Comment on 3D Printer Reviewers: Being honest in this industry will put you out of a job.

PonyOfWar@pawb.social ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

• Natanox@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  The most trustworthy reviews are always those where the reviewers just bought the products.

  So much this. One reason why there are so super few honest Bambu Lab reviews out there, they understood how to do PR through influencers and used their VC money to send thousands of devices everywhere for basically free (and keep doing so) to build an overly positive lifestyle image. Those few who do actual deep dives and get cut off from new free devices simply drown in the masses. Meanwhile their printers melt themselves and the A1 Mini apparently likes to catch fire.

  Anycubic is a whole different beast, they’ve known to basically steal stuff for many years (like when they took Prusa’s first-gen MMU design and successfully patented a slightly different design). Shit like this is one of the reasons Prusa is meddling with new licenses in the first place.

  Creality now went IPO and is blasting every corner of their products with AI. Elegoo also already broke licenses to close off their devices.

  Pretty sure vendors like Snapmaker, Sovol or QIDI also have done a sufficient amount of shit.

  Capitalism will always be a shitshow like this, and it’s annoying. Ethical or even lawful behaviour shouldn’t be something you have to be able to afford, it should be the fucking default because it’s made free and beneficial to everyone.

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  • bort@sopuli.xyz ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    vendors like Snapmaker

    so far Snapmaker seems to have a good trackrecord, and has earned the trust of many, as their successful u1 kickstarter showed.

    they promised to opensource large parts of their by end of next month. Lets see how that turns out …snapmaker.com/…/33344279396759-Snapmaker-U1-FAQ#…

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    • Buffalobuffalo@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      What firmware does the Snapmaker U1 use, and is it open source?

      The Snapmaker U1 runs on Klipper firmware, with Moonraker for API management. Both have been modified by Snapmaker and are scheduled to be released as open source before March 2026…

      From the provided link, running out of days to keep that promise.

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  • defaultusername@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Who isn’t shitty and affordable at the same time in the 3D printing space?

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    • MrSpArkle@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Used Prusa.

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