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Re: Restore full BambuNetwork support for Bambu Lab printers

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Post by bayindirh » Mon, May 18, 2026, 12:05 PM UTC

account42 wrote: post #340

bayindirh wrote: post #252

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Printing a family picture on 4"x6" photo paper, framing it and putting in a living room exposes it to copious amount of UV light over a decade. It's one of the exact reasons inkjet printers and blank, inkjet-compatible photo paper exists. HP was bundling them with their printers when I last opened mine.

No one is using a bog standard inkjet for something they want to frame for years.

A "bog standard inkjet" with pigment inks is not inferior to photo printing. "Photo lab processed photos" degrade equally badly when not displayed behind UV filtering glass.

Even my "bogger standard" inkjet with dye-based colors hold up extremely well. Heck, the photo is taking at dusk with a very dark-blue background, and it's still equally dark. Maybe the paper coating has UV resistance. IDK.

Re: Restore full BambuNetwork support for Bambu Lab printers

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Post by parasubvert » Tue, May 19, 2026, 11:19 PM UTC

Chaosvex wrote: post #122

parasubvert wrote: post #90

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A comment defending abusive software terms on a website called HackerNews. Something amusing about that.

The term "Hacker" means many things.

Re: Restore full BambuNetwork support for Bambu Lab printers

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Post by Gormo » Thu, May 21, 2026, 2:02 PM UTC

skinfaxi wrote: post #299

danw1979 wrote: post #263

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You’re talking about when you used to be able to run Unifi Video on your own distro? Yeah that was good, but you definitely don’t have to “use their cloud solution” for NVR now; you buy the box, the video is stored on the box.

Yeah you used to be able to run unifi video on your own hardware. Now you have to use their box and access it through their cloud. I had notifications working in the self-hosted version with VPN.

Yeah, that was an annoying move, but a bit more understandable in terms of the support overhead of dealing with controller installations in a wide variety of disparate environments. They could have continued to offer it in an "unsupported" state, but then there are already great community-driven FOSS projects like Frigate in that space that are a better fit for the self-hosting segment.

But Ubiquiti doesn't really seem to be going for ecosystem lock-in: on the flipside, earlier this year, they released an update to UniFi Protect that enabled any RTSP-based video stream to be connected into it, rather than just their own cameras. That enabled us to migrate a site with 30+ Hikvision cameras over to UniFi infrastructure without having to purchase all new cameras from Ubiquiti.

Other companies might be disappointed that we didn't buy cameras from them, but maybe the people at Ubiquiti understand that we weren't going to do that in the first place, and not being able to use our existing cameras was a blocking factor for us to move the rest of the infrastructure over to UniFi.

Re: Restore full BambuNetwork support for Bambu Lab printers

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Post by mschulkind » Thu, May 21, 2026, 5:33 PM UTC

hypfer wrote: post #153

locknitpicker wrote: post #150

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> 2. For printing from the app, they actually run the computationally expensive slicing algorithm on their servers, so this is totally reasonable to protect. That's an artificial vendor tie-in, and arguably a feature that only involves their client app and their backend. It's understandable if access to their backend is restricted to a subset of their users if that's the business model they wish. Preventing paying cu…

Is it artificial though? They've bought a machine that executes gcode and that it does (at least to my understanding) regardless of where that gcode comes from. If you want special secret sauce gcode from the bambu cloud, you need to use the bambu cloud. Those are not the same thing, so IMO it is legit what they do there, because it's such a clear-cut split. You own the physical thing but not the ecosystem around it.…

I love the thoughtful response.

I feel you on every point, but I'd point out that they sell VERY reasonably priced replacement parts for basically everything on the A1 Mini that I have that is worth repairing.