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Re: Louis Rossmann offers to pay legal fees for a threatened OrcaSlicer developer

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Post by miladyincontrol »

jwr wrote: post #187
Aurornis wrote: post #7

OrcaSlicer supports Bambu printers already. Does anyone have any better sources for what this other fork supposedly did? EDIT: I’m not going to sit through another angry Louis Rossmann video, but from what I can see someone tried to make a branch of OrcaSlicer that interacted directly with Bambu’s private cloud APIs to impersonate Bambu Studio. I don’t agree with the legal threats but this case is about connecting to…

> OrcaSlicer supports Bambu printers already No, it doesn't. It used to, but then Bambu Labs "for security reasons" (as always) removed access to their "network plugin". There is a lot of confusion around this, so: you lose access to bambu cloud, so quick upload, remote printing, remote monitoring of prints, synchronization of filament data, and lots of other useful features. You get a half-baked "throw it over the w…

I just use the bambu plugin to home assistant and I have 90% of the relevant cloud functionality.

Is it perfect or the ideal solution? Not quite, but it does let me have a fully local bambu printer with any theoretical calling home blocked at a network level.

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Post by consp »

martin_a wrote: post #218
darkteflon wrote: post #210

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Can anyone in the commentariat recommend a great, locally available adhesive in Japan? Vision Miner is import-only and pricey. I’ve been using glue-sticks but am ready to level up as I’m moving away from PLA.

Can you get 3DLAC in Japan? That's what I'm using with great success. Otherwise maybe try some hair sprays, that worked in 2011, too... :-D

3DLAC is hairspray with a different label, you can smell it... I use it too though as it is the easiest high strength hairspray to get.

Re: Louis Rossmann offers to pay legal fees for a threatened OrcaSlicer developer

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Post by miladyincontrol »

bdcravens wrote: post #119
stavros wrote: post #20

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That comes with a big caveat. You can either choose to use the printer offline, or online, with no ability to use both. If you want the ability to monitor or pause a print when you're not home on the off chance something goes wrong, you HAVE to send every print through their cloud, there's no middle ground. That's not Bambu being open, that's them doing the absolute minimum to allow people to say "you can use Bambu p…

Monitoring is still possible with Tailscale and Bambu Companion (or a number of third party apps you can put on a Raspberry Pi or similar) https://testflight.apple.com/join/VXBxZYNr https://bambuddy.cool/

Works great with home assistant too.

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Post by easterncalculus »

Aurornis wrote: post #229
antoniojtorres wrote: post #111

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I have trouble understanding how the opinions of the historical right to repair guy are surprising or even considered drama, it’s not drama because it’s not interpersonal gossip, it’s right to repair activism.

The channel has been about a lot more than right to repair. He jumps on every tech controversy that will generate traffic, including wading into drama between other YouTube channels. > it’s not drama because it’s not interpersonal gossip, it’s right to repair activism. He has definitely engaged in dramas that have nothing to do with right to repair activism, including weighing in on dramas between other tech YouTuber…

> Does nobody remember his old videos rambling about women and gender topics, for example?

No one remembers these because they don't exist.

Re: Louis Rossmann offers to pay legal fees for a threatened OrcaSlicer developer

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Post by gambiting »

superkuh wrote: post #226
gambiting wrote: post #53

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He's just like Steve nowadays - he built his entire brand on being angry, so he has to be angry or his core audience will leave. And if that's what you like then fine, but for me it's just not interesting anymore.

...or, or(!) maybe things really do suck right now? I don't think this is a controversial view. There's reasons to be upset and demand change regarding intellectual property legislation and computing and related technology's hardware.

Of course, but they get to choose what their channel is about, and we as viewers choose if we're intersted in it. Louis specifically used to put up videos of really interesting repairs of apple products and he just doesn't do that anymore. I'm not saying he should change or that he chose a wrong path - I'm just saying I'm not interested in his channel anymore, just like I stopped watching Gamers Nexus once Steve decided that his entire personality is just going to be ranting for 60+ minutes every video. Some people love that, I don't. That doesn't mean his complaints don't have merit or are not worth doing - just that consuming content(and it's very much content) takes time, which we all have in limited supply and I'd rather watch someone being happy with something rather than being angry at everything. If I feel like being angry I just open the news.

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Post by [deleted] »

Aurornis wrote: post #225
MBCook wrote: post #205

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Bambu won with relentless free giveaways to every YouTuber on the planet, cheap prices, and a consumer friendly looking design. I don’t think they earned it. I suspect there is a huge number of people out there who bought them who don’t even know what else exists. They saw a YouTuber advertise one on a video making something and decided to buy that.

I think you’re trying to rewrite history. The Bambu printers were really, really good for their price point when they came out. It wasn’t looks or giveaways. The printers were seriously much better hardware than what Prusa had at the time. I was recommending Prusa to everyone who inquired about 3D printers for many years before Bambu launched, so I’m not unfamiliar with the market. Trying to criticize Bambu for sendi…

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Post by MBCook »

laweijfmvo wrote: post #224
MBCook wrote: post #205

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Bambu won with relentless free giveaways to every YouTuber on the planet, cheap prices, and a consumer friendly looking design. I don’t think they earned it. I suspect there is a huge number of people out there who bought them who don’t even know what else exists. They saw a YouTuber advertise one on a video making something and decided to buy that.

Prusa is equally guilty there, I think. Every time I see a Youtuber receiving multiple free Prusa printers, while I continue to save and delay on the high price of getting one myself, I curse them a bit more.

In the last two years I could easily count on one hand the number of Prusas I’ve seen given out. Yeah, it happens. Bambu is straight up sending them to everyone breathing. 3D printer people? Given Bambu. Tinkerers? Bambu. Lego channels? Yeah seriously Bambu. Way outside the traditional maker channels.

I’m not saying no one should give out free printers. But Bambu is carpet bombing YouTube, and they require the videos be turned into Bambu ads to do it. Having to show it multiple times, talk about its great features multiple times, etc. i’ve never seen the script but I’ve seen enough videos have conspicuously similar elements promoting the printer to know it must a condition.

The videos I’ve seen where people get a free XL mention that fact, maybe one other, but that’s about it. It’s not hammered on like Bambu seems to want.

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Post by tssva »

wolvoleo wrote: post #182
jchw wrote: post #66

I made the tragic mistake of getting a Bambu printer (an X1C, with AMS even...) right before they gave all of us the middle finger. I now have it offline, running out of date firmware, connected to a special WiFi network that is isolated from the Internet. That upset me, but now I'm pissed. Now I don't even care about their stupid printers. Now I'd like to waste Bambu Lab's time and cause problems for them. And also,…

Meh. I use bambu and I am a maker but it's not a big thing in my opinion. I bought a bambu precisely because I don't want to mod the thing with a gazillion custom upgrades like I needed to do with my previous printers to make them work reliably. I just want to press print and... print. Bambu totally delivers there. They really commoditised 3D printing and brought the price down. And if you do want to go off the beate…

My daughter is an architecture student and needed a 3d printer to help with making models for her studio class. She had no desire to learn the ends and outs of 3d printers. She wanted something easy to use and reliable. The Bambu Labs printer I bought her has been just that.

Re: Louis Rossmann offers to pay legal fees for a threatened OrcaSlicer developer

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Post by fileoffset »

xattt wrote: post #50
Aurornis wrote: post #7

OrcaSlicer supports Bambu printers already. Does anyone have any better sources for what this other fork supposedly did? EDIT: I’m not going to sit through another angry Louis Rossmann video, but from what I can see someone tried to make a branch of OrcaSlicer that interacted directly with Bambu’s private cloud APIs to impersonate Bambu Studio. I don’t agree with the legal threats but this case is about connecting to…

Although local LAN control is still unhindered, browsing the filesystem on the printer from the slicer is locked behind cloud mode. Getting cloud mode means using Bambu Studio. Getting Bambu Studio means one more notch in slowly getting locked into the walled Bambu garden.

doesn't the bambu have a built in FTP server?
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