If you want to use gimp as an ALTERNATIVE and go in without the bias, you’ll likely learn your way around a LOT faster.
I think this is the key phrase -- do you want an alternative (where you might have to learn new ways of doing things), or do you want a clone? GIMP is not a clone, but an alternative.
I also think this gets to something I was told loooooooooong ago, when I was a young lad asking what was the best computer to buy. Someone told me, "Find all the software you want/need to run, and get the computer that will run it all."
In other words, if you need to use Photoshop, then maybe you don't use Linux -- maybe stick with Mac or (shudder) Windows.
OK, so no to pulling it all off.
I'll give this a try, but let's say I put the filament in the printer cleanly -- the filament won't be tight for long as it gets pulled into the printer, so what's to keep it from jamming itself up again?
UPDATE: I really need to learn to try things before I start complaining they won't work.
I followed your advice -- as I was tightening up the windings, it became clear that the lead winding was under the next one. I know I wasn't the most careful when I initially loaded it, so you're diagnosis was probably correct.
So I pulled the tangle out, cut off the damaged section of PLA, and more carefully reloaded the filament this time. It seems better now -- the filament is feeding better now. Time will tell -- I'll post an update when this print either completes or fails.
If you're amenable to using other methods, Sevin dust will kill them as well. If you want to go organic, try BT or neem oil -- FWIW, neem oil is also useful against other things, like fungal infections.
I'm in rural southern Illinois, and while we have both types of bugs around here, the squash and shield bugs have done more to stop me being a squash grower than anything. There are so many shield-type bugs around here -- my kale and Brussels sprouts were damaged by harlequin bugs, and I've seen green shield bugs on my tomatoes today. At least I have ways to control the Japanese beetles and grasshoppers -- nothing seems to stop shield/squash bugs short of squishing them.
Unless I'm missing something, it's the teeny tiny brown dot above the bottom zip tie.
To be honest, vine borers were less of a problem than the GD squash bugs. I swear, last year's crop was all squash bugs, very little actual squash. I decided not to even try squash this year - the only thing they didn't eat were the birdhouse gourds, and I've still got plenty of those.
I have the predecessor to that, the Photon Ultra. I'd be very interested in seeing how the anti-aliasing performs on the D2 - I've been fighting voxels on the Ultra since Day One, and haven't been happy with the results.
Check out Archon at http://www.archonstl.org/ - it should be about a day drive for you from Nebraska, IIRC from previous trips. Even though it says it's in St. Louis, it's physically occurring in Illinois just over the Mississippi River.
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