Comment on Any recommendations for a low-cost, low-hassle printer?

• dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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.

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  • ShepherdPie@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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.

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    • dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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.

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      • ShepherdPie@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Trying to force people to use a cloud account just to get functionality of the piece of hardware they already paid for with no technical reason behind it whatsoever is ludicrous.

        There is a technical reason behind it which is integration with MakerWorld and being able to browse files from there and send them to the printer remotely from your phone or other device.

        Again, I won’t argue against the whole privacy aspect as I get it, but I just don’t really think it’s a big deal or something of consequence if we’re simply talking about 3D prints. They do have the option to use them locally now, but apparently this doesn’t include all their models (which you may have mentioned already or it was someone else).

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