Literally the best thing that people worldwide can do, is throw their smartphones in the garbage can. Go back to a flip phone, if you must. The timeline sucks, the world sucks, and the common denominator in what’s causing everything to spiral, is what’s in your pocket. Seriously.

Anycubics support has always been trash. There’s whole groups about it. I had a little bedslinger from them, it was sort of ok for what it was, but it was wildly inconsistent day to day, and they pretty much drop any sort of updating or support for their products day 2 after release. I spent a lot of time dialling that thing in, but you’d get something tightened up and dialed up, and then three other issues would rear their head. It was like playing wack a mole. Their idea of support is you have to kiss up to this specific person on their Facebook groups and hope they play along and respond back to you, because they don’t often answer emails and when they do it’s basically just a feedback loop. Then it’s just back and forth. I ain’t got the patience for that stuff anymore.

I only want the higher end stuff now.

I think toolchanging is where it’s going to be too. Just want to see what’s out there in a few years after some development. I’m just sticking with AMS right now, because it’s largely foolproof. But that Snapmaker stuff is definitely pretty impressive. Cant wait to see where that goes

It depends on what you want out of the hobby honestly. 30 years later, I just want a printer that works, without fuss. I’ve done the customizations, I’ve done the firmware flashes and attached third party controllers. But I’m a huge fan of my Bambu P2S, because it just works. In over 300 hours I’ve only had 2 failed prints. I haven’t done one iota of really anything to it. Plugged it in, and the things just been chugging away. Lots of parts availability, locally and online (which is huge). Lots of support available locally too.

My previous printer, an Anycubic coincidentally, used to take like 4 or 5 false starts before you could finally get a good first layer.

I get the hate, I get that people want customization and what not. But some people just want shit that works. That’s why I look at Bambu as the McDonalds of 3d printing. It ain’t that healthy for you, it’s a scourge on the planet, but it also tastes kinda good and it’s a guilty pleasure from time to time, right?

Yes theres Prusa and all sorts of other printers that are good too, don’t take this the wrong way. Run your own journey for sure. But I’m running mine too.

I remember when I was a teenager and those things were all the rage (mid 90s). I wanted one just because they were alternative.

Fast forward a whole bunch of years and I’m pilfering the supply closet at work, and happen to stumble upon a slightly dusty, but functional and genuine OG Microsoft split keyboard. So of course I just had to.

Let’s just say that keyboard is back collecting dust in that exact same spot. The ergos of it were okish, like your hand naturally rests like that. But even just that little difference of layout messed my muscle memory up way too much. And you are right, hitting some of the function keys was too alien.