Quik SMS is a fork and continuation of QKSMS

Good points. I’ll definitely ponder them and see if maybe I don’t want to network it

It will be my first printer. I’m learning FreeCAD now in preparation. Open Source is important to me as I don’t like software spying on me so I’d go through this process. In the future if I end up finding that 3D printing is something I wish to pursue more I think I’d step right into a Voron.

That is good advice. Thank you very much. I saw Teaching Tech has a video specifically about what printers he uses day to day. I had heard that about Prusa unfortunately. It sucks to see a company that pioneered a space change it’s values.

She certainly is matter of fact, almost to the point of boring haha. I appreciate these types of reviews as everything looks to be on an even playing field. She was sponsored by Sovol on her Sovol review which makes me wonder if anything was fluffed up to sound better

I know this is for the SV08, not the 06 that I originally mentioned but there is a way to load mainline Klipper. I believe this would make the whole printer totally opensource unless you know of some other proprietary part I’m not thinking of.

I really like Teaching Tech. He seems to do things out of his own interest and to spread knowledge. I also saw he has a policy on his website of how he conducts reviews. Thanks

Is there a way to figure out if a product is shipped 100% open source? Maybe a website that keeps track of how open/closed each company is? Otherwise do you know of a way to reflash the system with an open source project? Something like a new OS from github? I’ve found in any hobby there tends to be a brand that has gotten lots of mod support from the community

Gotcha. Thank you

Sauron is certainly not a name that provides comfort. Sounds more like Skynet 2.0.

Why is dust not a problem? Heads up, I don’t know much about printing

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K82zbXf-Ebg&t=47

But we beat big pharma…

Make it work on Linux please

I tried the mail in form and it was ignored

It’s annoying to upgrade between whole number android versions.

Twitter/X has never been censorship free

I did. Not nearly enough to manage my own router unfortunately

Following a guide on how to make something is different than understanding what you’re doing. By all means go for it. I think if you want to enjoy self hosting, skip to that part and come back to creating a router in the future.

Trying to create a router yourself is complicated. I knew nothing about it and installed OpenWRT onto a Netgear router and was unprepared. I ended up effectively taking a YouTube crash course trying to understand so many new networking terms and more. I got it working but any small tweaks could cause issues as I didn’t fully understand what I was doing. I bought a GL.iNet Flint 2 and have been super happy with it. Save yourself a headache, get a good router like that and start having fun running things on a RPi.