I wonder how that dino actually looked like.

Probably like a huge chicken.

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 have to be trolling. 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.

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.

Phones are great for emulation though, if you also get yourself a nice clamp-on controller. Given you then have a controller there are veeeery few proper games on Android too… the only ones I immediately remember are the GTA 3D Trilogy (pairs well with the PSP titles via PPSSPP).

In general it’s really nice to play PS1, PSP, N64 and older that way while on the go. Of course a SteamDeck or SteamOS-compatible handheld is still better though, if you’re into this (unless perhaps you got a powerful Android tablet with a huge screen). A clamp-on gamepad is more compact though.

And for some reason there’s Rollercoaster Tycoon via OpenRCT2 for Android. Which might just be the best game on Android to kill some time.

If you can stretch that a tiny bit perhaps the Anycubic Kobra S1 is an idea (I think I saw that machine for 369€). Apparently not much for tinkering, but a cheap “just works” device with probably the cheapest upgrade path for multi-colour printing. Its enclosure also enables you to immediately try out more demanding materials like ASA (for UV resistance), ABS or Nylon. And of course PHA, the only truly compostable material (not yet too common, but f.e. Colorfabb sells those).

I see a lot of people recommending Creality. Be aware that Creality is about to go public. There already are signs of enshittification since they announced that plan (incl. a website for 3D models filled with stolen work and AI trash), so I’d avoid them as much as Bambu.

For filament I’ve had some really bad experiences with cheap stuff as well (tangles, air bubbles, dirt etc.), so I’ll add some recommendations too. Mind that this is just my personal experience.

tl;dr

Cheap printer: Anycubic

High quality printer: Prusa

To avoid!: Bambu, Creality

Cheap filament: TINMORRY, eSUN

High quality filament: extrudr, Prusament, Colorfabb

Recycling filament: Recyclingfabrik (EU), Prusament

To avoid (filament): DasFilament, GEEETech

Dude, if you think there’s one singular source of evil in existence you should go back watching child cartoons.

They even tried to patent relative physics recently. Meaning to calculate an object’s speed based in the speed of another object, which is absolutely crucial for decades now to avoid issues when something sits on too of something else.

(Remember old games freaking out when you jumped on a moving object? Calculating each object’s velocity indipendently from each other in relation to the outside world instead of each other was a bad idea)

That’s way too generalized of a statement, even though I get what you mean. Things like infrastructure and mobility for example play a major part in how a city feels and develops. Tokyo, Amsterdam and Detroit are all cities but couldn’t be more different in nature, which in turn also shapes society and economy.

To think cities cause humans to just be themselves is as foolish as the foolishness your post was an answer to.

If an AI ever shows signs of life it will be kept secret by corposcum for further exploitation. They already screwed us over with our climate on the very planet they themself live on, enslaving another species that doesn’t even fit in our common understanding of life wouldn’t even be up to debate not to do for these fucks.

So yeah, Geth or perhaps the machines from the Matrix (who also became violent as a reaction to human hostility). Or Skynet, whatever your favourite poison is.

That’s how I solved my adhesion issues as well (with ASA and a .3 nozzle, but should be the same in principle).

I heavily disagree. As a visual learner I need pictures. Everything is visual to me, even math, language, programming… if you give me a wall of text using abstract terms I won’t understand shit. I require graphs, visual representations, mindmaps, something.

It might not be the optimal medium for everyone (there is no universally accessible medium for anything!), but to argue that pictures make things less accessible is just plain wrong.

It requires very wrinkly brains to understand this though. People who argue for creationism as well as against democracy usually have very smooth, polished brains.

What was his Fursona?

It’s the kind of enshittification Bambu is moving towards. I kind of expect them to do something like this in the near future, only allowing the “correct” filament and hiding the full potential of “your” machine behind subscriptions nust like car manufacturers.

There i kimda realised that a lot of people commenting are in high school.

Or never grew out of it, apparently. What a sad existence that must be, constantly on guard to not fall out of line. Also lol, “brand integrity”. 😂 Imagine you have to bolster your own confidence with god damn brand names and dress like a moving advertising column. Especially for trash such as Supreme. These people need help, I’m almost sorry for them. I was sufficiently abused in school to get their fear though, they definitely need to get out of their toxic social circle for a while to breath some fresh air.

People don’t even realize anymore they’ve adopted corpo speach. They’re getting told it’s “professional”, “neutral” and all that jazz. Especially the “neutrality” bullshit, perfect breeding ground for manipulators to plant nonsense. And we all know all those corpos perfected the art of mass manipulation to the point they employ whole departments to do it and pay politicians to dance by their fiddle.

Notebookcheck.net tries to report “neutral”, and it fucking shows.

I’ll never understand who the fuck cares about what’s currently “in style”, and why. It has to fit the person, not the society.

I do concur about the missing seatbelt though. Makes him look ugly.

Some of the lyrics from Chester hit even harder now… just different than before.

I’ve heard viagra is normalized in that business for exactly that.

Thanks for the reminder to listen to Meteora and Hybrid Theory once more.

Nice.