I played countless hours in co-op with my brother. Very fun game!

Homelab Veteran ⚡

• Fleet: 2–3 devices · 21–50 TB
• Motivation: Privacy & data ownership, Fun / the hobby itself, Independence from Big Tech & subscriptions
• My MVPs: Jellyfin, Caddy, Pi-hole, Syncthing, Rsync

Where I live, gas is 2.28€/L, that’s about $11.80/gallon, still people rather drive their car to work every day instead of riding the 2000€ eBike collecting dust in their garage, and they are 5km (3.1mi) away from work. I would argue has price is not expensive enough for them.

On the other hand, the student we have on part time, rides the train 2 hours to come, because it’s too expensive for him to tank up his motorcycle.

Funhole is mysterious and important.

I have MK3 so PrusaLink is running on a pi already, via the onboard UART. I tried Octoprint with this setup very long ago and I had issues. The pi would be too slow to send the commands to the printer and would end up failing the prints sometimes. I haven’t revisited Octoprint since.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FAMAS

For context, few years ago there was a big ecological protest at a water storage construction site, the police was there in mass and escalated the situation very aggressively. Many protesters got seriously injured and rescue was blocked by police to access the site. Later “investigation” declared the police force didn’t do anything wrong. Only recently independent journalists managed to leak the bodycam recordings with audio where you can hear the police gleefully shooting the protesters straight with flashall and teargas grenade launchers and expressing the wish to kill the protestors and wish they had Famas to “teach them”.

Yeah no. Not a good idea to give more funding to the police while there is documented evidence these guys want to shoot protesters with famas to kill them.

Oh, that’s very cool, I didn’t know !

Prusa Connect (online cloud) is totally optional. You can use Prusa Link locally to send the score to the printer wirelessly from the slicer. Prusa Link is a bit barebone but it does the job.

Prusa printers are totally usable offline. With Prusa Link you can benefit from some simple comfort features while remaining totally inside your local network. You can block Internet access to the printer from your router and Prusa Link will still work totally fine in you local network.

I have to check my pihole logs to confirm for sure there isn’t any telemetry by default.

Prusa is very committed to privacy, Open-source and security. They even sell “critical infrastructure” variant of some of their printers with WiFi circuit removed: https://www.prusa3d.com/product/original-prusa-xl-2-tool-head-assembled-critical-infrastructure-edition/

It was revealed that LG TVs record and store conversation data and screen data until they are able to phone home, including scanning surrounding WiFi connections and connect to free hotspots automatically.

Mostly targeting advertising. The original source is the GamerNexus video. They show in great details the kind of information they capture and give potential usage for it. For instance they can detect thermostats, air conditioning units and air purifier that may be on the network, products that LG also sells. They give another example: if they see you have an iPhone 13, they may send you ads for the new iPhone 17.

Literally me every day at 14:00

My LG TV is not getting network privileges, ever. I wonder if there is a way to turn off the WiFi radio altogether.

I’ve upgraded my MK3 to S and then S+ and my MMU2 to S and then 3. Starting from the launch model of the MK3 and ending with MK3S+ and MMU3 costed me significantly less than buying a new printer. Yes, the upgrade kits across models are not worth it (MK3 to MK4 or MK4 to Core one), but what do you expect? At least they offer the option, and details documentation, you can even source all the parts by yourself.

Amazing skill !

Just came to say this one really has the “don’t talk to me until I had my coffee” vibe. I don’t have advice for you, sorry.

Got my printer back in 2018, at the time the Prusa i3 MK3 was amongst the best printer you could get for the money, best in class performance and reliability, while having totally Open-source mechanical, electronics and firmware. I also got the material changer MMU2.

People keep buying Prusa because they are committed to keep Open-source and community contributions alive. Very model gets upgrades down the line, coming in parts from community feedback and contributions.

When the MK3S upgrade came out, they shipped it to me at a minimal cost. When the MMU2S upgrade came, they did too. Just this month, I have upgraded to MK3S+ and MMU3, printing the parts and sourcing the Hardware by myself. Prusa maintains very good documentation and assembly guides, to make the process as easy as possible.

8 years ago I paid for a good printer. Today it’s still relevant and has been super reliable the whole time (MMU2, not so much, I am still testing the MMU3).