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If you want good prints and only care about the prints, get Bambu P1S. If you want to tinker with the machine and have a lot of free time on your hands then Prusa. although Prsusa starting to close up it's walls like Bambu.

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Unless you buy kit, you don't really have to tinker with prusa (I have MK4S), it just seems to work.

What? Prusa used to be the most open company out there. I can't believe they are going to enshittify their products now.

Anyway, I have a Bambu, and it is a nice printer, but it wants to phone home and it is difficult to use when you put it behind a firewall.

Prusa is getting tired of investing R&D and then having someone else copy that. Someone else without an R&D budget can make things cheaper because they don't have that budget.

They are most tired of investing in R&D in the open and then having some company do a patent in their country. The company then sues them for infringement.

That's sad. But how does that affect me as a potential customer?

You no longer get OSS offering.

Put the Bambu in LAN mode, it won't phone home, everything stays local.

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