Came here to mention the business pickup option. That's a thing in the U.S., at least. No idea about Ireland, but I think when you order something, you can tell Amazon you want to pick it up at a CVS or a Staples or whatever. And then when it's ready, you just go there in person and pick it up.
Thank you for being the voice of reason. The whole "Grindr crashed because
<right-wing event>
took place" (like the RNC or whatever) thing comes up basically every time there's a right-wing convention or event or whatever. And it's been fake news many many times. Here's an example that turned out to be false.
I'm about as against LLMs and "generative AI" as a person can possibly be, but I've never really thought the argument "because it uses too much electricity" is a good one. Neither was it a good argument against blockchain (which I'm also as against as a person can possibly be.)
"Such-and-such uses as much energy as a small country." Yeah, but, you know what else uses as much energy as a small country? A small country. Should we abolish countries? Well, yes... but not because they use too much electricity. Or at least to single that out as the reason is to very much miss the point. It would be like quitting cigarettes because you know someone named "Sharon" who smokes and you hate people named Sharon.
For another example, do we want to abolish the gaming industry because it uses a lot of electricity? Like, it definitely uses a ton of electricity, right? There's no arguing that. If you add up the total electricity usage of every console and gaming rig on the planet, you're going to end up with a big number. And that big number translates into big greenhouse gas emissions. And, yes, that's bad. But at the same time, there's definite utility to gaming. Like, it's fun as fuck.
Not convinced by the gaming example? How about the healthcare industry? Should we abolish MRI machines and heart monitors because they use too much electricity?
Should we throw LLMs in the trash heap and look back on them with embarrassment? Yes, for sure. But not specifically because they use too much electricity. Because they don't fucking work for any useful use case.
I would be down for the argument that they use too much electricity relative to how much utility they give. But honestly, the utility they produce is zero (and that's if you're being charitable.) So... what exactly does bringing up electricity usage even add to the conversation?
I also would be down for the argument that companies are manipulating local governments and municipal utility companies to give them preferential treatment with regard to their power usage and destabilizing local power grids for people who use electricity for important things like cooking, cleaning, entertainment, etc. Let alone for more important things like in-home medical equipment, HVAC (lack of air conditioning can be a huge medical emergency sort of problem especially for older folks), communication lines to emergency services, etc.
There are plenty of things that use a lot of electricity that ought to be a thing of the past. And there are plenty of things that use a lot of electricity that... I think at least most people would be hard pressed to agree should be abolished. LLMs are in the former category. But you can't really convince people to abolish LLMs "because they use too much electricity" without using an argument that would equally well apply to things that almost no one would agree should be abolished (like health care), and unless your target audience is anarcho-primitivists who make up a pretty tiny sliver of the overall population, that's probably not a winning strategy. So leave electricity out of it and focus on the fact that LLMs are complete scams with no utility and the hype is causing massive concrete harms to real people.
10 seconds of googling indicates this is true for Windows and Mac as well. I haven't looked specifically, but I'd be a little surprised if it wasn't true for Android and iOS as well.
But really, why would they add rules to prevent people from using certain unicode codepoints in filenames? Should they disallow Klingon as well? Kanji? Of course not. Emojis are codepoints just like U+0061 is.
Of course there are good reasons to disallow things like newlines and forward slashes in Linux filenames, but what specifically would even be the argument for preventing emojis?
Yes, I think all government software should be FOSS.
(Ok, ok. Not all. I don't think it should be mandatory to distribute software. But if you do distribute software, I think the source code should be required to come with it and there shouldn't be any intellectual property restrictions on modifying it or distributing it, with or without modifications so long as you include the source code. Aside from that, distributing versions with malware included without sufficiently advertising that fact should be considered some sort of fraud or vandalism.)
But I'm under no illusion that there's any likelihood of that happening any time in my lifetime. One can hope, though.
Of your "possible challenges", the first two are complete fiction. FOSS would make it easier to properly maintain and update systems, complex or otherwise. And databases and code are two different things. Beyond that, I'll say that distributing software only in compiled form doesn't make anything more secure or hide anything about how the code works.
Edit: Oh, I also think a right to attribution is a good thing. It can be done poorly. (Like some of the earlier BSD licenses that would result in pages and pages of attribution for a single code project.) But done well, I think it's a worthwhile thing.
Not OP, but I have a printer (Ender 3 v2 Neo) with a z-probe that when you tell it to autolevel, it sets the bed and nozzle target temperatures to 0°. (As in, turns both heating elements off.) That's on the manufacturer's stock firmware. Even if you preheat before autoleveling, by the time it's done leveling, it's much cooler. So autoleveling hot is sometimes not an option.
All that said, I've never had anything like the issues OP has on my Ender 3 v2 Neo. But maybe OP has a bigger bed and that might make a difference as to whether autoleveling on a cold bed could cause OP's issue.
Two theories: first layer expansion and overextrusion.
If it's first layer expansion, what's happening is that your nozzle is too close to the bed when printing the first layer (so, less than 0.2mm if you're printing at 0.2mm layer height) causing a line of filament to "spread out" more than it should. Over long lines of filament like those on your first layer, that effect can compound. Ultimately it's trying to put more plastic down between those outer layers than can fit, causing it to "ripple"/wrinkle up. The fix would be adjust your z-probe-offset to make sure your nozzle has just a little bit more space above the bed on the first layer and then autolevel. Or on a machine with no z-probe (with just a z-endstop), to manually level the bed but leave a little more room between the nozzle and bed. If you go too far, you'll end up with first layer adhesion problems. Like, the first layer will curl up on the corners or will pop entirely off the bed mid-print.
If overextrusion, what's happening is roughly the same as I explained above. More filament than will fit is being laid down between those outer layers, causing it to wrinkle. The fix is to turn down your extrusion rate.
I don't think I've ever had issues with overextrusion myself. But I'm pretty familiar with that first-layer-expansion issue. And to be honest, when I have that issue, the wrinkling I have always happens parallel to the lines of filament on that first layer, while the wrinkles in your picture seem to go perpendicular. I still think those are the first things I'd try, though. So YMMV, but hopefully what I said above helps.
Also, I'd be skeptical that flotsam or scunge from previous prints could be the problem here specifically. Especially after soap and water didn't solve it.
Anyway, my 2¢. Good luck! Definitely worth reporting back if you find a solution!
Best part of SimCity 2000 was loading up your SimCity 2000 levels in Sim Copter and flying around in them. Sim Copter, despite being easily one of the least stable games I've ever played, was such a blast. And had so many easter eggs.
I never played Streets of Sim City, but I'm guessing the experience was pretty similar.
...what is it then?