[-] nullroot@lemmy.world 1 points 4 days ago

God dammit I just read record high over drugs and completely misinterpreted what this story is about. Time for me to go to bed.

[-] nullroot@lemmy.world 20 points 1 month ago

Bambu lab is just doing a capitalism, no one should be surprised. These guys have wide reach and bring many people who'd otherwise never 3d print into this world.

Also, they push all kinds of innovation in the industry. The h2d is arguably the best consumer printer on the market currently. My a1 mini is a workhorse with over 700 hours of prints on it. The thing is a champ that will likely never receive another firmware update and I'm okay with that. I already have a security camera pointed at the thing for better viewing, I can easily put the thing on a controlled outlet if Bambu handy stops working. I guess I'll lose the ability to exclude failed objects in a print, but I'm still not gonna knock this machine. It prints good and made me love 3d printing.

That being said my new qidi Q1 pro is open ish source, runs on a modified klipper and often produces better prints but is definitely quirkier. It has already frustrated me more than my a1 and taken more hours of troubleshooting and calibration at a third of the print hours.

I'm into electronics and a huge nerds who halfway got this to be able to tinker, mod, and fine tune, but I could imagine my experience with the qidi would turn off many to 3d printing. But my journey started with Bambu, a printer that just worked and turned me into a full fledged 3d printing nerd who is eyeballing a third printer because now I want a kit or bom and to build one.

I hope that wasn't too long winded or nonsensical, I'm a little on vacation

[-] nullroot@lemmy.world 8 points 2 months ago

Made me laugh a probably inappropriately loud amount in the hospital waiting room.

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submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by nullroot@lemmy.world to c/3dprinting@lemmy.world

Hello 3d printer fans and makers. I currently have an a1 mini and have been putting it through its paces over the last several months. Ive probably used 5kg of filament and have maybe a few hundred hours of prints on it. I love the little machine, its a work horse. But it cannot print most engineering materials and Im looking to branch into more exotic prints and get myself a bigger build volume.

My first thought was getting the a1 with ams for multifilament printing and then I would have an ams I could use with either printer, but upon ruminating on the subject multifilament printing this way really seems to be such a gimmick and if I really want to do it there's always stop code and manual filament switching. Plus its another bed slinger with the only real change being the larger build volume.

So that brings me to the Qidi Q1 Pro. All the reviews really talk it up, I like that its built on klipper and an open ecosystem (-1 for Bambu), the hotend max temp, the heated champer, the larger build plate, and the price? All seems like a big win to me.

My current plan is buying the printer along with a filament dryer, I dont really want to get their drybox attachment, a smooth build plate, some CF something filament, and 0.6mm nozzle as accessories.

Do you all have any thoughts on polydryer, if the 3 x-plus might be something to consider if I really want a bigger build plate than what the Q1 pro offers, or if there might be another printer for me to consider in the $500-700 range. Also, any recommendations on filaments I might want to try with a heated chamber, 100C build plate, and 350C capable hot end? Im leaning towards something nylon and/or carbon fiber... maybe PA-CF? lol.

Anyways, any input is appreciated. Thanks!

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Hello 3d printing community! I am looking to join the ranks and purchase my first 3d printer. Specifically I am looking at the a1 mini.

My use case is mostly functional, housing for electronics, hooks and jigs, that sort of thing, so I don't think I need the ams kit although the multicolor printing and support beams of different materials sounds nifty, I also hear bambu printers are really good with supports.

My biggest questions to the community are, is this a good choice? What filament should I start with? And I live in a dryer climate, is a filament dryer something I should definitely invest in, and if so what is a decent and decently cheap one you'd recommend?

Thank you for taking the time to read (and hopefully reply to) my post.

[-] nullroot@lemmy.world 48 points 9 months ago

Digging deeper into the comments it seems someone found the message was from a compromised polyfill code that was running on IA. Now the website is down from a ddos. From what I can see there's no reason to believe their servers and the data therein have been compromised.

[-] nullroot@lemmy.world 8 points 10 months ago

Have you not seen the literally cans of oxygen they now sell? I see them every time I go to my pharmacy

[-] nullroot@lemmy.world 27 points 10 months ago

Luke lived on a desert planet, of course he's warm!

[-] nullroot@lemmy.world 10 points 10 months ago

It sounds like a YouTube clone from the article, so long form videos storage and streaming isn't cheap, a lot more expensive than what x usually hosts in terms of bandwidth and storage per views. But yeah also seems like a niche use case.

Still no way there's a net cost benefit to video hosting from as revenue.

[-] nullroot@lemmy.world 18 points 10 months ago

Video hosting in general is not profitable, this is almost certainly not gonna do anything to help Twitter survive, hopefully they'll shoot themselves in foot even more.

[-] nullroot@lemmy.world 8 points 10 months ago

Haven't used 12ft in a minute but it kinda just broke the article for me. Css was overlaying text and it still faded out before the end of the article. Back to block js for me

[-] nullroot@lemmy.world 8 points 10 months ago

Oh, dogs. Sure, I like dags. I like caravans more.

[-] nullroot@lemmy.world 13 points 10 months ago

It's also easier to spy on their employees

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