I kind of agree with what you're saying on creality, but if you look at their core xy machines compared to other manufacturers of a similar price point, it's just not worth it (K1).

To your point about larger size, Qidi XMAX3 is where it's at. It's rock solid and customer support is amazing. They've sent me free parts due to clogs and helped diagnose issues on the printer (this is what Creality lacks, support). It runs on Klipper and is easily modified, and it's fully enclosed with a heater.

I also think a "beginner" machine has shifted. Most people want to print, not maintain. And now we have plenty of machines that need little maintenance.

Creality machines do excel at tinkering, swapping parts, and doing fun mods. But you need to know that's what you want when going in. Even then for a beginner I'd say get something rock solid for your first printer, and get a tinkering machine for your second.

I agree with everything you're saying about filament. The only thing to use CF with is Nylon if you need it to be a little more rigid, but it will eat your nozzle.

ASA and ABS won't only smell, it will poison you. Do not hang out if you can smell it.

As per Amazon and their return policy, totally true. If you're not buying there make sure they have a solid customer support, like Qidi and Bambu. Creality wouldn't take a return for the world.

Bambu has community firmware.

I don't think so. It looks like it lacks ABL, and the time savings from a core XY with ABL or auto first layer are MASSIVE. Also your print quality increases exponentially.

Take a look at the FlashForge 5M if you want a budget auto first layer printer, or the Qidi line for a slightly more robust printer (but needs more manual intervention).

And if you'd like to focus on printing and not tinkering forever, get a Bambu. Any of them.

Avoid creality.

And if it doesn't work you'll never see it.

He did zero marketing.

Fuck these guys. If we live in a car society we need to be able to repair cars.

What car you clickbait bastard?

Cars are a major factor in micro plastic pollution. Tires and brakes.

No one ever talks about bitrate. The bitrate on a blue ray is amazing. You can see the grain of the film, it's as close as you're going to get to a film print (outside of a ripped Blu-ray).

Streaming is garbage. 4K streaming is a lie. Not only are we not equipped (in the USA) with high enough bandwidth, but high bandwidth costs cloud based companies money. So there's an incentive to make the product worse.

The media distribution paradigm we've fallen into is the worse.

How does it compete with chat gpt? It is chat gpt.

I've tried everything. If you like a modern UI and simplicity, you want immich. The lead dev designs the app specifically so his wife is happy using it, and it shows.

The article was satire fyi.