Honestly I don't regret going with Bambu. Yes they suck in a way I get it. However the time and money I spent into my ender to keep it barely alive is all wasted compared to these machines that just run perfectly out of the package.

Sure prusa is fine too, and other brands might are getting there too. But if you want to print as a tool I would recommend to just use the tool nearly everyone is agreeing on.

I didn't regret it once, and have 3 printers at this point (2 of which free thanks to Bambu points)

Also I am still amazed that my $150 A1 mini is basically just as good as the X2D or P2S.

I was offered to return it or try to fix it myself. In the end the fix was even easier than initially thought and it's working great since. No idea if that's because I am in the EU market and not US. They did take their time to respond but otherwise service was ok.

Same here. When I needed them they were on the ball. Though I haven't had a difficult or complex problem yet.

Soon enough it will be

I get why. But that still seems wasteful

But would it be more wasteful than shipping a parcel with broken equipment?

If the old one could still be used, they shouldn’t send a new one anyway.

Well, if it can still be repaired but the producer doesn't want to bother and just sends a new fan, that's fine. That doesn't mean a repairable product should be destroyed and sent to a landfill just because it makes Noctua's logistics easier.

The point is, if the owner thinks it can be repaired, they shouldn’t call for a replacement in the first place. And indeed they wouldn’t get one, because they wouldn’t break the blade. So it’s completely under control of the owner.

Sure but the owner could've technically been left with a spare part in this case

Though it's not that likely that users will try to replace the blades on a fan.

Anecdotally, when my Xtrfy MZ1 mouse cable started shorting 5V to ground, they required a similar process (cutting the cable) before sending a replacement.

This was their response when I asked why: > Yes this policy was put in place because there was multiple instances of people reselling their faulty products after receiving a replacement.

> The secondhand buyers then reached out to us, let down to have received a broken product.

I'd imagine it's a similar reason for Noctua.

It’s a chilling effect on folks that buy one noctua fan and want to get another free one by claiming the first one is broken.

Both of which are rather disappointing and wouldn't really stand out more than any other nice colour

Same here. Very little amounts already give me a weird tummy feel. A normal amount (ex. Half a can) gets my tummy turned around for a few hours.

This. Why would I accept anything else than that?

Awesome! Where can I sign?

It’s awesome to decide what your children, once they are adults, can’t do? Seems borderline psychopathic. Kinda sums up democracy in current times though.

> It’s awesome to decide what your children, once they are adults, can’t do?

You do realize that this is what basically every single law in existence does, right?

That my kids, and likely yours, once they're adults, can't drive under the influence, rob a bank, impersonate a cop, lie under oath, exercise medecine without a licence, walk downtown naked, jaywalk, evade taxes, criticize the King?

I've seen confusion about this before with people that I know.

You tell them it's against the law to drink, and they'll point out that it's restrictive and controlling. You tell them it's against the law to commit tax fraud, and they'll have no objection.

Why? I think, at least with the people that I know, it's related to what they want to be able to do. They want to be able to drink alcohol, so it feels controlling to tell them they can't. They aren't interested in committing tax fraud, so they're not bothered by that being restricted.

I think it's also because a lot of people act like laws are passed down by god, immutable.

Reminder that slavery was legal.

If you check it the other way around, you'll get consistency. Almost everyone that is against taxation is also against restrictions on consuming drink.

If you ask an addict then yeah you'll get some gibberish that enables them whether it fits into a logical paradigm or not.

The distinction here is, this law is a do as I say not as I do. Different laws for different dob ( dob not age )

Well to be fair, it's not that they can't, it's that society is telling them there will be repercussions if they're caught. You can still technically do whatever you want.

Laws are threats made by the dominant socioeconomic-ethnic group in a given nation. It’s just the promise of violence that’s enacted and the police are basically an occupying army.

you can but they can't. just plain hypocrisy.

I don't think this law is getting voted into existence by smokers, though.

Why would someone be pro-tobacco without a financial motive? What’s your angle on pushing this crap?

People have been using tobacco for many thousands of years. if they want to use it knowing full well the consequences, they should be able to. Unless we also ban things like skydiving, rock climbing, and fast cars and motorcycles, it makes no sense to me.

Why isn't prohibiting something known to cause harm a good thing? Plus, smoking doesn't just harm the individual doing it, its harm extends to those in the immediate (and sometimes not so immediate) vicinity, as well as the environment. There is literally zero good to gain from it.

If future generations want to smoke, they can change the law as easily as yours passed it.

Running government budgets further and further into deficit, believing that, as a result, your children will, some day, be in a stronger financial position to repay the resulting debt that, until that day, continues to grow at an ever-increasing rate?

That seems psychopathic.

That's not how politics works, and you probably know it. "Easily passing laws" is not a matter of voting demographics but of political power, and any thinking person knows political power usually does not belong to younger voters.

Given the population pyramid, it would be impossible for them to change the law until they are well into old age.

You both have good points.

Depends on where you are. In Thailand and SEA generally you can just walk around and ask for short term rentals and get highly different prices offered compared to booking. In Europe it's more complicated I guess.

I went from side project to business so often that I don't make any difference there anymore. However 3D printing is doomed to stay a hobby for me at this point in time with zero revenue (other than free maker points and therefore new printers, woohoo)

Thing is as many pointed out it's either to expensive compared to molding, simply the wrong choice of material or to labor intensive to actually turn a profit.