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It’s a bit hard to tell from that photo, but just generally I’ve found this to be an excellent resource for diagnosing print quality issues and potential solutions:
https://help.prusa3d.com/category/print-quality-troubleshooting_225
In particular for this print, you might find the “Layer separation and splitting FDM” and “Layer shifting” sections helpful
Old and busted: Twitter is the global town square
New hotness: X is the global town sewer
I use https://github.com/nirajsanghvi/docker-gphotos-sync, which is a fork of Jake Wharton’s Docker wrapper with an extra option baked in to prevent redownloading previously downloaded files. It relies on the gphotos-cdp tool which uses the Chrome Dev Protocol to headlessly browse the Google Photos site and download your photos one by one. The reason for this, assuming you store your photos in Google Photos, is it’s one of the only ways to get your photos in their original quality and also retain EXIF information (Google Takeout loses the EXIF info).
A warning though, it can be quite finicky to setup, particularly with obtaining your account cookie for the first run. In the past it’s taken me several attempts before success. However, once it’s running it’s pretty reliable with an occasional stall requiring a container restart (there’s issues for this on the parent repos, but they were complicated problems to solve so they’re still open, and occasionally needing to restart the container when the healthcheck fails once every couple of months hasn’t been too bad).
They’ve been terrible for years, I switched to 9to5Google a long time ago
One thing that might be Pixel-specific is it lets you adjust the selection after the initial copy, prior to pasting it elsewhere. One thing that may be more universal (maybe?) is copying from the recent apps screen (the one that shows when you swipe up partway and see all open apps) uses OCR so you can copy from anything, including apps that have normally blocked that functionality.
On the flip side, as pointed out in the video, removing the display gives you access to the keyboard (with Touch ID), trackpad, and decent quality speakers in a much cleaner footprint. And it’s really not that difficult to do.
It’s also flattening everything which to me was one of the more fun parts of the design with elevation and shadows inspired by layers of paper.