The two ways of fighting profiteering

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I simply pulled the knob off in the store & shoved the rest of the stove up my butt, later at home I printed the missing knob. It's a simple life-hack, basically everyone is doing it.

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Is it much different from 7 months ago?

https://youtu.be/J--QVhGheP4
https://youtu.be/p8Pk1ayx6LQ

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Followed by getting out the calipers and opening OpenSCAD

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Not a meme

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I hate that as a society it is somehow ok to steal for your convenience. Its the same thing with lots of other things as well. Don't you just love it when you buy a product only to get home and find half of it was stolen?

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That's fraud

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Yes. The 1.0 release was in November. That Ondsel fork in your video was based on, I believe, the 0.22 version.

The 1.0 release actually prompted Ondsel to shut down entirely, as they are now largely redundant and attempting to monetize a FOSS program was probably doomed from the start anyway...

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Yeah? You should see the kind of crap my vendors are always trying to do to me. If anything the owe me big time anyhow.

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But now it's the only one that doesn't look nicely polished, unlike the other knobs.

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A while back I would use those local secondhand auctions that mostly dealt in amazon returns. (As opposed to directly buying from amazon.)

I'm surprised how everything would be intact for a lot of items, but most commonly if I got bamboozled, it was something like, everything is fine except for missing a set of screws, or a single crucial knob or something.

People literally will just order the same thing again, pull the part they missed, and instantly return it. Especially when it's no longer a secret these returns just get destroyed or incinerated for no reason.

It's just disgusting consumer-brain behavior. (Amazon, of course, being sheer evil, enjoys the market advantage of a "no questions" return policy.)

If it was a very specialty piece beyond a simple hardware store run, a lot of times I've been lucky enough to contact the manufacturer of a thing and they'd just send me the missing bit. Free. Super simple. The most I had to do was take a picture of the model tag.

The fact that this was too much for people to bother with grosses me out.

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Much more realistic that we'd intentionally spend $40 on a specialty roll of filament to have the right color and finish for that one specific print. See, I'm totally saving money! Right after I print, like, nine more of these!

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Pro tip as a 3D printer owner/user though:

Oftentimes for small elements like this you can just contact the company and they'll send you a knob or whatever.
(Probably won't be that lucky on repair parts though)

But I also enjoy the pride of seeing things I've repaired and longevitized with my own equipment.

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But what the hell happened to the other knob? I've done a lot of stupid shit around the stove but I can't imagine what could happen to it.

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Tell that to the judge.

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They should buy some paint so it matches the other knobs.

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How many of you dipshits are there?

Learn what a meme is, you guys look dumb as hell spamming posts with this

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Two wrongs don't make a right

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They always wait until these people have stolen a bunch before they prosecute. It takes years to build a case.

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Little sanding and silver Rub 'n Buff on that print will make it look a lot better and closer match to the rest.

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