Qidi is also a Chinese company so what’s the difference? Most printers come from Chinese companies outside of companies like Prusa.
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dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world 19 hours agoThey’re slimy. Their machines use proprietary software and parts, and their software has a highly questionable always-online requirement that phones home back to their servers, which is something that really ought not to be happening with anything that may be able to identify what objects people are 3D printing. Even if they’ve walked back the always-online thing and allowed local only operation on some of their printers, that still demonstrates that they are not to be trusted.
Their company was founded by former DJI employees. That should really say it all.
ShepherdPie@midwest.social 19 hours ago
dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world 18 hours ago
Qidi does not have a proprietary slicer that phones home, and they have not been demonstrated to engage in any suspicious behavior.
My issue with Bambu isn’t that they’re Chinese. My issue is how they conduct themselves.
ShepherdPie@midwest.social 17 hours ago
There’s nothing to say that they can’t prevent your slicer from slicing some object the CCP has deemed should not be printed, or remotely brick your printer, or just simply refuse to allow their slicer software to connect to it anymore.
Seems like it’s at least somewhat related to being a Chinese company since you’re mentioning the CCP. I won’t argue that these aren’t things to be conscious of, but I think these fears seem overblown.
I do support open source projects, but I don’t feel like they really enabled me to do anything I can’t do now with the X1C in the 3.5 years of printing prior to owning this thing and the performance/experience has been so much better.
dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world 17 hours ago
Even if these are overblown, I personally refuse to tolerate setting the precedent that this kind of thing is ever okay, and once a company tries it they’re burned forever as far as I’m concerned. No one needs to be spying on me, for any reason, ever, and I will never do business with anyone who did it even if it was in the past.
Bambu Studio’s extremely fishy behavior has been very well documented, and I don’t think it’s work the risk doing business with its company for any reason when so many viable alternatives exist.
AbidanYre@lemmy.world 19 hours ago
Bambu’s Chinese warrant canary.
www.thingiverse.com/thing:2918509