I couldn't bring myself to pay the premium at the time, especially with the slow rollout of the MMU. But now with multiple printers in my fleet, I might be kicking myself shortly. We all knew some of this was a possibility, unfortunately.
Which prusa would you recommend for someone switching from a bambu P1S? Primary requirements are single-color PLA and PETG with a comparable ease of use, speed and print quality.
My recommendation would be Duplicacy [0]. Code is also on GitHub [1].
It has a paid GUI version, $20 for the first year and $5 for subsequent years with discounts for multiple machines [2]. At least once they've run a promotion for a very cheap lifetime license.
Use it just from the CLI is free.
My setup is pretty simple, Syncthing and Duplicacy (GUI version) run in a docker container on my home server. Everything gets sync'd to the server and then Duplicacy backs it up hourly to a Hetzner Storage Box and BackBlaze B2.
The deduplication is a huge data saver on the cloud storage especially for pictures or videos that may be on multiple computers and different syncthing folders.
I recently tried to cancel Backblaze and wanted to download some of the stuff I’d archived there. The download limits were a bit of a blocker. I re-upped for a year and decided I’ll deal with it over the coarse of a year but something to think about. I could upgrade to increase download limits but didn’t have the mental bandwidth (haha) to deal with it at the time.
The Dragonbox Pyra[0] I've mentioned on hacker news before is a piece of hardware that is just starting to ship it's preorders.
It's an interesting device that's of this form factor. It has an older OMAP5, but it's placed on a replaceable daughter board potentially giving it an upgrade path.
I couldn't find the details on their site, but do you know whether the 3.5mm audio jack is 3 or 4 pole? I've found that most KVMs have the 3 pole jack, meaning it just supports audio out, but I need 4-pole so my headset microphone works.
Maybe the majority of people who pre-ordered these brick sized devices will finally start to received them after they've been "shipping" for 9 months after already being more than a year late.
Thankfully there's more competent companies like Pine64 pushing alternative devices.
You do not seem to acknowledge the huge task they untertook. The internal Dogwood batch has already come to Purism [0], so the progress is made all the time.
That’s now clear to me that recommending people to buy the Librem 5, a 700$ phone that cannot pass a call after 3 years of development, isn’t a good idea. Do you think it’ll eventually be fixed?
I literally have made calls and received calls with a librem 5. I have no idea why this person could not. It wasn't anything special either. My only thought is if the reviewer had very out of date software and didn't bother to upgrade?
Why? This is a crappy review that doesn't do the device justice, and the PinePhone has nowhere near the level of support that Purism will offer. Neither should be considered "consumer ready", and it'll probably remain that way for at least a year.
[0] https://github.com/prusa3d