I have an H2C and it is my first, and likely last, Bambu printer.

I was ok with the idea of a “just works” printer, but coming from building Vorons… Bambu has issues that I cannot fix and Bambu does not care or is just super slow to address. First layer is bad for ABS/ASA and every sliced file needs a z-offset to work. Bambu Slicer is not great. My filaments are constantly getting deleted or won’t sync. The list of open GitHub issues is massive.

This nonsense now with a Cease & Desist does not sit well with me. I regret my purchase.

That’s good to know. I have only seen the SV 08 mentioned, which I wasn’t sure of the value vs some of the 2.4 kits.

I see there is a Soval Zero as well, that looks more compelling.

None of the manufacturers have been great with open source, other than Prusa, to my knowledge.

You can get a heck of a lot more capable printer than an ender3 at that price point, even with multi material. If you want to keep waste down though you would need at least a dual head machine, or a toolhead switching machine which I think goes above your price range.

If you don’t need a big printer, and can pass on multilateral (unless you want to get a small INDX system for it later… for a bunch more money), at that price I’d spring for a Voron v0. Doesn’t get more open source than that.

I’m not saying roll over and accept fascism, and if it does come to civil war so be it, but civil war is not anything I am rushing to.

I get wanting to fight back. I’m mad as hell. I want nothing more than most politicians (on both sides) and billionaires to be stripped of all their wealth and power, and many of them to never see the outside of a cell. I just want to avoid being a statistic, or living with the memories of dead loved ones and bombed out neighborhoods.

Huh… I bought from https://baofengtech.com/ not that long ago and didn’t have pandering boxes… they are located in South Dakota so I guess I can’t say I am super surprised, just disappointed.

It doesn’t sync between services, but last.fm can be your tracking source and connects to both Spotify (when I had it… assuming still true) and Tidal (ways to track Bandcamp and other streaming too).

I have to wait for the full calendar year to pass in last.fm, but I get more interesting stats than what I remember from wrapped.

Hope the investigation is able to uncover what happened so other facilities (and this one, assuming it is restored) can prevent another event like this.

That said… what are the chances there were already sufficient preventative measures available and they were misapplied or simply not done?

Not a diagnosis, but sounds like depression.

Perhaps counter intuitively, exercise (get that heart rate up and sweat exercise) has always been the most effective for me. Managed my depression for ~25 years that way, such that I only have occasional (temporary) bouts of ennui.

I’d keep up with the touching grass too.