100% - this goes with VPNs, why would I buy that is posted everywhere, such a giant target for an attack.

I'll do my own research and come to a conclusion on how i spend my money.

At the very least when the brand is sponsoring Youtubers to the degree Bambu did. It‘s a huge red flag.

In this case though, I don't think it's "shitty and overpriced" given the pricepoint. Of course that's subjective, I'm speaking more from an average person's viewpoint. I know people who started with the A1 and it was fine. The company is just garbage.

I have an A1 mini. I had no idea it was being pushed by influencers.

I genuinely thought it was the "Brother laser" of 3D printing.

I'm pretty excited about blowing all my money on INDX soon :-)

Printed a fidget gun for a guest's kid with the heating block replacement a just bought. It feels great to print again 😎

You shouldn't give a fuck of your choice of 3D printer's manufacturer is controversial.

HP and Dell suck a fat one, but I don't give it a moments thought when I'm printing out hollow Earth leaflets to hand out at the mall food court.

I love/hate my fucking Ender 3. I love it cause I got it for free and it's my first printer. But boy have I just wanted to take a hammer to it at times. Though, I can use any software I want, no internet connection, and it's been forcing me to actually understand how that dang printer works. And fuck, when I'm ready to go down that rabbit hole, I can mod it out. I can't beat that flexibility.

Get that bitch a direct drive upgrade and print a dual blower mount for it and it’ll never let you down again

You might want to try those total conversion projects. There are a few that take parts from one or two Ender 3 and turn the machine into a modern CoreXY machine.

Both of my Qidi machines have been plug in, load filament, and print. My current X-Max 3 also provided a rather polished out of the box experience with an on-screen guide and everything. I would much rather have a Qidi than any Bambu machine at this point.

I'm a little disappointed that they've apparently recently abandoned their homegrown fork of Prusa Slicer in favor of a home grown fork of Bambu's slicer, but here's hoping Bambu's current litigious fuckery will cause them to rethink that strategy. Still, their stuff is open source enough that there's nothing stopping me from using any other slicer with it if I felt like it. Or, indeed, any other firmware.

https://consumerrights.wiki/w/Bambu_Lab_A1_NTC_thermistor_fire_and_meltdown_hazard

both I think?

But it seems to only affect low voltage grid countries if I understand it correctly

Avoid

• BambuLab (the usual backstabbing of big corpos)
• Creality (recently went IPO and strongly pivoted towards AI)
• FlashForge (also apparently AI stuff)
• Anycubic (cheap shit)

Recommend

• Sovol (especially for tinkerers, but bad customer support)
• Snapmaker U1 (good price / performance)
• Prusa (The best with a backbone and EU-based, but pricy af because of it)
• Qidi Tech (Rather affordable, not too bad apparently)

These are my personal opinions and what I heard over the years.

Fuck, I have one from 2024 that's been sitting in a box until I had the time to get into 3d printing (like yours, it was a gift). Guess I need to buy a fire fighting ball thing for it when I finally get it set up.

Just be safe, alright? There should be info out there if it's an A1 about removing the dangerous part (seems to be optional). And make sure to take those devices offline via LAN-mode and blocking their internet access in the router.