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There are SD cards with WiFi support (upload.wikimedia.org)
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[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (3 children)

I'd rather just have an ethernet port on the damn printer. You shouldn't have to cludge together basic network device functionality on devices that expensive

[–] [email protected] 2 points 21 hours ago

I like my simple one. I can do all kinds of hacky bullshit to make it do whatever I want. When you start introducing more things like Wi-Fi/ethernet you start getting locked in to their ecosystem. Which I guess is fine for a lot of people who don't mind that but I can hook mine up to a laptop or pi if I want to add networking to it.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago

It's better to just install klipper on a pi or other SBC

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

At least my 3d printer was so inexpensive it's silly.

I'm pretty happy that the engineering team that built it doesn't need to worry about networking code and maintaining a networked device. Jappy that an open source community does it instead.