It is so difficult tofind modern electronics without telemetry and ads. Smartphones, laptops, TVs, home routers, security cameras, cars, game consoles, e-readers, projectors, 3D printers, fitness trackers, speakers, and even some printers. Why can’t customers be free from this data collection and advertising? It’s not that we don’t care about it. There simply aren’t many alternatives, and the few that do exist are either more expensive or offer fewer features. Seriously, we need a list of products we can buy without worrying about telemetry or advertising.
The following list is updated at https://lemmy.ml/post/52706206. Please note that this list may contain errors.
- 3D printers: Prusa 3D Printer
- Anything else that doesn’t come with ads or telemetry built in?
Could anyone help verify whether Prusa 3D Printer has any telemetry at all? And, hopefully, that Prusa isn’t planning to change its customer policies in the future to make telemetry collection or ads compulsory?
We already have that it is called respects your freedom.
Framework laptops aren’t on this?
Why do think they should be here? Aren’t they just regular parts, just more repairable. They don’t have any extra openness on firmware side, do they?
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.
Don’t most printers work offline? Even Bambi has a lLAN mode.
Thanks the post is updated
I’m using Anycubic Kobra S1. By default its probably not the most open printer but you can install Rinkhalis to make it work with Orca slicer.
Its been in LAN mode since day one, haven’t seen any outbound requests from it.
Snapmaker U1 has all their firmware on GitHub and works offline in Lan mode.
Agreed. We need more than scattered small brands though. Either a company forms to build anti-surveillance or aggregate all the small ones into a carefully curated marketplace.