TheYang @ TheYang @lemmy.world

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I don't think it's necesarrily nothing, as sending all of that data is so comprehensive it should be communicated clearly by bambu, and it seems (but I don't know!) That it isn't.
Sometimes you might want/need help and don't want to send everything.

For a lot of stuff partial gcode / sensor data around the issue should suffice for example.

But it sounded way worse before the clarification, when I understood that it was sending those logs all the time.

The open source license issues will be interesting, but probably irrelevant. We already can be rather sure that they already are in violation with BambuStudio and no one wants to spend the money to do anything about it.

The only thing I think the Mk4 is missing is a camera / octoprint support, but I can live without those.

Firmware 5.1 enabled octoprint support.
Not as far as they'd like, but it works. From memory what is missing is some support when Local and Octoprint mix (i.e. when you print locally, octoprint can't stop the print. Bit annoying but far from a dealbreaker imho)

A lot of people seem to to think that bedslingers are inherently worse than core xy kinematics.
Core xy is definitely more compact.
In return the belts are longerz tightening them more complex (x and y can become unaligned).
Core xy can be easier for input shaping, as only the z axis mass changes.

I bought Prusa.
I hope to be able to still use the machine in 10 years.
I'm much less confident that BambuLabs machines will be able to do that, than Prusas. This is because of multiple reasons:

• There are design decisions of Bambu that I do not trust (bushings on the x-axis on p1 and x1 machines), which track with the decisions of DJI which I didn't like and where many of Bambus people came from.
• I much prefer to support a comparatively independent european maker than a chinese-bank backed one.
• I do trust Prusa much more to offer long-term support than Bambu
• I prefer to support Open Source, and I do think Bambu is still violating licenses (which imho should not be supported/accepted)
• I do not like Bambus AMS design. Their reliability costs quite a lot of filament.

But Bambu has Prusa beat on price for similar performance. By a significant margin.

And to further your question, I'm not sure Bambus Printers have that much more "simplicity" in use than Prusas. Especially if you buy pre-built. Both are rather plug and play.

In short: I fear / believe that Bambu is exactly the kind of company that ruins products. Underbid your competition, cut costs at the customers expense. Why provide updates to your old products when you make a new gen? Why use a part that lasts longer than the required period for repairs? etc.
The fact that they started regular sales this year (I Believe before was pre-order?! would have to check) and already have 3 different platforms out (X, P and A) is quite a lot of fragmentation. Maybe they designed for that from the start, but... we'll see. AMS and AMS lite also seem quite different.
They may even be the worst kind, that underbids the competition and takes development costs as losses to destroy the competition until you are an effective monopoly, at which point you can fuck everything up way more (increase prices, cut quality / development etc)
In Fairness, they may also not be. They may also have excellent long-term reliability and support. Maybe in 5 years P1 and X1 still get feature updates. Maybe the design decisions turn out to be outstanding.

No, I'm not even sure that this feature doesn't currently exist

But doesn't store cleartext, does it?

yeah that works, but if you want a+20mm or a*1.5 etc, doesn't work so well.

You mean, that? https://youtu.be/x7_KgeLOcKY?feature=shared

No, I meant even easier, In a single (more complex) sketch, I can't just reference another dimension by clicking on it (as far as I know at least)

Learn how their parametric references. On the one hand it's a bit annoying when you can't click something to use as a reference.
On the other hand being able to use any length as a reference is really nice.

Named dimensions can be referenced for example by: Constraints.MainStrutLength*1.25+20mm Or a pad dimension with Pad017.Length2 (from memory) Or a dimension in a sketch in a pad:
Pad018.Sketch018.Constraints.SecondaryStrutLength4

Have you tried realthunders freecad fork?
I've recently been told that it would be vastly better than upstream due to massive fixes in the hierarchy/timeline, making changes much more likely to work.

I haven't tested it though, so no Idea if it's actually true. https://github.com/realthunder/FreeCAD/releases

/e: FreeCAD upstream is tackling the topological naming Problem as well though!
https://github.com/orgs/FreeCAD/projects/2/views/1
It will just still take some time.

Gentoo?

Well, the US has shown that they couldn't fight an insurgency with their level of protections for civilians.
Makes sense that Israel assesses that they have less resources than the US, and thus can't fight the same way and have a hope of success.

Of course they could have used that as a pretty good reason not to start this war in the first placez but alas, they didn't.

I mean, this is the first implementation in qbittorrent.

Imagine if at some points it ships a complete implementation by default, and everyone using qbittorrent could be reached via i2p. We're not there, and not terribly close, but implementing i2p was an important step to get there.

I2P, the invisible internet protocol allows for anonymous torrenting (getting movies, games, etc. without paying). It's fairly old and robust, but lacks actual people using it. Now a program that many people already use has included the option to use this.
This alone may increase the usage of this system, and make it more useful.

You can't decide that you want to learn that organically from the game anymore though.

Those have gotten rather expensive.

But maybe the 4 will become available and cheap now?

That title sucks.
It spoils this reveal (apparently?).

No direct experience here. A friend has one, he's quite experienced with printing, so I assume he got it dialled in well. Recently he talked about a small mandaloroan helmet he printed (mostly grey, but black in the parts that really would be a hole). About 10cm high. He had about the same amount of filament in waste as actual print.

Well, I assume some people understood me as asking "It's just a tree, why the bother?". I tried to get around this with wording, but whatever.

I kinda guess this is largely a "local" thing (not sure how large "local" is though). And of course it's a pity that an angry teen destroyed a hundreds of years old tree.

Well, competition for Valve might not be the worst thing.
On the other Hand I'm not sure if we would have gotten vive or steam deck if valve didn't have a money printing machine with steam.
I'm rather certain that most companies would be worse for consumers, with the level of monopoly (/market dominance) that steam enjoys