alt Hacker NewsI’ve been running mine offline for years, I don’t know why other people haven’t been. They’re the only competent and reliable printer that isn’t a project car in itself, but they’re obviously not completely trustworthy. Easily fixed with an air gap, updates work just great from a USB drive.
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I tried it but switched back to the online mode because being able to remotely check in via the app is very useful to check the print hasn't failed.
> They’re the only competent and reliable printer that isn’t a project car in itself
Prusa.
idk, my 10 year old makerbot 2 has been pretty reliable, ever since Prusa slicer came out and I tuned a profile for it maybe 6 years ago it's been spitting out quick dimensionally accurate prints. i use it all the time, probably go through a spool every month or two and all i've had to replace is the cooling fan for the extruder once
i'm mostly printing small mechanical parts and i can't say i have any complaints, i assume a modern prusa would be much better, surely there are other FDM printers that are good?
They are an adversarial player in the market, actively trying to lock users into an ecosystem that is incompatible with other printers.
Like Adobe's 'creative' software and Onshape, they are working as hard as possible to make YOU pay more to have less.