Can you manually heat up that hotend and then advance the feed while pushing in some new filament by hand? If you use a different color, you will be able to tell when the old color has been purged.

As someone who likes cooking but not every day; I would ask you what is it that you don't like about cooking? The smell, the texture, the time it takes, the level of attention it requires?

Anxiety is usually the culprit with me. Some meals, I just don't like and I loathe to make them. Others are not really that good and are a bit challenging to make. I usually avoid those as if they don't exist.

Maybe try to make something simple and easy but the goal is not really cooking, but instead allowing your wife to not have to cook. Grilled cheese sandwiches, canned soup, or even warmed up leftovers. The key here is doing something for your wife/family at meal time. Focus on helping them out and not so much with the quality of the meal.

I found my own interest in cooking when I wanted to recreate a dish I had at a restaurant. The dish was beef stroganoff. It was really good and I wanted to be able to have it any time I wanted. Now it was a puzzle. I found several recipes, noted where they were similar, where they were different, and made a new recipe that used the items that were always included and left out the items that were not. I made it. It was really good. I was really proud of it. Everyone else liked it too. A week or two later, I made it again. Each time I made it, it got slightly better and a little easier, and came together faster.

I now have about ten meals that I make all the time. I make them so often that I no longer need the recipe. Some of them have evolved a bit and can now be made with two or more variations. If I include the variations, it's probably closer to thirty different meals, but they all have the same basic structures.

Some of my favorites are really simple.
Baked California vegetables ([frozen] broccoli, cauliflower, carrots) with melted cheese is one of them.
Preheat the oven to 375°F. Line a sheet pan with parchment paper. Add enough of the vegetables to mostly cover the pan without overlapping. Pour 2-4 tablespoons of light vegetable oil over the vegetables and mix them with your hands until most of them have at least some oil on them. Spread the vegetables out on the tray. Sprinkle (to taste) with salt, freshly ground black pepper, and smoked paprika. Cover the vegetables with a layer of shredded sharp cheddar cheese. Place the tray in the oven on the middle rack for about 45 minutes or until the cheese is melted and has started to brown.
Start to finish, the prep time for this recipe is about the same as it takes to preheat the oven.

You should be able to. You will probably have to exit out of the calibration setup. but I don't expect that is much of a big deal.

Also, after reading some of the other comments here, I would suggest looking closely where the Bowden tube enters the hotend. (see arrow in the linked picture) There is a fitting right there that will allow you to remove the tube. Push the black ring down and gently pull up on the tube. It should pull right out. Then it's a simple matter of, heating up the hotend, grab the broken filament with your fingers or a pair of pliers, and perform your filament removal step. Replace the tube once the filament has been removed.

From my perspective, he's still salty about her making fun of him back in the 90s on her daily TV talk show. He made it worse by not letting it go and taking out full page ads in the New York Times in response. She would then show the ads to the audience and read it on the air. Then she would make new jokes about what a giant man-baby he was.

That was enough to convince me, then, that Donald Trump was not a good person. That was about 25 years ago. I have not changed my mind about him. In fact, I dislike him much more now than I did then. It astounds me that anyone voted for that moron.

So instead of laughing and letting it go, Musk makes sure everyone knows he is a dipshit.

Back before the election, Trump spoke about the fictional character Hannibal Lecter, at least twice, like he was a real person. Trump was never cognitively there!

Those holes are almost certainly made by a woodpecker. That probably isn't the real problem though. That wood is almost guaranteed to be infested with insects.

Unfortunately, this knuckle-dragger is not capable of admitting, perhaps even understanding, that he brought all of this on himself. Everything bad that happens to him is someone else's fault. Everything good that happens was his idea.

I get what you are saying, The kid is not the problem though. Describing the child as a "meat shield" is not a dig against the kid. It's about what Elon Musk, the child's father, is doing to him. Elon Musk is wearing his own son over his head to keep from getting shot when he goes outside. He is using his own child as a human shield. Elon Musk has turned his own flesh and blood into a meat shield!

The lack of a person watching you check out does not mean no one is watching. They absolutely are and you are being recorded the entire time you are in the store.

I am of the opinion that closed-minded thinking is only part of the issue. The other part is there are well financed interst groups who work hard to create and encourage division in order to prevent regular folks from working together for a common cause.

The reason is simple: convince people to fight amongst themselves and they will be too busy to notice how much they are being ripped off by the tiny handful of rich people at the top.

Stunning? Don't you mean predictable? Trump has been a puppet for Russia the entire time. He takes Russia's side every chance he gets! How is this not obvious at this point?

I don't know what the current pay rate is for that job, but I am certain that if the pay was double of whatever it is now the worker shortage would suddenly vanish!

I admire his optimism, even if I don't share it.
Trump is not to be trusted. Trump is a liar and a thief. I have never seen him to be anything else.

Switching sides? Donald Trump has never had any real interest in helping Ukraine. That was true the first time he was president. This is not new.

I'm pretty sure this is all about his pension. If he retires now, before Trump takes office, there isn't much that can be done to take his pension away from him. If he stays on and Trump fires him for cause, he will likely get nothing for retirement.

I would hold up my hands and show all seven of my fingers.

Genocide is not exclusive to Jewish victims. It is not anti-Semitic to say that.

Genocide can be committed by anyone. It is not anti-Semitic to say that.

Genocide is being committed by Israel's military against the people in Gaza. It is not anti-Semitic to say that... but it is sad.

It is even sadder that my government, instead of stopping them, continues to help Israel commit genocide.

The bar in the picture is one kilogram or about $65,000 US dollars. Ten bars would buy a very nice house in my area.

Because Warner Brothers owns the rights to all DC games right now and nobody at Warner has any idea how to actually produce good video games. The Arkham games were good because they came out before loot boxes and online-only games were a thing. Now if a game doesn't earn a billion dollars in the first year, the game is considered a failure.