They offer printers with the same level of technology and the company is very pro-consumer. The slicer that Bambu Labs ships was forked from the open source slicer developed by Prusa.
This. For some reason there are people out there are still hell-bend on telling everyone Prusa would be “behind the curve” or “overpriced”. Ignore that nonsense. They’re pricey, but they’re also quality and even more relevant right now the printer will be truly yours. Their services like Printables just work, meanwhile the first thing Makerworld slaps into your face is either begging to make an account or forcing you to just to download something.
Sorry if I’m the bearer of bad news, but this is somehow not the thing Bambu is doing that is their biggest issue with consumer trust right now.
There are probably plenty of posts here on Lemmy about the issues with the AGPL, potential violations, and sending sketchy legal threats to hobbyists trying to let people use their printers without going through Bambu servers; it is likely worth looking around for the latest on that debacle
Dang that was the first 3d printer company that had me intrigued… Hopefully this is making hay is a short lived field, but it’s not great publicity
Go with Prusa.
They offer printers with the same level of technology and the company is very pro-consumer. The slicer that Bambu Labs ships was forked from the open source slicer developed by Prusa.
This. For some reason there are people out there are still hell-bend on telling everyone Prusa would be “behind the curve” or “overpriced”. Ignore that nonsense. They’re pricey, but they’re also quality and even more relevant right now the printer will be truly yours. Their services like Printables just work, meanwhile the first thing Makerworld slaps into your face is either begging to make an account or forcing you to just to download something.
Sorry if I’m the bearer of bad news, but this is somehow not the thing Bambu is doing that is their biggest issue with consumer trust right now.
There are probably plenty of posts here on Lemmy about the issues with the AGPL, potential violations, and sending sketchy legal threats to hobbyists trying to let people use their printers without going through Bambu servers; it is likely worth looking around for the latest on that debacle
They’ve also threatened hobbyists trying to let use people use their printers explicitly with using Bambu servers!
You can read about these incidents here: https://consumerrights.wiki/w/Bambu_Lab