someone else mentioned there being flex/deflection in things, and I think that’s something I’d look at first. But I’d also look at the sensor and see if there’s a reason it would do that. Is it still the stock black or blue sensor? I never had problems with mine, but I’ve heard a lot of complaints about them, mostly that they’re not accurate, especially on certain surfaces. Since they sense metal, maybe your bed has extra metal on one side vs the other?

I’m just spitballing here because it’s weird enough that I can’t really imagine what’s going on.

I tried watching the TV series and couldn’t get into it. I finally tried the first book and it is so much better.

I feel like I have read quite a few books that I felt that way about, but it’s always hard to bring them to mind when someone asks. That said, the first few that popped into my head:

• Cradle (series)
• Wool (series)
• The Martian (Audio book is especially well narrated!)
• Murderbot Diaries (series)
• The Bobiverse (series)

This is the first I’ve heard of it. I didn’t know Razr made a folding screen phone. I think I’d heard rumors they were making a “flip phone”, but didn’t imagine it’d be this.

I’m not interested in such fragile displays, or in tiny square displays, so I think this is probably not the phone for me, even if it was in my price range.

I wouldn’t say I’m a fan of them, but I don’t mind them. If there’s a game from that list that I really, really want to keep playing, I can just buy that game. In the mean time, I got to enjoy all the other games that were fun for just a short time.

I definitely prefer XB Game Pass instead, though, where the whole catalog is available no matter when you started and whether or not you clicked a button in time.