It’s both.
But companies like Meta profit from harm they do to the population and should be reigned in.
One of the biggest lie to keep the current system in place.
Private corporations parasite themselves into R&D paid for by the government and act like they invented the fire again.
The Internet is built on FOSS and got captured to be sold back to us.
Capitalism breeds innovation just like people leave their partner when they finally have enough to be abused.
Filter coffee is around 150mg caffeine per cup.
Espresso 80mg per shot.
Thst should get you through the math of caffeine intake.
It’s probably made in the same factory, but there is more QA in the chain (normally/I hope) and then the batteries have multiple middlemen taking a cut with IFixit adding their profit margin on top of every middlemen costs.
That’s like training a new model with every new junior dev.
100% accurate results!
The nice thing is that I can upgrade along the way, so even taking the formlab kit, I can slowly upgrade the parts if I want to.
I got gifted a Bambu P1S a few years ago, but customization is pretty limited.
I like the idea of the Voron and it’s upgradability but the initial time investment was really high for me.
Thanks for sharing your information. I am a tinkering person, so I don’t feel lost when doing projects like that, but since I am in Canada, sourcing parts was terrible when I looked a few years ago. The LDO kits seem pricy, but I will look for alternatives. But at least, the option’s there.
How long was building your voron? And how much did it cost you?
I would like to do it in the future, but right now time is a big constraint for me
You’ve been using Windows all your life. It will take time to be comfortable with Linux since it’s a different workflow, that’s normal.
Let’s not forget that mega corpos benefit heavily from government subsidized R&D in universities, insert themselves within the R&D and claim innovation as their own.
Tech is built on FOSS and private corporations act like they invented butter.