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OK, since you mentioned the media, putting "gate" after any government scandal. Nixon's scandal was involving the Watergate Office Building.

The solution ended up being a setting on the printer that was overriding the firmware setting. I found the answer here.

In case anyone is having the same problem, It seems that the settings stored in the printer overwrides the FILAMENT_RUNOUT_DISTANCE_MM in the firmware. So I just went the the printer configuration -> advance configuration -> filament and then I changed the runout distance and stored the settings.

Good arguments. Fun fact: My first accident occurred when I was looking over my shoulder to change lanes. The road was also sheer ice.

Yes. Me. I was taught that the mirrors were supposed to be aligned with the sides of the car. You're supposed to look over your shoulder to change lanes and not rely on the mirrors.

Similarly, adding gadgets to cars is not a substitute for a car with well designed visibility. I've driven so many (rental and test drives) cars where I can't see out well. Many of the manufacturers will just throw in electronics as the answer.

Fun fact, many of the external sensors don't work well in winter driving conditions, especially freezing drizzle.

I'm having difficulty backing into parking spots with the mirrors set this way, too. I don't do it too often, and I was hoping someone here had a solution.

Good point on motorcycles. I still look over my shoulder for lane changes, probably out of habit now.

This works for if there is or isn't an afterlife.

I read a philosopher's take once that we're here to experience things like physical things or emotional things. We choose to come here to have these experiences and then go back as a more matured person (soul?). I like to think of it like we're on vacation and then we go back and do stuff and plan another vacation.

This is a good start to explain it. Many of the posts here are also neglecting that the air around the earth is also moving along with the earth, but often at a different speed. It is not fixed in space.

For example, if you've ever paddled a canoe across a flowing river, you'll either end up not across from the point you left from or you've steered the canoe as if you were intending to land upstream. This is because the water is pushing the canoe downstream.

Also, the comments (as if the time of this post) are all neglecting the point of reference.

An analogy on point of reference would be if you're on a train, sitting at a table facing the rear of the train and the train is moving in the forward direction at a constant speed on a plain, if you drop an orange on the floor of the train, will it immediately roll to the back of the train?

In airplanes there is often a big difference between land speed and air speed. That is (one of the reasons) why the return trip is not the same duration when you travel in the east-west (or west-east) direction. The airplane is pushing against the airaround it whereas a car is pushing against the ground (Earth).

Same. I was taught in school but never learned how to use them until I read this (The Oatmeal).

I read something long ago that I can't find anymore that said something to the extent of, pay attention to the movement of money, troops and people. I struggle to understand what stuff that the news reports on means, so I like the deeper stories that report on an expert's opinion of what somebody said means or shows like 60 minutes over the Nightly News. I avoid the bloggers and vloggers since they are not experts on the important topics.

Thanks for the reply, it's good advice to try looking at the sensor as a unit by itself. I did take it apart because in some of the reviews, people said that the mechanism inside of the vase jiggles as the filament is pulled in and out during retraction. I ended up wedging some plastic from a raspberry clamshell container (cleaned). Inside, there are two bearing wheels, one fixed and one that compresses the switch. The lower wheel turns another wheel with slots like a wagon wheel with a light sensor on the spokes to detect movement. It seems to work like a mouse scroll wheel.

There are 3 wires. From what I read, one is ground, one is +5v and one is SPI (from memory, I could be wrong). I can definitely check the switch part.

I was originally hoping to hear from a fellow Ender user with a simple, "yes it works without modifications" or, "I followed different instructions to make it work". In thinking through your post, however, I may flip off the motion detection portion of the firmware code and run it as a simple switch to see if that works as expected.