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[–] MonkeMischief@lemmy.today 28 points 13 hours ago (2 children)

I'm trying SO hard not to be smug, but I sense a sort of vindication from staying FAR away from these (admittedly initially impressive) machines when I heard how locked down, cloud-connected, and appliance-like they were.

"Somehow 'I told you so'. . . doesn't quite cut it."

–Will Smith as Detective Spooner, "i-Robot"

[–] Auli@lemmy.ca 9 points 11 hours ago

Well feel smug i have had two and been the best printers I have ever owned. Well I purchase another probably not the way things are going but no regrets and keeping it till it stops working.

[–] YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today 4 points 12 hours ago

I really wanted a p1s after my first ender 3 woes, thank goodness I was too broke att!