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Episode 86 – Techie Troubles and Documentaries
Overview
Stephen’s tech troubles with his 3d printer leads to a conversation on how fixing tech problems has changed. Home networks are also big, and Stephen has been having trouble with that also. Time for a new router.
Meatloaf passed away this past week and we reminisce about the great music. And there is going to be a biopic of Weird Al with Daniel Radcliffe as Al!
https://variety.com/2022/film/news/daniel-radcliffe-weird-al-yankovic-movie-1235156084/?scrollnorefresh=1
Alan has watched several documentaries lately – like ZZ Top and David Foster.
Recommendations
David Foster Documentary – https://www.netflix.com/title/81214083
YouTube
Transcript
[00:00:41] Alan: let’s try this. Watch better
[00:00:45] Stephen: tech. I was telling my cousin I’ve had so many tech issues that I’m like ready to just give up and go and shovel horse stalls and call it a living. It’s been one of those. ’cause [00:01:00] so he got out of his 3d printer on Sunday. He got up in the morning. He said, I’m going to put the printer, get her, I’ll call you if I have problems.
So like 12, 12 30. He sends me pictures. Hey, look, it’s pretty four hours. And he hasn’t printing and it’s like halfway done. And I’m like, shut up. I’m not talking to you any longer
[00:01:18] Alan: days worth of. What’s funny. Why isn’t the temperature? Correct?
[00:01:24] Stephen: I tried, I said I can’t let my cousin beat me. So I sat down and I just started messing again.
The same issues though. I did change from the default, a bed to the glass bed, and I adjusted temperatures in various combinations that I hadn’t done before. And I put it back on the default, cleaned the bed real well, it printed fine. And I was like, are you kidding me? So I said, okay. So I hit it. I cleaned the bat again, hit it again.
It got halfway through it and then screwed all up. And I tried four more and [00:02:00]
[00:02:00] Alan: I mean, honestly, part of what makes me worry about that kind of thing, 3d printing or whatever is, I don’t think we’re early adopters it’s been around for a long time, but it sure seems to be that there’s, it’s like being an auto mechanic from before and, and now everything is solid state.
Everything is you can’t listen to it, feel it, and look at it, figure it out. You have no insight. You have no leverage points for, well, it probably is this what’s my first guest. And we’ve talked before about are our troubleshooting skills because after you’ve seen a lot, your instinct, your store knowledge leads you to what’s the first thing that I should try based on what I know so far, what’s the thing that I can try that will cut the solution set in half so that I can dismiss a whole bunch of possibilities by seeing whether this word.
And unfortunately you’re at the start of building that knowledge base. It screws up. It’s lying. It’s exactly the same.
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By Relentless GeekeryOverview
Stephen’s tech troubles with his 3d printer leads to a conversation on how fixing tech problems has changed. Home networks are also big, and Stephen has been having trouble with that also. Time for a new router.
Meatloaf passed away this past week and we reminisce about the great music. And there is going to be a biopic of Weird Al with Daniel Radcliffe as Al!
https://variety.com/2022/film/news/daniel-radcliffe-weird-al-yankovic-movie-1235156084/?scrollnorefresh=1
Alan has watched several documentaries lately – like ZZ Top and David Foster.
Recommendations
David Foster Documentary – https://www.netflix.com/title/81214083
YouTube
Transcript
[00:00:41] Alan: let’s try this. Watch better
[00:00:45] Stephen: tech. I was telling my cousin I’ve had so many tech issues that I’m like ready to just give up and go and shovel horse stalls and call it a living. It’s been one of those. ’cause [00:01:00] so he got out of his 3d printer on Sunday. He got up in the morning. He said, I’m going to put the printer, get her, I’ll call you if I have problems.
So like 12, 12 30. He sends me pictures. Hey, look, it’s pretty four hours. And he hasn’t printing and it’s like halfway done. And I’m like, shut up. I’m not talking to you any longer
[00:01:18] Alan: days worth of. What’s funny. Why isn’t the temperature? Correct?
[00:01:24] Stephen: I tried, I said I can’t let my cousin beat me. So I sat down and I just started messing again.
The same issues though. I did change from the default, a bed to the glass bed, and I adjusted temperatures in various combinations that I hadn’t done before. And I put it back on the default, cleaned the bed real well, it printed fine. And I was like, are you kidding me? So I said, okay. So I hit it. I cleaned the bat again, hit it again.
It got halfway through it and then screwed all up. And I tried four more and [00:02:00]
[00:02:00] Alan: I mean, honestly, part of what makes me worry about that kind of thing, 3d printing or whatever is, I don’t think we’re early adopters it’s been around for a long time, but it sure seems to be that there’s, it’s like being an auto mechanic from before and, and now everything is solid state.
Everything is you can’t listen to it, feel it, and look at it, figure it out. You have no insight. You have no leverage points for, well, it probably is this what’s my first guest. And we’ve talked before about are our troubleshooting skills because after you’ve seen a lot, your instinct, your store knowledge leads you to what’s the first thing that I should try based on what I know so far, what’s the thing that I can try that will cut the solution set in half so that I can dismiss a whole bunch of possibilities by seeing whether this word.
And unfortunately you’re at the start of building that knowledge base. It screws up. It’s lying. It’s exactly the same.