Especially on Lemmy. Every misspelling is “AI” to some of these anti-AI whackos. It’s like they’ve never seen shit webpages before. They don’t know that AI spans thousands of different task types, and generalized AI is nowhere near being accomplished.
Those that really understand what “AI” consists of, understand it’s got weaknesses and strengths. And that those strengths can be used for both good things, and bad things.
Even after finding out that Recycling is mostly bullshit? You still do it? I mean, I’d do it if I could ensure it was actually happening, but in most places it simply doesn’t and goes to the landfill anyhow.
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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.
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Oh man, The Onion has been kinda bland lately but this one has me in stitches.
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.
It’s because they’re constantly being told that they’re responsible for all the worlds ills, and discriminated against without any recourse because they’re men and they ‘deserve it’.