In America, influence means money. If you can’t donate to a politician, you don’t have influence. That’s just how America works. You can’t build influence without wealth. As someome who has been involved with them, protests and marches don’t really cause a stir here any more, people just don’t care and it doesn’t really influence anything. You can get influence through violence, but people aren’t ready for that conversation and the right already has a head start on that anyway.
I got a Qudi q1 pro and I’ve been really happy with it. I didn’t have to do any tuning or anything, just ran the the built-in bed leveling and input shaping and it ran great out of the box. I’ve had to do very minimal tuning to get amazing quality prints. I’m coming from an OG ender 3 though so my bar was pretty low.
Seconding Qidi, I’ve been very happy with my q1 pro. They also have chamber heaters which makes it much easier to print large ABS or nylon prints.
I’ve been very happy with my Qidi printer. I havr a q1 pro but it’s not compatible with their multi material system, although one of their other models is. It does have a chamber heater if you are interested in printing more exotic filaments. I haven’t gotten into it quite yet but apparently it prints large ABS and nylon prints very easily.
The duck duck go app tracker firewall thing their browser comes with stops trackers coming from Connect. It’s a bummer cuz I like the app but I’ve been using a web browser more and more to access lemmy.