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Tom Sanladerer pointed some disqualifying flaws at least. Not just praise. But still - as far as I’m considered - no Tux, no Bux. I’d rather buy an inferior or more expensive printer that I can thinker with for as long as I own it, rather than relying on faith to not get locked out of my own printer.
I did enjoy watching him drill a big hole in the back of the filter chamber and add another fan to actually draw the air though it. But yeah, at least Sanlanderer pointed out those poor to bad design choices in the machine.
My biggest disappointment was in seeing the XY gantry being all glued together making it irreparable. It’s a good thing I’m not in someone that would buy this printer anyway.
Yes, you make a good point. Even the hardware is locked-down. Not something I would buy at this point. Perhaps as my first printer, but then, it’s not cheap exactly.
I hate the age of “viral marketing”. Are we still pretending the YouTubers aren’t just marketing tools?
Some are genuine and trustworthy, but finding them is a needle in a haystack and Youtube will rarely lead you directly to them (because of course, it’s not in their interest to do so). Others are at least transparent when they’re being marketing tools. The ones that try to hide it and pretend to be “organic” when they’re shilling trash are the worst.
If you are genuine and trustworthy, you will never get a printer to review
Aurora tech is untrustworthy? What about my tech fun? Functional print Friday? There are definitely a handful of YouTubers I trust with a review of a 3d printing product, who have public review policies and take principled approaches. At least two of these are pillars of the community and it’s a huge boon to the company to even have a review from that reviewer, even if it isn’t glowing.
He’s OK, but he’s still in it to make money, not just for fun.
What about my tech fun?
Tech is fun.
Why isn’t it in YouTube’s best interest? They don’t care if the product gets praised or trashed, they aren’t selling it, you watch the video/ ads and they’re happy
Youtubers need content. That means advanced releases of new electronics. You can’t get that unless every ‘review’ is positive.
Fuck Unbox Therapy and Lewis Hilsenteger he started the enshitification of YouTube.
It costs money for them to attempt to sort between honest/upfront advertising and the scummy kind.
I misinterpreted your original comment saying that YouTube wouldn’t lead you directly to them to mean that it would stear you away from them (which would of course require them to do the sorting you’re talking about). Yeah they don’t really give a shit, just shovel whatever they think will get you to engage.
YT has black boxes at all major ISPs. These cache local content. They prioritize what gets shown based on what is cached. This is why YT changed drastically around 2017. It is why you do not see content from ultra niche and high quality sources at random or get into advanced education like happened in the past.
Its insane that companies can get away with basically not having an in house PR team anymore and dont even have to pay all the ad makers for them. Just give a free product and threaten to never allow them to get another if they say anything bad.
Boom instant commercials at the cost of basically nothing.
It’s not new, but the current hot trend is for companies to outsource their costs as much as possible but pretend they’re providing “creators” with a service. Gig economy jobs, social media jobs, Etsy stores, etc. all involve “employees” who can’t call themselves employees for the purposes of insurance or full time hours or salaries taking on the equipment and material costs and labor costs in hopes that the company will pay out more than they invest. It’s the new MLM Avon calling, Tupperware party, essential oils scam. It’s not to say that some people won’t beat the house some of the time and make a decent living, but the odds aren’t in your favor and the house is still making a bunch off of you even when you are being “successful.”
Payola lol
Some people are still pretending. I try not to watch too much “sponsored content” so they don’t work on me.
One of the last times I watched a sponsored video, I went and bought V Rising immediately after.
YouTube is nothing but infomercials.
It annoys me to no end just how prevalent Bambu is.
The problem is they make a really good printer at a really good price… But with them locking down their printers, I won’t be buying another.
They are really good machines for the price, and i will hold of the lock down update to the best of my ability. Next one ill probably build a voron or something that can print with high temperature.
I don’t like them either but I am strongly considering getting one because all the reports that it consistently works out of the box without any kind of mods as I need to just send prints to it and get a good print out without any fiddling about every time
These days this is true of many other brands as well. The early days of your printer showing up as a kit full of bits and requiring you to spend as much time wrenching on it as using it are gone, unless you deliberately go and seek something like that out.
Qidi, Anycubic, Prusa, Creatality, and probably tons of others I can’t think of off the top of my head also make machines that are unbox-and-use.
By the way, what is a good printer that needs little to no maintenance and can continuously print multiple parts for days (Self leveling, spaghetti sensing, etc.)?
The Qidi Q2 has built-in spaghetti detection (and print failure detection in general), auto leveling, bed mesh compensation, etc. It’s not a print farm machine, though, so how you’ll get your parts off the bed and into your finished bucket will require some outboard tools and elbow grease. If its mechanicals are anything like my prior X-Max 3 from them I don’t predict it will require any adjustment, maintenance, or parts replacement for many hundreds/thousands of hours of runtime. I guess eventually you’ll need a nozzle at minimum, and you might want to lubricate the linear guides on the gantries every now and again.
It’s also compatible with their “Qidi box” filament changer doohickey if that sort of thing is important to you.
Gotcha, maybe an ender 3 v2 was not the right printer for me then.
i heard people have had good luck with them. i, however, had terrible luck with a p1s. mine had a factory defect and in troubleshooting and replacing parts i came to find that the design and build quality wasn’t that good. i wouldn’t buy another one because of the experience i had working on it. and on top of that customer support was inconsistent, i had to frequently repeat myself because they wouldn’t read back in our correspondence, they contradicted themselves and it took over a year for them to honour the warranty. sold that pos and replaced it with a prusa 😎
Looks like the embargo just lifted
I’m not sure what you’re getting at?
Company has a launch time for new products. YouTubers make videos about products, where they’re free to criticise those products. They have sponsors from different companies to support that video.
Are you claiming it sinister because they’re given a time when the product can be show so it’s fair to all creators?
More often than not, they are signing an agreement to not say anything negative in order to get the sponsorship.
I just watched one of these four videos (top left) and they were happy to point out the positives and negatives of the printer.
Am I to believe I was incredibly lucky choosing that one?
It was a general statement about youtube sponsorships.
I am not privy to Bambu Labs clauses. In fact, I have never heard of this company.
Ok. Perhaps don’t make statements that are not known to be true then.
How many sponsorships have you gotten?
Unless it is sponsored by an completely different company
