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I have been 3d printing for a very short time, but I've already learned some stuff I wish I'd known earlier, and I'm going to write about it here now - both to benefit someone else who's just starting, and because I think it will be interesting to look back later and see how much I was or wasn't on the mark.

I printed mostly successfully with a goofy Z-offset for too long (not that long) but finally found the resource which would tell me how to go about fixing it. I prefer a simple written instruction, but ironically the answer was a video by Ricky Impey. If you would rather watch a video, just stop now and go watch it. If you would like the entire process explained to you in text from start to stop [by a human] instead, read on.

Subject tells the short story. Longer story, I wanted to start pipewire, pipewire-pulse, and wireplumber at KDE login. In troubleshooting I found that KDE is overwrought here. Instead of just starting the scripts named here with run-parts or similar, it creates .desktop files for them in .config/autostart. I didn't put a shebang (e.g. #!/bin/bash) at the top of the script. As it turns out, this breaks this whole facility because the .desktop files will just try to run the script as an executable and fail with an execve format error.

I've just installed Devuan Excalibur using mostly the OpenZFS instructions for Debian Trixie, as I did before except with Chimaera (which I then upgraded to Daedalus.) I had a grand old time getting it to boot and started over a couple of times, which is not a big deal because it does not take very long to get to the point where it doesn't boot. I had been using legacy booting and chose to try UEFI, which is working okay now.