u/LadyLoki5

I have tried several prints changing the Top Z distance from 0.2mm all the way up to 0.27mm.

Still my supports (tree) are very difficult to remove, and leave a lot of ugly damage behind when they are removed.

Using Elegoo matte white pla. idk if that matters or not. The prints themselves come out beautiful, it's just the supports are killin me.

I've been trying to Google suggestions but there's a LOT of suggestions so I'm just wondering what works for folks here.

Look, this is such a petty annoyance that I feel stupid for posting it. Nevertheless..

Like 90% of the Alexa usage in my household is setting timers and alarms. A lot of the timers are not like easily memorable chunks of time, but rather specific numbers - like just for an example, 13 minutes.

Up until the last 2 months I've never had an issue with this. I can set the timer, Alexa acknowledges the timer, and makes a sound when the timer runs out, and I could ask at any time, "how much time is left?" and it'll just tell me "There are 2 minutes and 10 seconds left on your 13 minute timer." It kept track so I didn't have to.

But now I can't seem to track the timers easily. Now instead, it goes:

> "Alexa, set a timer for 37 minutes."
> > "Timer set." > > (some time later) > > "Alexa, how much time left?" > > "What are you timing?

If I want it to tell me how much time is left on my timer, I have to specify: "Alexa, how much time is left on my 37 minute timer?" But the thing is, the timers are always for different numbers and I can't always remember how much time I set the timer for lol.

The app shows the timer just fine, but that defeats the purpose. I don't want to have to pull out my phone and navigate the shitty app to get to my timers. I don't want to have to specify how long the timer was set for, especially if there is only 1 timer running.

This is stupid, I know. I'm lazy and have a horrible memory, I know. I just want it to work how it has been working for the last ~8 years that I've had my device.

Any suggestions other than "just remember how long your timer was set for?"

Do I live in another world where the word "Jester" means something different? I assumed a "Jester" personality type would be someone who is carefree, funny, likes making others laugh? Why is my para pissed off or crying 90% of each day?

Is this broken?

This is so stupid, I know. I know! I know it's dumb. I know it's pointless. I know it's taking a single drop of water out of the ocean. I know I am changing exactly nothing.

But every time I read a thread or comment that references the bros, the fellas, the boys, or the dads, I downvote it lol. My tiny little petty protest. "Let's go boys!" "Fellas check this out!" Downvoted. 😒

What makes it even worse is my genre of choice is MMOs which historically has always had a very healthy female population. It is not rare at all to see women in MMO spaces. Why is it so hard to include us?

Rude.

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We have a Ninja foodi 2 basket air fryer that really only gets used during the warmer parts of the year so we don't have to turn on the oven when its 115F outside.

So our air fryer has not been used in like 4-6 months. I opened it the other day and was greeted by a stack of 4-6 month old mozzarella sticks and an overpowering smell of what I can only describe as wet cardboard.

Even though the sticks were only in one basket, both baskets stink. I've soaked them and scrubbed them a few times over the last week alternating dish soap and bleach, but they still stink like wet cardboard. The inside of the machine smells worse.

I've kept the baskets out of the machine over the last week to let everything air out. But no amount of scrubbing or soaking is getting this smell out.

I tried running the machine for a bit on the highest temp it will go to, hoping to "burn off" the smell.. but it persists. Did the same again with a little bit of water in the baskets, same result. I even tried cooking biscuits in it hoping to "override" the smell lol and just wound up with biscuits that smell like wet cardboard.

So now what? I'm ready to just throw it out. Anything else I should try before I do so?

I have an 8 year old husky. She is generally very calm and well behaved.

I do not work due to a disability so I'm home all day and we have a rock solid schedule. Final potty break of the evening is around 7pm and we are both in bed around 9pm. She has not needed an overnight potty break since she was a puppy.

Well, 2 weeks ago she was hanging out in the backyard and caught a damn bird right out of the sky. Ate most of it before I could run out back and get it from her.

She had an upset stomach for the next several hours, and was needing to go out about every 2 hours. Including throughout the night.

Her last request to go out was around 3am and then she was fine the next day and has fine ever since. Eating and drinking normally, acting normally, pottying normally (schedule aside).

Except now the schedule is disrupted and she is wanting to go outside multiple times throughout the night. She doesn't even do anything, sometimes she will pee but mostly she will sniff around and then just lay in the grass.

I've been trying to just ignore her, or push back the times she is wanting to go out as far as I can, but she will pace and whine for hours and hours until I let her out. It's been at midnight and 3am every day for the last week. She has never done this before.

I'm losing sleep and I'm losing my mind. Have not had to deal with these potty shenanigans in 7 years.

How the heck do I break her out of this now?

I'm just itching for another big epic sci-fi space saga like The Expanse.

Honestly out of the entire series, my fav book was the first, Leviathan Wakes. Miller was my fav character and I loved the whole vibe, burnt out cop going on kind of a rogue investigation on a gritty old space station, gets roped into a wild ass story way bigger than himself. The rest of the series was excellent too but that first book has a VERY big, and special, place in my heart. I'd love to read something else with a similar mood/theme.

I caught covid in 2020 and again in 2022. Both times saw a seemingly permanent and hefty drop in my quality of life and I've been fighting with my Dr ever since to try and find out what's happening and/or how to fix it.

The first time I got it in 2020, I spent about a week sleeping on the couch, sitting up, with my legs propped up on an ottoman. The congestion was so bad that I really felt like I was suffocating if I laid down. And it just.. never got better. I recovered from covid but still had CONSTANT congestion and postnasal drip. I had to constantly cough and clear my throat.

In 2022 when I got covid again, I actually wound up going to the ER because the phlegm in my throat got so thick, I was coughing up pieces of it that were almost like dried rubber cement. Super dense, thick, very rubbery feeling. I stood up one morning and felt a piece of phlegm get stuck in my throat, it was so stuck I could barely push any air through my throat and I thought I was going to pass out. I panicked, called 911, and while they were on their way I was able to get it out by forcing myself to cough very violently. In the ER they checked my lungs, said they were fine, but that it looked like my trachea is narrowed from scar tissue. They gave me some albuterol which helped tremendously, and I went home and recovered.

But the constant PHLEGM just never stops. Postnasal drip all day every day. I am constantly coughing, clearing my throat, and hacking up huge gobs of thick sticky phlegm sometimes as big as a quarter.

I am not exaggerating when I say that this is all day every day. From the moment I wake up until I fall asleep at night I am coughing and drowning in my own phlegm.

My Dr seems to feel pretty confident that it's just allergies mixed with possible long covid but it just doesn't feel right. My allergies were manageable before covid. Mucinex doesn't help much. Saline rinses help a bit but I have to do it A LOT.

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With all of that said - I was on tiktok (I know, cringe) and a random vid popped up talking about sjogrens. I have hypothyroidism and have seen sjogrens pop up a lot as a common secondary issue that happens alongside hypothyroidism, so I stayed to watch. A lot of the symptoms they talked about seemed to fit my issues, so I started reading their subreddit, but many of their comments mention silent reflux and I can't stop thinking back to my ER visit and their comment about the trachea scarring. I wonder if that couldn't be damage from acid?

Besides that, I don't consume caffeine frequently, but I have noticed that I am definitely worse off when I do have it. My diet is also fairly high in fat and I have a bad habit of eating one huge meal a day. However I've never thought to track diet vs bad phlegm days so I'll start doing that. I frequently feel like I have a lump in my throat. I also frequently get "air hunger" that also definitely gets worse if I have any caffeine.

Would it be completely stupid to try a round of otc omeprazole and see if it helps? Or is that something I really need to go to a Dr for first? Asking because I live in the greatest country on earth (big /s) and don't have insurance so a 2 week course of omeprazole is a lot cheaper than a Dr visit for them to just tell me "yeah try that."

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So sorry if this is too long and rambling. I've been reading for hours and my thoughts are all over the place.

tl;dr - went to ER for covid a few years back, they said my trachea is scarred. I have lots of constant phlegm and postnasal drip that's ruining my life. possible LPR? should I try otc omeprazole?