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* '''2022-07-07:''' video cards arrive. i check the Copper Hydro 2080ti in my machine against my existing Aorus Master, and realize using it in the top slot will invalidate the shroud i'd laboriously designed+printed a few days earlier for my mobo-side drive bays. the world is cruel. i can't place it in a lower slot, as my Dual XTOP pump would be displaced. i ponder permutations that move the Dual XTOP, despite it looking kinda badass where it is, and conclude that the best thing to do is change up my shroud. said shroud was printed with carbon fiber-infused PETG, requiring a high-temperature extruder. my high-temperature extruder is fucked. i resolve to unfuck it. my 2070 Super turns out to be...the air-cooling components of a 2080ti, completely useless to me. i ask the ebay seller what the fuck; he replies what the fuck yourself; this has escalated to a chargeback following failed ebay dispute resolution. so that's no longer in play. 2080ti or go home.

* '''2022-07-08:''' mobo arrives. i have lots of other shit to do, and am unhappy, so i'm fine with waiting for the new monoblock to be delivered. i'm also not looking forward to moving my $2000 CPU (now $3500, ugh, since when do chip prices go <i>up?</i>), nor installing the monoblock, nor inevitably feeling like an unscientific fool applying new thermal paste.

* weekend of 2022-07-09: i grimly set to unfucking my [[Qidi|Qidi X-Plus]], which is broken in just about every way a 3d printer can break. i install a new stainless steel nozzle into my high-temp extruder, and extract the CF-PETG which had befouled it. i install a new brass nozzle into my other extruder, scraping out PLA which had filled the thing in horrible splotches like shit sprayed onto the walls of a public restroom. i tighten up applicable belts, open it up and extract bolts which had fallen into the bottom, and replace the factory fan with a spare [[Noctua]]. now we're cooking with thermonuclear fire, i think. i reassemble the fucker and go to calibrate it. the bed only rises to half of the intended height. i stare at it, reboot it a few times, curse loudly, watch the videos on the Qidi site since apparently all manuals and customer service are now youtube videos, and still it rises only halfway. i mail Qidi support, who ask for a video. i'm like "look i could just draw you a box with a plate halfway up the inside" but no, they want an Android video mailed back to them. it's a day that ends with Y, so the video is too large for their mailboxes, and i am given a Google Drive account to upload into. the Drive account is full of hundreds of other people's videos, to which i have full read and write access. fucking china. Qidi has no idea what's wrong; they offer me a conciliatory free stainless steel nozzle. the nozzle will cost $39.95 to ship from china, and will not fix my problem. i decline. Communist hooligans!

* '''weekend of 2022-07-09:''' i grimly set to unfucking my [[Qidi|Qidi X-Plus]], which is broken in just about every way a 3d printer can break. i install a new stainless steel nozzle into my high-temp extruder, and extract the CF-PETG which had befouled it. i install a new brass nozzle into my other extruder, scraping out PLA which had filled the thing in horrible splotches like shit sprayed onto the walls of a public restroom. i tighten up applicable belts, open it up and extract bolts which had fallen into the bottom, and replace the factory fan with a spare [[Noctua]]. now we're cooking with thermonuclear fire, i think. i reassemble the fucker and go to calibrate it. the bed only rises to half of the intended height. i stare at it, reboot it a few times, curse loudly, watch the videos on the Qidi site since apparently all manuals and customer service are now youtube videos, and still it rises only halfway. i mail Qidi support, who ask for a video. i'm like "look i could just draw you a box with a plate halfway up the inside" but no, they want an Android video mailed back to them. it's a day that ends with Y, so the video is too large for their mailboxes, and i am given a Google Drive account to upload into. the Drive account is full of hundreds of other people's videos, to which i have full read and write access. fucking china. Qidi has no idea what's wrong; they offer me a conciliatory free stainless steel nozzle. the nozzle will cost $39.95 to ship from china, and will not fix my problem. i decline. Communist hooligans!

* '''2022-07-11, 1000:''' i post my Qidi for sale on our building's internal mailing list.

* '''2022-07-11, 1030:''' my message is rejected due to "too much swearing Nick!"

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 * '''2022-07-07:''' video cards arrive. i check the Copper Hydro 2080ti in my machine against my existing Aorus Master, and realize using it in the top slot will invalidate the shroud i'd laboriously designed+printed a few days earlier for my mobo-side drive bays. the world is cruel. i can't place it in a lower slot, as my Dual XTOP pump would be displaced. i ponder permutations that move the Dual XTOP, despite it looking kinda badass where it is, and conclude that the best thing to do is change up my shroud. said shroud was printed with carbon fiber-infused PETG, requiring a high-temperature extruder. my high-temperature extruder is fucked. i resolve to unfuck it. my 2070 Super turns out to be...the air-cooling components of a 2080ti, completely useless to me. i ask the ebay seller what the fuck; he replies what the fuck yourself; this has escalated to a chargeback following failed ebay dispute resolution. so that's no longer in play. 2080ti or go home.
 * '''2022-07-08:''' mobo arrives. i have lots of other shit to do, and am unhappy, so i'm fine with waiting for the new monoblock to be delivered. i'm also not looking forward to moving my $2000 CPU (now $3500, ugh, since when do chip prices go <i>up?</i>), nor installing the monoblock, nor inevitably feeling like an unscientific fool applying new thermal paste.
-* weekend of 2022-07-09: i grimly set to unfucking my [[Qidi|Qidi X-Plus]], which is broken in just about every way a 3d printer can break. i install a new stainless steel nozzle into my high-temp extruder, and extract the CF-PETG which had befouled it. i install a new brass nozzle into my other extruder, scraping out PLA which had filled the thing in horrible splotches like shit sprayed onto the walls of a public restroom. i tighten up applicable belts, open it up and extract bolts which had fallen into the bottom, and replace the factory fan with a spare [[Noctua]]. now we're cooking with thermonuclear fire, i think. i reassemble the fucker and go to calibrate it. the bed only rises to half of the intended height. i stare at it, reboot it a few times, curse loudly, watch the videos on the Qidi site since apparently all manuals and customer service are now youtube videos, and still it rises only halfway. i mail Qidi support, who ask for a video. i'm like "look i could just draw you a box with a plate halfway up the inside" but no, they want an Android video mailed back to them. it's a day that ends with Y, so the video is too large for their mailboxes, and i am given a Google Drive account to upload into. the Drive account is full of hundreds of other people's videos, to which i have full read and write access. fucking china. Qidi has no idea what's wrong; they offer me a conciliatory free stainless steel nozzle. the nozzle will cost $39.95 to ship from china, and will not fix my problem. i decline. Communist hooligans!
+* '''weekend of 2022-07-09:''' i grimly set to unfucking my [[Qidi|Qidi X-Plus]], which is broken in just about every way a 3d printer can break. i install a new stainless steel nozzle into my high-temp extruder, and extract the CF-PETG which had befouled it. i install a new brass nozzle into my other extruder, scraping out PLA which had filled the thing in horrible splotches like shit sprayed onto the walls of a public restroom. i tighten up applicable belts, open it up and extract bolts which had fallen into the bottom, and replace the factory fan with a spare [[Noctua]]. now we're cooking with thermonuclear fire, i think. i reassemble the fucker and go to calibrate it. the bed only rises to half of the intended height. i stare at it, reboot it a few times, curse loudly, watch the videos on the Qidi site since apparently all manuals and customer service are now youtube videos, and still it rises only halfway. i mail Qidi support, who ask for a video. i'm like "look i could just draw you a box with a plate halfway up the inside" but no, they want an Android video mailed back to them. it's a day that ends with Y, so the video is too large for their mailboxes, and i am given a Google Drive account to upload into. the Drive account is full of hundreds of other people's videos, to which i have full read and write access. fucking china. Qidi has no idea what's wrong; they offer me a conciliatory free stainless steel nozzle. the nozzle will cost $39.95 to ship from china, and will not fix my problem. i decline. Communist hooligans!
 * '''2022-07-11, 1000:''' i post my Qidi for sale on our building's internal mailing list.
 * '''2022-07-11, 1030:''' my message is rejected due to "too much swearing Nick!"