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FWIW, I was really interested in the Bambu models until I found out about their shitty corporate behavior.
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There is little I find more hilarious than the " has put out a video on their that says " comment reply. I summarise all these replies in my head as "Influencer I've never heard of influences" I agree with your re: Developer mode though.
This is not the case though, Jeff Geerling is not a no-name influencer. He actually does stuff, contributes to Fedora and AlmaLinux (IIRC). The most influencer-y stuff would be his playing with funny Raspberry Pi setups, but calling that "influencing" would be uncharitable. That's a hobby.
My point was the hilarious cult worship of these people. "X posted a video about Y gasp" when 1 in 10,000 know who X is.
Influencer influences! Film at 11!
This stuff isn’t gonna stop until we regulate it. I bought a miku baby monitor specifically because they were the only manufacturer that had the feature I wanted that promised to never charge monthly fees to use it. Well then they went bankrupt and a company bought them, forced an over the air update that disabled every feature that made the thing worth buying (for $399), and sent out a letter demanding monthly payme…
Seems like the maker community, esp. YouTube influencers, uniformly recommend bambu. Curious-- do folks here have other recommendations? Equivalent quality, speed, maybe even price, but more committed to free software?
We were about to to buy a Bambu Lab printer but then learnt there will be new printers coming out in Q1 so naturally wanted to wait. I need to educate myself on this a bit more on this issue, but it feels like the rest of the printer industry is just catching up with the X1C (looking at Creality K2 Plus).. Do I wait for next-gen printers from Bambu Labs which I imagine will be quite revolutionary, or do I buy we buy…
People seem to be missing that FTP and MQTT are generally insecure protocols. I think FTP is probably the bigger issue than MQTT. This kind of stuff is common in home IOT networks but would never pass security audit on a corporate network. Bambu is growing up, serving more corporations beyond the hobby community, and probably has been asked to beef their security up to make it easier to deploy their printers securely…
I clearly don't understand what kind of security are we talking about in this particular case of using a 3D printer. A protection from what – someone comes to my home, connects to my wifi with my password, and then – prints a huge cube to waste all my filaments? Where's the real threat here?
Of course not. Just the one(s) currently loaded in the printer. They can't pull a filament out of the cupboard and load it via MQTT.
Seems like the maker community, esp. YouTube influencers, uniformly recommend bambu. Curious-- do folks here have other recommendations? Equivalent quality, speed, maybe even price, but more committed to free software?
Generally speaking, no. Prusa comes close - they're dedicated to community and OSS, and are quality parts... but are almost 2x the price and tend to be missing comparable features. The other competition doesn't quite have the UX and quality of Bambu Lab. That's changing slowly, but it's reality today IMO. The challenge is that the 3d Printing community is maturing from a hobbyist/tinker phase into a consumer phase wi…
People seem to be missing that FTP and MQTT are generally insecure protocols. I think FTP is probably the bigger issue than MQTT. This kind of stuff is common in home IOT networks but would never pass security audit on a corporate network. Bambu is growing up, serving more corporations beyond the hobby community, and probably has been asked to beef their security up to make it easier to deploy their printers securely…
I clearly don't understand what kind of security are we talking about in this particular case of using a 3D printer. A protection from what – someone comes to my home, connects to my wifi with my password, and then – prints a huge cube to waste all my filaments? Where's the real threat here?