- Ulrich@feddit.orgEnglish8 hours
Its really disappointing seeing the 3DP community continue to embrace Bambu after the inevitable closure and self-proclaimed Apple strategy. Disappointing, but not really surprising.
- KickMeElmo@sopuli.xyzEnglish6 hours
They’re on thin ice with me. I have an X1C running the X1Plus third party firmware, so I’m spared some of their crap, but I’m watching warily. Don’t like the looks of things, and I’m not recommending their devices anymore.
- MonkeMischief@lemmy.todayEnglish6 hours
I just wanna thank you for being, seemingly the only person on the Internet that I’ve seen, to spell “warily” correctly and not be watching “wearily”, although this nonsense makes us all a bit of both. 😂
Anyway, Lemmy award for you that others might learn from your excellence. 🏆
(I’m being sincere lol)
- EvergreenGuru@lemmy.worldEnglish7 hours
I hadn’t heard of their company culture until recently, but as long as they’re being reviewed positively, then they’re not going to lose customers. I don’t personally own one of their printers, nor do I plan to, but online reviews are what moves units.
- 7 hours
I have one. I got it a while back and don’t know much about what’s going on. Even then, I run their software in a VM because I never trusted that they wanted to run services on my machine.
Controversy aside… it’s an amazing device.
- DiarrheaSommelier@lemmy.caEnglish5 hours
My buddy has a Bamboo. It’s pretty good. My Snapmaker U1 is way better, and is actually open.
- JustEnoughDucks@slrpnk.netEnglish5 hours
And is promised to be open, but their hardware is still proprietary closed source just like bambu and they use a proprietary hotend and nozzle that you can’t replace 3rd party, so if anything breaks and they decide not to help you, good luck fixing it.
Almost exactly how bambu started. Seemed to get better once 3rd parties cloned their proprietary parts (not of their own doing), then nosedived.
Looks like an amazing printer at a great price, but so did Bambu in the beginning.
- DiarrheaSommelier@lemmy.caEnglish3 hours
The opportunity for future enshitification is the main reason I’ll never connect mine to the internet. It’s a great printer, but I don’t trust any tech companies for basically the reasons you described.
- divingdonkey@sh.itjust.worksEnglish5 hours
Their printers just work. If you’re not interested in printers, but only printing the apple-of3d-printing is exactly what you want, which seems to be the majority of people. I own a Bambu and a sovol, to satisfy “both hobbies”. But at the end of the day, when I just need to print a replacement part I spent a non-trivial amount of time designing, my first pick is always the Bambu. Sadly, convenience beats freedom
3 hoursTheir printers just work.
So do machines like Snapmaker (U1) and especially Prusa, but without the amount of involuntary butt stuff.
And it’s not even true, the amount of issues with Bambu are piling up. A1 even manage to melt themselves recently, print failures with the print head becoming a plastic blob, the whole shebang. It’s the same with Apple indeed, as in people being ignorant in regards to all their issues because of the whole lifestyle feeling the marketing team managed to create.
- divingdonkey@sh.itjust.worksEnglish1 hour
If quality really drops, the problem should solve itself, as their target clientele probably will be looking for alternatives.
Their printers just work.
Until they don’t. I use OrcaSlicer, a perfectly good slicer for many 3D printers, including for my Bambu A1. However, I have it set to LAN-only mode and locked at v4.0.0.0, since the latest firmware blocks the use of third-party software (and hardware, if you bought one of those Panda Touch displays, those no longer work because Bambu said more e-waste!)
Although I have an A1 (and it prints quite well, but nothing special. It, like any other 3D printer, struggles with complex prints and has adhesion issues with taller ones), I no longer recommend Bambu printers because they as a company are no longer trustworthy. They have already blocked non-Bambu software and hardware, what’s stopping them from becoming the HP of 3D printers and restrict what kind of filament you can use? They have the RFID tags already, so it’s just a software patch that needs to be sent out.
Other companies have printers that work just as well while not locking down on a tight ecosystem. Prusa is the obvious alternative, but you also have Qidi, Sovol, Elegoo’s Centauri Carbon, etc. who are more price-competitive with Bambu, especially on the value end of the market
- divingdonkey@sh.itjust.worksEnglish1 hour
I fully agree with you. My next one won’t be a Bambu, but as long as my P1S works, it’ll be my main machine. And back when i bought my A1 mini, there simply was no comparable alternative in the sub 200€ range. It’s great that this is now a different story, but since printers take a couple of years to break down, the change in market share won’t happen overnight.
