Natanox
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- Comment on 3D Printer Reviewers: Being honest in this industry will put you out of a job. 2 days 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.
- Comment on (XMPP Setup Guide) Discord Was Never the End Game - TonyBTW 2 days ago:
They’re extremely new and open about what’s missing though. Their plans apparently got somewhat thrown all over the place by the sudden extreme interest and quite a few things aren’t yet in place (such as the self-hosting guide). Still works surprisingly well, and what they do goes into the right direction (no VC funding or investors, removal of the CLA, bound to GDPR, a full FOSS atack, etc).
- Comment on (XMPP Setup Guide) Discord Was Never the End Game - TonyBTW 2 days ago:
Element is still as buggy as ever, unfortunately…
The only realistic alternative I’ve found so far is Fluxer, and that one is still in Beta. Very promising though.
- Comment on Vaultwarden security update Feb 10 2026 2 weeks ago:
Might be a stupid question, but how are PR’s connected to your server deployment?
- Comment on Vaultwarden security update Feb 10 2026 2 weeks ago:
Renovate?
- Comment on big list of selfhosted chat apps to meet all your friends on a real "server" 2 weeks ago:
Good thing there isn’t a filter for “has working voice channels that aren’t a hot mess”, the list would be immediately and fully empty. With the exception of Mumble perhaps, but that one instead doesn’t have any text channels or community features.
- Comment on Sharkord - an open-source self-hostable Discord alternative with voice, video, and real-time messaging. 2 weeks ago:
Absolutely not impossible for a skilled dev with lots of free time. This is still an Alpha after all.
- Comment on GitHub - spacebarchat/spacebarchat: 📬 Spacebar is a free open source selfhostable discord compatible communication platform 2 weeks ago:
Where do I even start…
- The verification process constantly breaks
- Sessions get randomly unverified
- Pictures aren’t being send occasionally
- Their client is a UI/UX catastrophe
- Room Events are incompatible (esp. w/ Element X)
- The “experimental” voice rooms are total trash, settings are not working (e.g. auto-gain can’t be disabled)
- The Calls via Jitsi somehow have a worse UX than Skype had in its worst days
- The verification via emojis uses different emoji styles, missing the point completely
- Due to the session mess “Can’t decrypt message” will be your best friend
- Even if you got a verified session it sometimes fails to decrypt a message
- The federation is SLOW. As in “wait many many minutes” slow.
- The whole Spaces-with-detached-rooms concept is a mess
- There’re no proper moderation tools
- There isn’t even a god damn admin panel! For the longest time you had to MANUALLY CURL THE API. Even today you have to mess with third-party admin panels that usually don’t have all options exposed
- Encryption is nice, but Matrix leaking tons of metadata isn’t.
- They effectively stopped developing the Element client in favour of Element X, which isn’t available in desktop. And also loves to break during verification.
- Third-party clients sometimes work better, but certainly don’t expect anything but text chats with pictures there.
I really tried to like it, I even attempted to move a community over, attempted to self-host, all the jazz. It’s a steaming mess for years now with no end in sight, and literally everyone who tried it eventually left disenchanted. Don’t even bother trying it.
- Comment on GitHub - spacebarchat/spacebarchat: 📬 Spacebar is a free open source selfhostable discord compatible communication platform 2 weeks ago:
Because Stoat is also riddled with problems and Matrix is a dysfunctional hot mess.
- Comment on Interview with a ‘Just use a VPS’ bro (OpenClaw version) 3 weeks ago:
Do you want a scene-by-scene explanation of every command shown?
- Comment on Interview with a ‘Just use a VPS’ bro (OpenClaw version) 3 weeks ago:
I understood everything, and I hate it.
- Comment on Can mere dirt cause heatcreep? 4 weeks ago:
Good advice. I always wait until below 50°C hotend temp before I shutdown the machines. The issues I currently have also happen mid-print (after perhaps 5-10 minutes).
- Submitted 4 weeks ago to 3dprinting@lemmy.world | 9 comments
- Comment on 5 weeks ago:
I chose the Fairphone for the repairability and increased openness, but it’s also 2 to 3 times the price of a more common brand cellphone
Only outside of Europe or their free-trade partners, in Europe I can get a Gen 5 for 400€ and Gen 6 for about 550€. It’s extremely annoying for most countries, but regarding the US it’s 100% their regime’s fault for not having any comparable company (they get immediately smushed by Google, Apple & Co by any means necessary) or at least low / no tariffs with the EU zone (Trump literally killed a done deal in this regard one week before ratification with his threats of invading Greenland).
For instance, my laptop is a MNT Reform: it’s a very good laptop, but it’s literally 6 times the price of a comparatively-specced laptop from a big-box store.
Now that’s really special. :D There are a lot of “normal” (x86) devices on the market that are way more affordable as well. For a while Slimbook offered a modern native Linux laptop for <500€, and there are also companies like System76 (US), NovaCustom (NL) or Star Labs (UK) with laptops running on open firmware that come with less restrictions and powerful hardware.
For people who aren’t (yet) poor it’s mostly a problem of discoverability and lack of knowledge not to go with the more sane products. We get bombarded with ads promising the best experience on the usual platforms (that are as manipulative as possible). BambuLab also plays this game perfectly, their influencer marketing paired with VC-funded undercutting prices are top notch in getting people locked into their garbage.
- Comment on 5 weeks ago:
People who can’t imagine that should try buying a non-smart TV. It’s fucking impossible, unless 24-32 inch are enough for you (PC monitor size).
- Comment on Jeff Bezos said the quiet part out loud — hopes that you'll give up your PC to rent one from the cloud 1 month ago:
Way more even. Just look at emulation on Android, you can play good damn Sekiro on it by now.
Even if they manage to take away our desktops, Smartphones become beautifully powerful and can be docked to TVs and all via USB-C easily.
- Comment on Jeff Bezos said the quiet part out loud — hopes that you'll give up your PC to rent one from the cloud 1 month ago:
I had a good connection back then (FTTH 100mbit, <5ms latency) and it worked like shit. There are WAY too many variables that can screw up this cloud gaming stuff, the whole concept is messed up.
- Comment on Homelab hardware choices 1 month ago:
Nitrokey’s devices are also worth a look, they’re a European company based in Germany and really know their stuff. Their NitroWall routers run on Coreboot and come with either OPNsense or OpenWrt.
- Comment on What do you guys do with your poo? 1 month ago:
Sending it to Recyclingfabrik in Germany. Unfortunately access to high-quality filament recycling companies is very much dependent on your location.
- Comment on what do y'all use for CI/CD? 2 months ago:
Don’t they want to monetize those as well?
- Comment on Statistically, probably with the beetles. 🪲 2 months ago:
LÖMP!
- Comment on Selfhosted alternatives to Discord with screensharing? 2 months ago:
Perhaps Spacebar is a thing (the client of choice would be Fermi I think). Didn’t try it myself yet though, I do not know about how well its security protocol works. I’d assume it uses just a standard TURNS server for audio and video though.
Then of course there’s Matrix with Jitsi plugin, which will give you persistent headaches and a new appreciation of touching grass. It’s a mess, but hypothetically offers E2EE (if it works).
- Comment on Selfhosted alternatives to Discord with screensharing? 2 months ago:
it’s been flawless for me
What kind of deal-with-the-devil black magic fuckery have you done to be able to write that? I’m happy if Matrix actually sends damn pictures and gave up completely on verifying my sessions.
- Comment on Ordered my first 3d printer (ender 3 v3). What filaments should I buy why they're on sale for black Friday? 2 months ago:
I had a SUNLU filament dryer (never buy them, they’re cheap garbage). The power supply broke and I requested a new one. They replied once in broken english, but when I specified the issue in more detail and requested replacement they ghosted me as well.
I replaced the power supply myself. Shortly after the control board for the heater broke too. The whole thing is so bad it could be on temu.
- Comment on I dunno 2 months ago:
Why should anyone do that, an implied multiplication is the normal thing you learn in (I think?) somewhere between 5th to 7th grade. You only add an operator if it’s something else. It’s as basic as PEMDAS.
- Comment on Insulin 2 months ago:
Every time someone talks about you being supposedly free to choose where to work they should get instant diarrhea. Let alone medicine of course, that’s a hard dependence.
Nobody is truly free without proper UBI and free healthcare and good public transport. Only then true freedom can exist.
- Comment on Ordered my first 3d printer (ender 3 v3). What filaments should I buy why they're on sale for black Friday? 2 months ago:
I had issues with both SUNLU and Jayo. Jayo spools came tangled, smelly like hell (it was just PLA) and with “white” being a really dirty one (more light very bright grey), and SUNLU devices are total shit with their customer support not working at all. I’d never recommend those products.
- Comment on Ordered my first 3d printer (ender 3 v3). What filaments should I buy why they're on sale for black Friday? 2 months ago:
Creality and Anycubic are fine. If you’re looking for a general low-cost manufacturer try “TINMORRY” if they’re available in your region, I’ve good experiences with those.
For really high quality take a look at extrudr.
Do yourself a favour though, don’t buy bulks of filament from those cheap AliExpress brands (like Tecbears, Geeetech and such). They’re cheap and really bad.
- Comment on improving bridge appearance by increasing overlap and flow rates 3 months ago:
I really hope PrusaSlicer implements this soon as well.
- Comment on 3 months ago:
And the dad doesn’t care. Pfeh, typical. /lh
