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  • The most trustworthy reviews are always those where the reviewers just bought the products.

    So much this. One reason why there are so super few honest Bambu Lab reviews out there, they understood how to do PR through influencers and used their VC money to send thousands of devices everywhere for basically free (and keep doing so) to build an overly positive lifestyle image. Those few who do actual deep dives and get cut off from new free devices simply drown in the masses. Meanwhile their printers melt themselves and the A1 Mini apparently likes to catch fire.

    Anycubic is a whole different beast, they’ve known to basically steal stuff for many years (like when they took Prusa’s first-gen MMU design and successfully patented a slightly different design). Shit like this is one of the reasons Prusa is meddling with new licenses in the first place.

    Creality now went IPO and is blasting every corner of their products with AI. Elegoo also already broke licenses to close off their devices.

    Pretty sure vendors like Snapmaker, Sovol or QIDI also have done a sufficient amount of shit.

    Capitalism will always be a shitshow like this, and it’s annoying. Ethical or even lawful behaviour shouldn’t be something you have to be able to afford, it should be the fucking default because it’s made free and beneficial to everyone.









  • Where do I even start…

    • The verification process constantly breaks
    • Sessions get randomly unverified
    • Pictures aren’t being send occasionally
    • Their client is a UI/UX catastrophe
    • Room Events are incompatible (esp. w/ Element X)
    • The “experimental” voice rooms are total trash, settings are not working (e.g. auto-gain can’t be disabled)
    • The Calls via Jitsi somehow have a worse UX than Skype had in its worst days
    • The verification via emojis uses different emoji styles, missing the point completely
    • Due to the session mess “Can’t decrypt message” will be your best friend
    • Even if you got a verified session it sometimes fails to decrypt a message
    • The federation is SLOW. As in “wait many many minutes” slow.
    • The whole Spaces-with-detached-rooms concept is a mess
    • There’re no proper moderation tools
    • There isn’t even a god damn admin panel! For the longest time you had to MANUALLY CURL THE API. Even today you have to mess with third-party admin panels that usually don’t have all options exposed
    • Encryption is nice, but Matrix leaking tons of metadata isn’t.
    • They effectively stopped developing the Element client in favour of Element X, which isn’t available in desktop. And also loves to break during verification.
    • Third-party clients sometimes work better, but certainly don’t expect anything but text chats with pictures there.

    I really tried to like it, I even attempted to move a community over, attempted to self-host, all the jazz. It’s a steaming mess for years now with no end in sight, and literally everyone who tried it eventually left disenchanted. Don’t even bother trying it.