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3D Printer Reviewers: Being honest in this industry will put you out of a job. (media.piefed.social)
submitted 2 months ago by grue@lemmy.world to c/3dprinting@lemmy.world
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cross-posted from: https://piefed.social/c/opensource/p/1823177/3d-printer-reviewers-being-honest-in-this-industry-will-put-you-out-of-a-job

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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[–] cookiecoookie@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

Anycubic has been an extreme example of how not to be a good company. No software /firmware support, theft, malfunctioning hardware and software, and that's not even the tip of the iceberg.

[–] imetators@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Cant they be sued due to failing to fulfill GPL3 license requirements?

[–] Ek-Hou-Van-Braai@piefed.social 1 points 2 months ago

I wish the EU (and US) would block the sale of products that violate GPT3 licensees.

That's the easiest solution I see to this problem.

[–] fluxx@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Wasn't following the guy, but I will now. Fewer and fewer people in yt 3D printing space remain that care about the ethics of the companies selling this and more and more are just bambu sponsored.

[–] grue@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Bambu sponsorships are a fucking plague.

[–] 0xd34d@sh.itjust.works -1 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Sounds like you need Morgan & Morgan

[–] Omgpwnies@lemmy.world -1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Well, I got Captain for one, but what's the other Morgan?

[–] prex@aussie.zone -1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)
[–] FatVegan@leminal.space -1 points 2 months ago

Can't really hear you over the superb sound quality of my raycons

[–] deacon@lemmy.world -1 points 2 months ago (3 children)

I want to get into 3D printing before it’s outlawed and I’ve been gravitating to Bambu because I’m novice enough that marketing works. Where should I be looking? Price is a consideration but not my first.

[–] Killer57@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

Strongly suggest not going with Bambu, they have a history of attempting to start a walled garden ecosystem, the only thing that has stopped them thus far is backlash.

[–] GrindingGears@lemmy.ca -1 points 2 months ago

It depends on what you want out of the hobby honestly. 30 years later, I just want a printer that works, without fuss. I've done the customizations, I've done the firmware flashes and attached third party controllers. But I'm a huge fan of my Bambu P2S, because it just works. In over 300 hours I've only had 2 failed prints. I haven't done one iota of really anything to it. Plugged it in, and the things just been chugging away. Lots of parts availability, locally and online (which is huge). Lots of support available locally too.

My previous printer, an Anycubic coincidentally, used to take like 4 or 5 false starts before you could finally get a good first layer.

I get the hate, I get that people want customization and what not. But some people just want shit that works. That's why I look at Bambu as the McDonalds of 3d printing. It ain't that healthy for you, it's a scourge on the planet, but it also tastes kinda good and it's a guilty pleasure from time to time, right?

Yes theres Prusa and all sorts of other printers that are good too, don't take this the wrong way. Run your own journey for sure. But I'm running mine too.

[–] phx@lemmy.world -1 points 2 months ago

Yeah ironically one of the reasons I used an Anycubic, because while they may have issues with FOSS compliance, the firmware I did load on there (Rinkhals) isn't

[–] fluxx@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

IMO, toolchangers are the future trend in 3d printing. Snapmaker U1 is the current hype due to being relatively cheap and using open source klipper based firmware. Other than that, Prusa has a toolchanger, I would prefer them over Bambu any day. But me personally, I will either wait till U1 becomes cheaper or wait for a diy OSS solution like Voron with IDX once it comes out. But that definitely shouldn't be anyone's first printer.

[–] captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works -1 points 2 months ago

Look for a used Prusa.

[–] tiramichu@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

I'm glad to see people going public with these sorts of shenanigans.

The thing about maker communities is that makers generally appreciate the importance and ethics of "not stealing other people's shit," and putting companies on blast for it does in this community hurt their bottom line.

And when it hurts their bottom line, that drives action.

Elegoo wouldn't release their firmware for the Centauri Carbon claiming it was proprietary, until someone proved it was just modified Klipper, and therefore in breach of Klipper's license. And the community backlash was strong enough that Elegoo were compelled to release it.

So yeah, do the good work and keep making these companies accountable.

[–] GrindingGears@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 months ago

Anycubics support has always been trash. There's whole groups about it. I had a little bedslinger from them, it was sort of ok for what it was, but it was wildly inconsistent day to day, and they pretty much drop any sort of updating or support for their products day 2 after release. I spent a lot of time dialling that thing in, but you'd get something tightened up and dialed up, and then three other issues would rear their head. It was like playing wack a mole. Their idea of support is you have to kiss up to this specific person on their Facebook groups and hope they play along and respond back to you, because they don't often answer emails and when they do it's basically just a feedback loop. Then it's just back and forth. I ain't got the patience for that stuff anymore.

I only want the higher end stuff now.