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Bambu Lab is abusing the open source social contract

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hellweaver666 wrote: post #421
sleight42 wrote: post #403

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How do you upgrade a Mk3 to a Core One?

You upgrade the Mk3 to a Mk3s, upgrade the Mk3S to the Mk4, upgrade the Mk4 to the Mk4s and the Mk4s to the Core One. Prusa sell upgrade kits for each generation of printer. If you were to do it all in one go it would require replacing the same components multiple times and would be insanely expensive and time consuming but if you upgrade as the product evolves its not a big deal (I recently upgraded my Mk4 to a Mk4s…

Ah nuts. And here I have a 3s+ and then I "upgraded" to an X1C.

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imtringued wrote: post #426
switchbak wrote: post #173

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"you only had to change one setting on the printer itself, and optionally block the printer from Internet access via the firewall to prevent automatic firmware updates and telemetry" - "only" is doing a lot of work here. Yes, this is easy for us, but that part alone is beyond most users. I have a P1S myself, and I find Bambu to be a strange company. They're one that has benefited tremendously from OSS while sometimes…

>They specifically engineer it such that your prints need to go through an intermediary even when it could send it right to your device on a simple network. You have people in this very same HN submission complain that they want to send prints even if they are not in the same network. Their primary complaint is that Bambu Labs won't let them use their cloud in combination with OrcaSlicer. In other words, they like th…

Please read my message- I said all that networking stuff was beyond the average user.

I didn’t make a recommendation (tailscale or otherwise), you should ensure you’re taking in the actual intent before writing a reply.

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