The best laser printer is a Brother laser printer from 10+ years ago before the cartridge subscription bullshit.

I landed one for $5 on Craiglist and have it connected through a CUPS server so I still have the modern ability to print from any device on the network.

Even if you are creating a display piece and not something functional, it’s something you are making for yourself, and a limited number of them. You aren’t mass producing Funko Pops of which millions will end up in a land fill.

What each individual defines as garbage is up to them. I’m certain there are very very few people who are literally printing garbage on purpose with their 3D printers.

And again the scale of waste is like 2 trillion to 1 comparing corporations to independent hobbyists 3D printing parts.

Being able to 3D print also allows one to repair things that otherwise would just have to be tossed in a landfill because some critical plastic piece broke.

And it allows users to create their own one-off objects that they need rather than a corporation creating an immense surplus of parts the majority of which will never reach consumer hands and will end up in a landfill.

Taking offense at people who 3D print for being bad for the environment is just concern trolling at this point.

The environmental impact of 3D printing is minimal compared to the industrial levels of waste making by corporations.

The Affinity Suite is so worth it. Pay a single time and get all the apps on all major OSes instead of the stupid subscription bullshit Adobe tries to lock you into.

One difference is machine size. A bed slinger needs enough room to sling the bed around. I have a Snapmaker Artisan and its humongous because of this.

Proton shouldn’t be recommended. CEO is a Trump supporter.

He’s a Trump supporter.

The slicer software is the same as Prusa/Orca Slicer. (It’s a fork of Prusa and Orca is a fork of Bambu slicer) You can use either and get all the same slicer features for any 3D printer. In short, don’t choose a 3D printer for it’s bundled slicer since almost any slicer can be used for almost any 3D printer.

Smart man. This is how we fight being replaced by AI.

Even bigger question: why would you register on 4chan? Isn’t the whole point anonymity?

But why? If everything works on Windows why install a second OS? Just to avoid the AI? When you have to go back because something ultimately doesn’t work on Linux, you’re still going to be exposed to the filthy AI.

That’s fine but people here are trying to convince everyone that Linux is a 1 for 1 replacement of Windows or MacOS and as someone who has a lot of experience with Linux and uses it (and enjoys using it) for work/coding/development, that’s simply a lie.

Fuck off Russian shill.

Why are you dishwashing it?

I might have to try PieFed. I think this might inspire me to.

I almost left due to the toxicity of the tankie triad but luckily I learned the block features work well.

I think it’s also a lack of tech understanding. I know how easy it is to fork a repo so I get how great the fediverse is with all the services being FOSS and anyone can create an instance. This major benefit makes no sense to someone who doesn’t even know what a git repo is or the difference between free (but you are the product being sold) and FOSS.

We aren’t sure. It’s still a billionaire owned social media. For some reason people are too afraid of the freedom actual decentralized social media gives them and they want a billionaire behind the scenes running everything and coralling them to the correct opinions.

They also act like setting up Octoprint for timelapse is overly hard. It’s really not.