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Comment on The Enshittification of 3D Printers – Are We Losing What Made Them Great?

I don’t understand why this is such a big deal. There is no huge open source scene for regular printers. Because it’s a tool, not a hobby. People want a print on paper and move on, not a new hobby. This gatekeeping gotta go: It’s holding 3D printing back. Bambu did for 3D printing what Apple did for mobile phones: They made 3D printing clean, simple and easy. If you want to fiddle around with custom firmware and usability hacks and cobbled together components, power to you. I’ll be over here, actually printing things.

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4am@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
Can’t wait for the thing I bought and own to suddenly cost $5 a month

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Paradox@lemdro.id ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
Fwiw the open source scene literally got started because of a printer

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John@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
For me learning about a product and how it work is empowerment. Having the right to repair and a easily serviceable device is empowerment.

Closing down the software until you don’t even know what the device is doing is gatekeeping.

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- Auli@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  Cool and there are things you can do that with even 3d printers have fun tearing it apart and flashing firmware and dialing it in just right all the power to you. Others just want to print.
  
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  - John@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
    Im offended by proprietary privacy-invading bullshit build on the work of a FOSS Community, im sorry.
    
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jagged_circle@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
Lol wut. What’s thingiverse?

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