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Restore full BambuNetwork support for Bambu Lab printers

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Re: Restore full BambuNetwork support for Bambu Lab printers

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Post by Aurornis »

em-bee wrote: post #12
Aurornis wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That’s a vibe coded AI slop website if I’ve ever seen one. It even has a careers page that they didn’t try to edit out. There’s basically no information there. Is this just a copy of the other GitHub repo that was removed and someone is trying to rebrand it as their own? Or did they do some different work?

That’s an LLM generated website if I’ve ever seen one the explanation for that is here https://youtu.be/II2QF9JwtLc basically louis found that not using AI to design his website drastically reduced the hits he would get from google.

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Re: Restore full BambuNetwork support for Bambu Lab printers

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Post by _carbyau_ »

SchemaLoad wrote: post #13
drum55 wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I’ve been running mine offline for years, I don’t know why other people haven’t been. They’re the only competent and reliable printer that isn’t a project car in itself, but they’re obviously not completely trustworthy. Easily fixed with an air gap, updates work just great from a USB drive.

I tried it but switched back to the online mode because being able to remotely check in via the app is very useful to check the print hasn't failed.

Mine is now offline.

But when it was online, I never checked the app for failed prints. If the print has failed, I'll find out when I'm near enough to it to do something about it.

When offline, it amused me when there was a "hairball" and the printer detected it advising "AI Detecting Print Error".

At what level does an image analysis algorithm become "AI"?

Re: Restore full BambuNetwork support for Bambu Lab printers

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Post by nullc »

bri3d wrote: post #7

This looks to be a clone of the prior state of the repository that caused all the Bambu drama earlier this week. I did a ton of research because I didn't understand what people wanted here, and this is what's going on: Right now, Bambu have adjusted their system into two modalities: * "default" or "Cloud" mode, where you get an app, remote monitoring, but you have to use Bambu Studio or Bambu Connect to send prints.…

> clients can send prints locally

Using an AGPL violating mystery meat binary plugin that you run on your host, which potentially compromises any airgap you put around your printer (it attempts to connect to bambu servers, or did last time I checked it) and potentially your entire host.

Re: Restore full BambuNetwork support for Bambu Lab printers

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Post by drum55 »

sho_hn wrote: post #23
drum55 wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I’ve been running mine offline for years, I don’t know why other people haven’t been. They’re the only competent and reliable printer that isn’t a project car in itself, but they’re obviously not completely trustworthy. Easily fixed with an air gap, updates work just great from a USB drive.

> They’re the only competent and reliable printer that isn’t a project car in itself Prusa.

Yeah I’ve had one, still do, it never gets used because it’s a project car. Compared with one button press and coming back to a print in a few hours, it’s a constant nightmare of debugging, print issues, and manually changing filaments that aren’t stored in an airtight container and get wet. It’s not even competition, as much as I would like to support open source tools the Prusa stuff is an order of magnitude more expensive than a A1 Mini that will make a reliable print every time.

It’s like saying a bicycle is a serious contender to a train, they both have kind of similar things going on but you’d have to be insane to suggest that they do as good of a job as one another at the things people actually want to achieve.

Re: Restore full BambuNetwork support for Bambu Lab printers

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Post by nathanmills »

em-bee wrote: post #29
andhug wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It’s still AI slop, even if your favorite youtuber built it.

yes, but that is not the problem here. the problem is that google search favors AI slop that makes this the preferred method of webdesign. there is a huge difference between creating AI slop because i am lazy (which i think most people doing that are) and creating AI slop because otherwise google gives your website a bad rating. now you and i may not care about google ratings, but many other people do, and the end re…

> somehow we need to send google a message to stop that.

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Re: Restore full BambuNetwork support for Bambu Lab printers

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Post by Aurornis »

em-bee wrote: post #29
andhug wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It’s still AI slop, even if your favorite youtuber built it.

yes, but that is not the problem here. the problem is that google search favors AI slop that makes this the preferred method of webdesign. there is a huge difference between creating AI slop because i am lazy (which i think most people doing that are) and creating AI slop because otherwise google gives your website a bad rating. now you and i may not care about google ratings, but many other people do, and the end re…

The Google excuse doesn’t even hold water when you consider that the content of the website is so bad that it’s not even going to register for the relevant search terms. It’s just empty AI slop copy.

What are they even trying to rank for? It doesn’t make sense.

Re: Restore full BambuNetwork support for Bambu Lab printers

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Post by oliwarner »

bri3d wrote: post #7

This looks to be a clone of the prior state of the repository that caused all the Bambu drama earlier this week. I did a ton of research because I didn't understand what people wanted here, and this is what's going on: Right now, Bambu have adjusted their system into two modalities: * "default" or "Cloud" mode, where you get an app, remote monitoring, but you have to use Bambu Studio or Bambu Connect to send prints.…

> This isn't actually possible

This is only true due to a firmware they pushed last year. It's an artificial limit.

There's no reason at all a local client couldn't just talk to a local printer without any cloud.

Every problem BambuLabs have here is self-inflicted. They could allow simultaneous cloud and local queue management with or without authentication.

Re: Restore full BambuNetwork support for Bambu Lab printers

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Post by unsnap_biceps »

xg15 wrote: post #20
bri3d wrote: post #7

This looks to be a clone of the prior state of the repository that caused all the Bambu drama earlier this week. I did a ton of research because I didn't understand what people wanted here, and this is what's going on: Right now, Bambu have adjusted their system into two modalities: * "default" or "Cloud" mode, where you get an app, remote monitoring, but you have to use Bambu Studio or Bambu Connect to send prints.…

> where the device displays a token and you put it into your app. This sounds really unpleasant to use. Maybe users just want a better UX for the local mode?

I believe it's a one time pairing code, not each print. FWIW I like the design.
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