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I think it's better to use distributed filtering than having their SQL query do additional filtering. Every user who uses filtering adds to the lifting their side has to do - while your CPU probably sits under 1% utilization most of the time.

I'd rather Lemmy have filtering on the client-side, and just shoot us raw data.

THANKS OBAMA! (/s if it's not obvious)

I'd argue the same goes for using Orca Slicer. So a vast majority of people will still be able to continue using the Bambu Labs printers exactly how they have been, that's great.

We can certainly display plenty of outrage when/if that happens. Most of their engineers are ex DJI-drones guys... do DJI drones have a subscription model to fly their drones?

So it sounds like you'll still be able to put gcode on the SD card and start it from there, no?

There really isn't. That's why Bambu has such a strong stranglehold on the market. The price/feature set balance is just sooooooo tilted in their favor right now that it's hard to legitimately pick something else unless you are a stone wall when it comes to compromise in open source philosophy. If the open source philosophy and dogma aren't really part of who you are, there's no reason this change will affect you in the first place.

I don't like Prusa all that much either, but they are A LOT better than bambu.

In what aspect? Because it's not reliability. Or speed. Or ease of repair. Or features. Or price.

Jo's been throwing shit at the wall as fast as he can to catch up to Bambu; and that's good for all of us - certainly. But this isn't a Bambu vs Prusa thing here. Prusa added the dogbone that voids your warranty if you want to flash a new bootloader to the buddyboard -- did you have a problem with that? Did you cry 'slippery slope' back then?

What about all the other great machines out there that are quickly catching up to Bambu's feature set? The K2 seems to be quite interesting. There's room for everyone here.

Still gonna be Bambu out of my mouth 9 out of 10 times. This change doesn't affect most of my customers (to put it in perspective, I do over 1k unique 3D printer repairs per year).

I'm still an open source enthusiast/zealot - but the fact is, most "normal" people, don't give a flying shit about this stuff.

This will be a footnote in my suggestions to them, however.

Because I've seen every open source company I love do the same thing over time.

Makerbot. Ultimaker. Prusa.

Remember the "Dogbone" you have to break on the buddy-boards to be able to flash your own bootloader? None of you people stopped buying Prusa back when that happened...

This hasn't been implemented yet, so we don't know the full details - I'm gonna wait and see where the chips fall before being so reactionary. I'm also going to be a pragmatist, and not pretend that other machines out there don't exist. Bambu will have competition soon - the K2 already seems to be picking up steam, and Creality has a pretty good history when it comes to this kind of thing. There's plenty of competition in the market, and Bambu printers are good enough for most people for now.

Kinda like the Glowforge (a laser cutter) when it came out - it's got all the proprietary locked down stuff, and their users don't care. But real C02 lasers still exist, and are popular too. There's room for both.

I'm not discounting those users who bought, and then had a 'feature' removed. I believe that's terms for a class action if they don't allow third party slicers to be used; but I don't think that's the full story of what's going on here.

My family and I are devout followers of the Satanic Temple (Not really 'Satanists' per-se however); and while yes - I know there are some problematic issues with the leadership, they still use what they are doing in a hilarious way to troll our government when they create christian-centered laws. A lot of what they stand for mirrors my own personal moral code before I ever discovered them. The freedom to offend, is just as important as the freedom of bodily autonomy. Without it, it's impossible to push for changes.

I run a repair shop, and don't own a Bambu Labs printer - also never will. I'm not their target.

However, out of the easily 100+ customers I know that use a Bambu; maybe 2 of them use a different slicer. Most people won't be affected by this change and it's only communities with enthusiasts like ours that will end up caring.

That said, Bambu printers are still a MASSIVE step ahead of even their closest competition. This probably won't stop me from recommending them to consumers in the future, because while I am a zealot; first and foremost concern is that my customers are able to print reliably and easily.

Additionally -- The community always figures this stuff out. Bambu Slicer is open source, and I'm sure it won't take much for them to get around this tiny little speed bump.

This was my initial worry with them to begin with, and it seems to have been founded now; but until someone comes up with a comparable ecosystem, at the same price and quality of Bambu Labs, then it's still a no-brainer to be purchasing them for 99% of people.

You should still get mad, be vocal, and complain - they've reversed course before on other things (Linux Firmware) - so enough of an outcry should poke them into doing something different.

btw, on old POTS lines, your call is connected way way before anyone ever picks up. The audio can be recorded basically the instant the number is dialed. We used to do this at an old customer service training facility.

We'd hear people beating their wives in the background, screaming at their kids, etc. It was bad.

https://old.lemmy.world/comment/14402980

Would someone transphobic write this?

You weirdo perpetually online Lemmy users always jump to the transphobic conclusion. I've been labeled that even though I'm not so many times it's not even funny any longer. But you pull some reddit-tier shit and judge someone based on some cherry-picked history; and then have the balls to tell me to go back to Reddit while exhibiting that same behavior. Hilarious!

Reddit-tier behavior right here. Because you're just looking at the mod log and attributing every thing ever modded to my entire history of posts. I participate in lots of communities, and a majority of my stuff isn't ever modded or deleted.

And it's actually worse over here, because instance admins have access to the history of your up/downvotes, so they can dive even DEEPER and have been caught doing that exact thing.

But way to miss the point - and then go even deeper in proving the point I was making; and being a great example of that point.

Fediverse more censored than Reddit ever was.

Oh surprise surpris......no. This isn't surprising at all.

There is not a single product you use that doesn't have the support of some trump supporter behind it. You gonna go live in the woods off of the fat of the land?

The food you buy, probably 90% Trump supporters. Gonna stop eating? Drive a car? Use plastic at all? All Trump supporting oil barons. Gonna stop using that stuff too? No?

But you'll sit here and virtue signal that you're such a gooooood person because you're swapping over to another VPN...

That also ends up having the same supporters behind it. Great, you hate trump, wooo you're such a virtuous person, (news flash: I'm sure most people do) -- Now come back to earth with the rest of us. Too many of you people let this shit live rent-free in your heads constantly.

Well, men CAN message first, as of like 8 months ago.

Meh. Who cares about the political leanings of some CEO. Separate the art from the artist.

Even better, you can get their VPN for like $1/month if you choose the 'build your own plan'. Supports Wireguard as well. Been a happy sailing customer for 5+ years with no incidences, and they saturate my symmetrical gigabit connection with ease.