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3D Printer Reviewers: Being honest in this industry will put you out of a job. (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 week ago by Ek-Hou-Van-Braai@piefed.social to c/opensource@lemmy.ml

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This is the emails between the YouTuber YGK3D and Anycubic, it seems like they won't send 3D printers to reviewers who mention their GPL3 license violations.

tl;dr Anycubic uses open-source software for their firmware, but doesn't make it public as per license agreement, and they don't seem to be friendly to anyone who calls this out.

More info: https://www.youtube.com/post/UgkxIMpZTkXqFo0H6pDwhZpdYqMYvLhPvWA5?lc=UgxA-4LYvwrnonXuXsZ4AaABAg

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[-] j5906@feddit.org 9 points 1 week ago

To be fair their printers (P1S and H2D) are reliable workhorses, I cant remember if I ever had a failed print and they are basically in 24/7 operation since a year. Never had to do any maintenance.

[-] COASTER1921@lemmy.ml 6 points 6 days ago

All my friends who have one rave about the reliability. I can't get one on principle. They're all at the mercy of Bambu's closed source firmware which means you're always only one automatic update away from a required subscription.

[-] j5906@feddit.org 4 points 6 days ago

Keep mine offline for that reason and I dont really need a firmware update (as long as they are not software locking replacement parts in the future, but in that case I am happy to trash the printer and never look back, its already payed itself of 100x)

[-] Croquette@sh.itjust.works 4 points 6 days ago

I got gifted a P1S, so I use it. But I stopped updating the FW and use Orca Slicer with the printer in LAN mode. Not optimal, but better than completely giving the control away to Bambu Lab

[-] muusemuuse@sh.itjust.works 1 points 6 days ago

I can’t get my p1p off the cloud. It’s a supported function. It just refuses to work if I use it. I cannot connect it to Ethernet or USB either. Almost like this thing was intentionally gimped