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I'm sorry you're sick of having to defend your baseless claims.

If you don't know about Prusaslicer, you download it, and in some cases click Next a few times to install it. You then select whatever printer(s) you have from a set of pre-populated profiles that include non-Prusa models, btw. You now have a highly tuned profile for your Prusa printer because -- and I can't stress this enough -- Prusa's QC... well exists! which means it's already better than the competition. Because they have QC, they're able to predict very well how the machine is going to behave and are able to release profiles that work very well for everyone.

Also, if you don't know about Prusaslicer -- it's the origin of Bamboo's slicer. They get to ride along for free while you chant "Innovation!"

Also, if you don't know about Prusaslicer, why do you feel so comfortable commenting on what Prusa has and hasn't done? Like when you say things like "comes with an ecosystem that Creality has invested in to a much greater extent than Prusa."

You don't what you're talking about.

> But that's the point: this product design locks it into the enthusiast market, and most consumers don't want to deal with that overhead.

What product design? Cura? Why are we talking about Cura again? Oh yea, you brought it up because you used it one time. Seriously though, what product design are you talking about?

I love it when people speak for "most consumers."

But the author isn't saying (only) "Prusa is losing the ultra-beginner market." That's moving the goal posts. The author is making sweeping claims beyond just that market, right?

When you're in the market for a new TV or phone or whatever, do you buy the absolute cheapest one you can find and then decry the other players in the market because their stuff is clearly low value because the ICO is higher? Maybe you do, that's your choice of course, but there are plenty of people who buy, for example, Apple because they see beyond the ICO.

Again I have to ask if you've ever used a Prusa, no really this time?

Prusa users use Prusaslicer, not Cura. Printables.com often hosts gcode files that require no slicing at all by end users. These points completely aside -- do you think 3d printer novices are going to last long without learning a slicer? Is that really your assertion?

Also, is installing Cura a "nightmare" ? So much explosive language!

> The thing is, there really isn't much of a difference between an Ender 3 and a Mk4 that a typical consumer (that is, not an enthusiast) would understand as justifying the bigger price tag.

I'm not sure what makes you feel so comfortable deciding that for everyone? Having vastly better components that are much less likely to fail is something I think anyone would find valuable. If you give an absolute beginner an MK4 and an Ender 3, they're going to use the MK4 every time. It's vastly less effort to get started and the QC of one vs the other isn't even a competition.

> The Mk4 price completely eliminates Prusa from the entry- to mid-level market which is a big lost opportunity when new enthusiasts are learning on other brands

I mean, this is the trick of your faulty logic, right? Prusa makes flex-plates popular and the Chinese printers all jump on board. Prusa makes auto-leveling popular and the Chinese companies (eventually... why aren't you talking about how long it took them to do this?) jump on board. And on and on it goes. And it's not just Prusa, it's the whole 3d community that's been looted by these Chinese companies. They're happy to steal from Voron and really anyone and then you act like it's innovation and decry Prusa for not innovating recently enough for you and praise the looters for selling you something cheaper because it's made by slaves.

You seem great at spotting these lost opportunities, but you act like just because a company isn't doing the things you want, they're dying. It's poorly conceived at best and astro turfing/stanning at worst.

> and by the time they want to upgrade to a Mk4 price-point, they have much, much better options than Prusa

You could really help your position by backing up these claims. What makes them "much, much better" ? Initial cost of ownership and what else? Cloud slicing is not something I would want -- ever, so please don't list that as some objective "better."

> Prusa is not the right choice at any price point anymore and has little to no market relevance left, except maybe among a certain niche of enthusiasts.

And yet, they can't make printers fast enough.

The initial cost of ownership is the only thing that matters?

The trouble is, the author doesn't at any point discuss what makes the products better. They just claim they are as if initial cost is the only factor.

The author starts out discussing licenses and by the fourth paragraph has jumped to the standard "I've never used a prusa, but here's why they suck" talking points and then at the end of the article even points out that the license talk has nothing to do with their assertions.

> Prusa responded to this certainty by not diversifying their business model whatsoever. There has only ever been one Prusa product: their latest 3D printer model.

https://blog.prusa3d.com/prusa-pro-our-industrial-product-li... https://blog.prusa3d.com/printables-store_87810/ https://blog.prusa3d.com/printables-clubs-are-live-you-can-n... https://blog.prusa3d.com/trilabs-industrial-3d-printers-one-...

These are just the first few pages of their blog, I could go on.

> Or, you can buy an Ender 3 off Amazon right now for $180 and you’ll get better than half of the value of an Mk4 at an 85% discount.

It's difficult to assume that the author is communicating in good faith when one reads something as obviously wrong as this. If you can't spot the difference between a Ender 3 and an MK4, you shouldn't be writing about 3d printers.

> Prusa’s naive strategy is causing their position to fall like a rock.

Are Prusa's financials available somewhere that I'm not aware of? They seem to be doing fine considering they can't make printers fast enough to keep up with demand.

I have to write awful primitively-obsessed Python at work. I LOVE Ruby.

Cross platform doesn't mean all platforms.

Why not just make ten brighter and then be on nine?

BuT ThEy'Re ThE NeW MiCroSoFt!!

I would guess security passes that they should be doing anyway. If they open source and there are enough sec issues it might kill good will.

I recently ended my YouTube premium sub because they started...... showing ads.

Maybe not with the bus factor.

But... But.... They're the New Microsoft!!! /s

There's some FOSS called TeslaMate that piggy backs on credentials you can steal from your Tesla app. It monitors and records all manner of statistics for whatever purpose you choose. It can also integrate with Home Assistant and all of the wonderful things it can do. The Tesla app shows a tiny amount of information in comparison and none of it is actionable by automations I write.

I appreciate your explanation, but I'll confess that I still don't get it. I assume I'm just not understanding; please don't take offense.

The state of my splits etc are already distinct from the terminal emulator as is/are the session(s) without CC. I can restart my terminal emulator or add new sessions at will without needing any special support from the terminal.

I read the Control Mode section of the man page, but the utility didn't leap off the page. Would you share what's cool about this mode?

You keep saying that they're different, but to my old eyes you're just buying their marketing.

They still have horrible security. They are still product dumping. They're still ignoring user preferences and forcing their agenda (eg: Edge) They're worse than ever about user privacy.

I could go on. I don't like Google either, but your corporate loyalty is silly. Both can be and are terrible.

Out of curiosity, why run NTP from cron vs ntpd or chrony?

I can only assume the people who find it to be the gold standard have never used any other window manager and/or have very low requirements/APM.

Responses like yours are always so strange to me. Perhaps I misunderstood your response but it feels very much like a defense of the status quo. As if the PC was expecting too much to get support for software they paid for and that their raising of the issue in the comment was unwarranted.

How do things ever get better if everyone just accepts everything that ever happens without complaint?

I looked into Kagi a week or so ago from a different HN link and was turned off by the Apple-focus. I've had bad experiences in the past with early adopting and regretting it because I don't use Apple products. I understand they plan to support non Apple stuff but it's never clear if that support will be first-class and it often isn't. Considering that it's a Chromium wrapper, it seems odd that they took this route.

It's also not clear if there are device/location limits for an account. I use a lot of devices and travel quite a bit.

I guess you've never used SignalFX?

The justifications I've seen go along the lines of "I can't go elsewhere because my followers are here." .... But if you left, they'd likely follow.

It's like a microcosm of capitalism. The users don't realize they hold all of the power, I guess.

Except it's completely not (neither are.)

BMI can't distinguish between fat and muscle which is enough to disqualify it from any serious consideration.

IQ is similarly simplistic and attempts to measure something for which we don't even have an agreed-upon definition.

These sites that do a DOM-up and cover up the content just make me leave immediately.

bash: !\n: event not found bash: syntax error near unexpected token `fi' bash: syntax error near unexpected token `}' bash: update_status_line: command not found $ printf "!%s!\n" $exit^C bash: update_status_line: command not found $ echo $BASH_VERSION 5.2.15(1)-release

Bored? How about learning about mobile-friendly CSS?

What's wrong with ssh-agent?