u/Djaesthetic

Has Kia replaced frontline sales with an AI auto-attendant? Five different people text this week, each asking the same questions, not one acknowledging a single response provided.

At the end of a 24mo lease (2024 EV6 GT-Line RWD). Interested in a 2026, identical trim.

- 2024: ~2.26% MF + $15,600 rebate
- 2026 (quote): ~4.9% MF + only $7,100 rebate

The 5th rep quoted a better MF but on the wrong trim, rebate still down $8,500 from 2024 terms. Some of that is likely the Fed EV credit expiration, but Kia also cut the 2026 MSRP ~$5,500 to offset that same credit loss. If the price already dropped $5,500 and the credit was $7,500, where’s the extra $8,500 reduction coming from?

Anyone else seeing the same gap, or is this just my dealership? Appreciate it in advance!

Chain of issues on a QIDI Max4 and hoping I'm not alone here.

THE LOOP

• Printer auto-updates (no way found to disable this) and announced it installed an update.
• Status shows "The printer is in perfect condition and ready to work!"
• Start a print, fails 10-20min in "Update failure," head stuck to the part, no other info given.
• Power cycle, printer again reports "perfect condition" (head still physically stuck).
• Repeats on next attempt.

FIRMWARE MISMATCH

• Printer is on 01.01.06.05, I believe trying to push 01.01.06.06.
• QIDI's public changelog for the Max4 only goes up to 01.01.06.04. Can't find .05/.06 documented anywhere.

KLIPPER/MOONRAKER WON'T RESPOND

• "RESTART KLIPPER" and "FIRMWARE RESTART" do nothing from the touchscreen.
• Same commands from Fluidd return "Klippy Host not connected."
• QIDI's GitHub has their Klipper fork but explicitly says not to use KIAUH or git to update manually. No instructions given for what to do instead. GitHub repo also has no releases/tags, just a single main branch (unlike their other printer repos, which have normal version history).

Has anyone gotten a stuck Klipper host back up on one of these, or found an actual manual firmware flash method for the Max4? Also curious if anyone's had luck getting QIDI support to push a fix for a bad OTA. With the Max4 being so new, there's little to no troubleshooting info out there. Appreciate any pointers!

Forgive my novice question, but I frequently see the Mordax Data in people’s rigs and always find myself curious what about them is justifying the $400 price tag. I feel like I’m wildly missing the point by viewing it as a fancy oscilloscope.

About ~10 min ago was about to place an order on Detroit Modular when suddenly.

"Hey boss, I uhh.. I may have accidentally deleted the store..."

[EDIT]: Big Shopify outage affecting everyone. Boo

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Newly into modular. Spent months toying w/ 3 potential builds on Modulargrid, each having both an onboard sequencer AND a method for bringing in ext signaling (ex: MIDI to CV).

MY QUESTION: How often are you sequencing externally vs. onboard, and how important is the flexibility for both to you in practice?

This week Oxi is having a sale and I’m weighing if it’s worth picking up their Eurorack breakout module, or if ultimately it’d end up just taking up space as I always used the onboard sequencer. Obviously this is personal preference + use-case, but I’d love to hear other experiences.

Potentially novice question here --

I just got a Syntakt in the last month and love the macro retrig function assigned to tracks 13-16 for rapid glitch.

I also just got a Digitakt II this week (clearly the Syntakt made an impression) and would love the same feature on it as well. Is there a way to configure similar?