The choice has been obvious for a long time, even back when my Prusa Mk3s+ was the latest Prusa printer.

Sure, but the point of this post is to highlight Bambu's anticonsumer practices.

I've been considering what printer to buy for a while now, but I sure as hell know it won't be a Bambu.

Thanks for this! Will check this out.

There are tons of better printers now that give you results similar to bbl without their bullshit, you don't need to suffer (unlessyou want to).

Prusa go brrrrr

I may need to manually level my bed every time I print, but I never see ads, and have zero privacy holes in my printer.

And it's gonna stay that way. And when it eventually dies, it's time to harvest the corpse and build a voron printer.

I mean... I wish my printer worked as well as all my Bambu friends, but this helps a little... this helps...

Just of note, many other brands are now very competitive with Bambu, even beating it in value in some cases! For example, Qidi has some very good value enclosed printers like the Q1 Pro and the newer Q2, Elegoo's Centauri Carbon is exceptionally good for the price, the Snapmaker U1 undercuts Bambu's H2 series by a lot while being compatible with OrcaSlicer OOTB, and of course you have Prusa being cool as always, letting users upgrade from the MK4S+ to the Core One with a kit, which can later be upgraded again to a tool changer with the upcoming INDX.

I replaced 2 ender 3s with a bambu a1 after confirming I can just use SD cards to print... I don't deal with whatever is going on.

I regret not doing it sooner. Granted I wouldnt choose Bambu today. Enders are nice but so damn slow.

They are all versions of Slic3R.

Does it work outside LAN Only mode?

What I would like was something like:

• From LAN and any damn slicer of my choosing, send prints directly to printer. Read printer and ams state.

• From bambulab handy, slicer, etc, the same as above.

I don't see why these should be mutually exclusive options.

Pihole and dns can only block ads that come from a separate ad network. It's unlikely that Bambu is using an ad network for the ads inside their slicer. That's also why Pihole does nothing for youtube ads.

Oh wow, this went completely under my radar (how didn't anyone brought it up in any of the videos recently made about how shitty Bambu is?). Seems like at least a few people didn't know though, so I'm just leaving it here. :)

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