I got a P1S as a Christmas present for me and my wife. For now, my plan is to block its internet connection and stop using the Bambu app altogether. When/if it his stops working for me, what does the community recommend as a replacement for newbies like me, or future newbs who haven’t made this mistake?

    • mipadaitu@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      19 days ago

      I’m kinda surprised there haven’t been hands on reviews yet. I’m also kinda glad cause it means they aren’t sending out special review units to everyone just to get good stories out.

  • kata1yst@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    19 days ago

    Unfortunately an heir apparent isn’t readily… Apparent in my eyes. All have tradeoffs. To be fair, Bambu did too but hid it better from most consumers.

    Qidi isn’t terrible, and they have a decent track record. Their use of klipper is a big plus as well. But multi material is still a promise with no release or reviews, and they have had some duds in their history.

    Prusa is an obvious option, and previously wore the crown. They’re a good bit more expensive, but perhaps that’s the cost of a highly ethical company that is deeply invested in the community. MMU is well understood and works great, but isn’t integrated in their latest printers yet.

    Voron is amazing but absolutely still not for beginners. Besides that they lack for absolutely nothing. Some kits are approaching the user friendliness of pre built, but care and feeding is generally a more technical endeavor.

    Creality is a good place to start generally, but lacks for features.

    Long story short, if a friend approached me and demanded a recommendation, I’d push a casual user to Qidi, a demanding user to a Prusa, and a tinkerer to a Creality with the understanding I’ll be printing voron parts in a year or two

  • NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zipEnglish
    13·
    19 days ago

    The sad reality is that we are going to see more and more printer companies building up walled gardens. There is money in models and the end goal is going to be one model site per slicer per manufacturer. There will still be the open source build your own printers but… there is a reason everyone recommended a Bambu over one of those.

    As of right now? Qidi are pretty awesome in the semi-proprietary space and have a good track record of releasing the g-code macros required to interface with their printers (e.g. chamber temperature controls). Time will tell what they do with their multi-material solution though.

    • IMALlama@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      18 days ago

      I don’t think we will reach the point of walled gardens for finding/downloading STLs. A lot of us are massive nerds and someone will stand up another STL host. There’s also GitHub, but without a STL aggregator it does kind of stink.

      Most of the STLs are also developed by the community and are generally free themselves, although some are trying to create a revenue stream for themselves on places like Cults. I don’t think that’s a walled gardens though - creators are choosing to post their content there and ask $$ for it. Unless someone like Bambu pays top dollar for models, I don’t think they’ll be able to take over the STL market.

  • Tinkerer@lemmy.caEnglish
    7·
    19 days ago

    Yeah this sucks, I just bought an a1 mini with AMS, I love it. I do have it in LAN Mode with no internet and I still use bambustudio since I believe that is open source no? Lets hope they reverse this but I don’t see them doing that. Hope I can still use the printer without upgrading the firmware or somebody is able to make open source firmware for the a1 mini…

    Man I hate tech space right now, every company grinding out as much money as possible anyway they can because “security”…

    • Quack@lemm.eeEnglish
      9·
      19 days ago

      Try out OrcaSlicer. Same UI as Bambu Studio, actually open source and has more features. Can even login to your Bambu account to sync your filament settings.

    • Bronzebeard@lemm.eeEnglish
      3·
      17 days ago

      None of which are all that reassuring.

      Q: Do you plan to do this bad thing?

      A: Definitely not…Yet

      • RacerX@lemm.eeEnglish
        2·
        16 days ago

        Yeah the fact that it’s definitely even come up as a discussion topic isn’t reassuring. Just wanted to add it to the discussion.

  • epchris@programming.devEnglish
    61·
    19 days ago

    I have an order for a P1S that hasn’t shipped yet but am now considering cancelling it and buying a Creality K1C. Anyone have thoughts on that as an alternative? It seems their multi material thing is coming out soon

  • sapetoku@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    4·
    19 days ago

    Just like you, I switched to LAN mode and I’m using Orca anyway. Gonna wait for it to blow over, it’s still a great printer for the price but next one will most likely be Prusa. I’m still happy with my A1M+AMS, it’s a great introduction to the hobby as far as I’m concerned. It’s disappointing to see Bambulab behaving that way, I hope they change course.

  • Pyotr@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    19 days ago

    Is X1Plus available for the P1S? If it is, that’s what you should switch to in LAN only mode. Can slice with anything and feed it over to the printer.

    It’s what I did with mine, even though it was in LAN only mode already. Switch over before they disable that option. Already working on selling it though so I can get a Prusa CORE.