Comment on Looking to get my first 3d printer, any suggestions?

• Natanox@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  The older ones can get mostly hacked (not sure about their newest devices), but given Bambu’s increasing reliance on closed source code, custom parts that are not easily replacable and their financial need to lock people into their ecosystem (they’re backed by Venture Capital) it will be a constant fight. And you never know if they’ll lock down something with the next patch. Not to mention that, by using their services, you’re forcing others into soft-dependencies as well (e.g. their model website “MakerWorld” requires everyone who wants to download more than 5 individual parts to register = more data and ads for Bambu).

  There’s no reason to buy into something like that.

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  • SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Thingiverse is just a way to steal IP by Ultimaker. No one buys those shitty printers any more. You have to register with Prusa’s site as well. All 3D printing that is practical is backed by VC. These cheap hobby printers went nowhere until Bambu started up.

    I think a bunch of garage hobbyists need to wake up and realize the tech will not advance on the free model. See CNC technology.

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    • Natanox@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      My guy, first off: the current most powerful printer is the T250, which is 100% open-source. Secondly: Neither Printables (Prusa) nor Thingiverse (Ultimaker) needs a registration for people to download stuff. Not defending Thingiverse or Ultimaker, they definitely also did shit. But that doesn’t mean you have to step right into it (unless you’re into such things). Prusa also made some weird choices (by far not as much as others though). Thirdly: even modern printers with fancy new tech like toolhead switching can and are being build with Klipper as their control software (Snapmaker U1), and Sovol based their company around offering easy-to-use printers with off-the-shelf parts closely based on Voron designs. And I probably don’t need to explain how Prusa operates. None of them are perfect kof course, but there’s zero need for the kind of enshittification Bambu and Creality now stand for.

      These cheap hobby printers went nowhere until Bambu started up.

      You’re deluded. There’s nothing special about Bambu printers, except perhaps their (by now) awful failure rate and printer recalls. Although it might indeed be special to build printers where the hotend successfully melts itself, the newest problems with the A1 (not the first time Bambu printers are suffering from thermal runaway due to bad thermistors, literally the most dangerous failure there is). The one thing they do like a pro is marketing and capturing marketshare by selling underpriced hardware with increasingly closed software through influencer campaigns.

      To call everything that already existed when Bambu was created “cheap hobby printers” is just absurd.

      All 3D printing that is practical is backed by VC.

      Rofl, so Prusa printers aren’t practical. Noted.

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