I absolutely detest text messaging or emails. You have a problem? Call me because I can probably solve your issue in one minute of phone call. I have been almost always been subjected to texting sessions that lasted for several hours because the dumbass on the other end lacked the spelling and vocab skills to provide an accurate written description of the problem.
Time is money and even sometimes life threatening unless the fastest method of communication is use. And fastest ain't an email or text.
Bambu hasn't been the first to not turn on some features in the standard Marlin firmware. They won't be the last either. PID tuning isn't something you do a lot of anyway. Maybe once or twice if you change out extruder types or do a complete reset of firmware. They are probably calling some kind of macro to automatically do it for all the newbies out there. If you went and studied Bambu's firmware, you could find the section in the firmware to turn it on I suppose.
PID tuning is available in Marlin printers. I've had PID tuning in my 6 year old Prusa Mk3s for 6 years now. Whether or not it's been turned on for that Ender 3 is another question. But it can be turned on with a bit of editing.
Bambu though, has seen fit to remove manual PID tuning for users. I'm not impressed by that. A step backwards IMO.
The slicer assumes those settings built in. And will take care of those finer details well enough for those "older non-technical" people. Each slicer assumes density and flow rates for each filament type that will work good enough for the vast majority of people. Just make sure your new people understand the importance of selecting the correct filament type and to choose a temperature for the nozzle and heatbed somewhere in middle of that sticker on the spool. At that point, 95%+ of all problems will be solved for them.
As I said, each printer is a rule unto itself. So your desire for settings for every brand and type of filament won't make anymore difference than is already built into a slicer. And settings like flow and density can and do change from batch to batch and even spool to spool. And it can quickly become a game of whack-a-mole, (I got a tee shirt somewhere around here). And if you are printing expensive engineering filaments, I would really recommend you go to the manufacturer's website and look up their recommendations for those materials. This is why I buy MatterHacker when I need those types of filaments. They have data sheets for each filament they produce. While I'm not much concerned about common PLA and PETG, I don't trust any filament retailer that does not have those data sheets for expensive engineering filaments. Nor should anyone else.
Don't sweat such things. None of them are anymore than a starting point for a new filament. Every printer is a rule unto itself for best results with any given filament. And most filament brands put a sticker on the spool to tell you what temp ranges the extruder and heat bed generally work best with that brand.
So pick a starting temperature for the nozzle and bed and then print a temp tower or two if you really want the best out of the filament with your particular printer. Then adjust accordingly and save YOUR profile. If it doesn't matter much, those mid-range temps will work just fine. And no extra thought required.
While it's not a universal solution, (you do need to be 5% smarter than the machine you are fixing), it's a good option to have for those of us in the middle of nowhere and often having a need to fix something now to get it working and not need to wait for 2 weeks from now. I do keep a roll of 95A TPU for other items.
I do have a possible use for such a solution. But I will need to remove to roof off of my JD tractor to get at one of the blower motors. It should be an excellent replacement for the open foam gasket that cost $30US from JD.
After many years of tiptoeing through the distros, from RedHat 5 and Mandrake6 to Slack to Gentoo and now Fedora 41. The last thing I want anymore is to need to go RTFM.
I don't want to open a terminal to compile anything, (I got stacks of tee shirts), or goggle, (yes goggle), to make things work. I'm too old for this crap and I don't have that much longer to live wasting my short time remaining staring at a terminal and reading man pages. Distros and Linux by extension should "just work" in 2025. And thankfully they do-- most of the time.
You want to be a Sysadmin and a cmd line commando, have at it. I'm peacing out.
Now if only GUIs could be called and worked telepathically. Or better yet, fix any problems before they happen without me even knowing about it.
Perhaps the best line ever uttered in any movie. Rowdy Roddy Piper maybe a B movie actor at best, but he was meant to play that role in that movie.
I have often wondered: Who wore a kilt best. Bruce Campbell or Rowdy Roddy Piper. Campbell was a Sharp Dressed Man in his kilt for sure. But Piper wrestled in one for years-- it was his trade mark garb.
At it's most basic, a patent is a piece of paper you can wave around and hopefully scare off others from your idea. But, until a judge somewhere bangs a gavel and says Yea or Nay, it's nothing more than asswipe. A patent fight is insanely expensive-- even for multi-national corpos. Hence all the cross licensing agreements among them.
Source: I've held a minor niche patent, (it wasn't worth the money spent beyond the cool factor), and I knew a person who held a patent on what was basically a rectangle with drilled holes in it. He wanted to sue another manufacturer that was was doing a direct knock off. He got told straight up 1.You can't afford it. 2. It wouldn't stand up in court. 3. So don't bother.
I have no idea either. The camera on any smart phone I've ever had is a wasted feature. I would rather have a faster processor or more memory or better battery. So I always try to buy the phone with the worst camera to save money.
The French tried to impose "metric" time way back in the day. Even they learned that was a bad idea and quietly dropped it. The solar system seems to prefer it's base12 time.
I think it maybe helped give rise the the saying: "The French follow no one. And no one follows the French."
I absolutely detest text messaging or emails. You have a problem? Call me because I can probably solve your issue in one minute of phone call. I have been almost always been subjected to texting sessions that lasted for several hours because the dumbass on the other end lacked the spelling and vocab skills to provide an accurate written description of the problem.
Time is money and even sometimes life threatening unless the fastest method of communication is use. And fastest ain't an email or text.