I’m not sure the lidar tech is really that big of a game changer. Sure, the bambu printers do that layer detection, but so does the Anker. A lot of other ones can use a webcam to do print failure detection.

But if you’re not running 100 printers, you can just check the camera, or poke your head in the room every once in a while to see if anything failed.

I went from a Creality printer to a Prusa Mk4s on the last black friday sale. What sold me was that as they make new machines, you can just buy a kit to upgrade to the next version, instead of needing to buy a whole new printer. They’re also based in the EU, so even if they wanted to, they couldn’t do anything too bad in regards to privacy.

Doesn’t matter tho, cause I won’t turn on the cloud printing stuff, since I don’t see any benefit. Everything can be done exactly the same way without requiring external services.

Just sounds like they’re saying the “slippery slope” is false, but everything else stated was true.

3d party accessories are being disabled, and you can only use network connectivity if you connect to the cloud. They’ll have a solution for using Orca Slicer, but it still needs to phone home to work.

Glad I stayed away from Bambu and went with a printer that doesn’t need anything outside my network to use all the features I paid for.

Have you spoken to the business? Maybe they can offer a solution that you’re not aware of.

Maybe you can get a group text going with other patrons who will text the group about it? Maybe you can set up an RSS feed from their instagram account?

I don’t HAVE to play the game. If they don’t price it in a way that I’ll buy it, then I just won’t buy it.

I’ve never bought a lot of games, heck I don’t buy MOST games. I buy games that I’m interested in, when they’re priced in a way that seems reasonable to me. There’s plenty of companies (and individuals) out there who are selling me what I want, for the price I would pay for them.

I’ll put it on my steam wishlist and buy it when it’s $20 or less.

I’m still waiting for Elden Ring and BG3, there’s plenty of games to be played, I don’t need to get it day one.

I also get the advantage of not buying a buggy game that’s half finished. It’ll be cheaper and better if I wait, often with a bunch of the extra paid DLC included.

If you want a printer to “just work”, have an upgrade path to the next version when they come out, and don’t require a cloud account, then Prusa is a good choice.

If you want open source, open schematics, and open everything, then Voron based printers are a good choice.

There’s also tons of printers out there, just don’t support these shady lock-in manufacturers. Let’s not let 3d printing become what inkjet printing did.

I went the Local RSS Reader -> Google Reader -> Feedly -> Self-hosted FreshRSS myself. Kinda went full circle on this.

The content creators should be shouting about RSS from the rooftops. The only people that lose out are social networks, and startups. It would be more difficult for a new person to get a foothold, but at least we decide what we want to read on our own.