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The Enshittification of 3D Printers – Are We Losing What Made Them Great?

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  • I can wait until they work the bugs out.

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  • We're on very similar pages I think.

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  • Honestly, if I were in the market for another machine right now I'd be taking a hard look at building a Voron. I don't WANT a project like that, but it seems like the best compromise in the quality and capability vs price compromise. I'm told they're working on a 600mm³ model that may really tempt me when they finish.

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  • I installed the X-plus firmware, switched to LAN mode, blocked WAN acess at my router and use Orca slicer and honestly, I'm pretty happy with the result. That doesn't mean I'd give Bambu a second chance after their recent moves.

    • The Enshittification of 3D Printers – Are We Losing What Made Them Great?

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  • "There is no huge open source for regular printers..."

    Given the state of regular printers, I'd say this is an excellent argument that there should be! I prefer actually printing to tinkering as well, but I've been around long enough to watch corporate interests destroy any number of tech related things from 2d printers to search engines. Bambu and Apple are both excellent examples of what not to do as well.

    • Any Thoughts, Ideas or Theories of the Bambu H2D that they have been teasing?

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  • They have showed their hand. i would be VERY unlikely to extend my trust to Bambu again. To be clear, I don't necessarily regret my purchase of an X1C, but I'm now running in "local" mode with my machine blocked from WAN access and I don't intend to let Bambu back in.

    • When building a home server, could a used/cheap PC do the job?

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  • There are a lot of ways to go. My own isn't particularly efficient, but it's an old rack mount server. Everything is built like a tank. It's robust as hell, and yet everything was well used and cheap. Probably not a good solution if you live somewhere with expensive power, but I don't.

    • What's up, selfhosters? It's selfhosting Sunday!

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  • I've been hosting Emby forever (and the requisite software to acquire content 😉).

    Recently I added Nextcloud to facilitate cutting several Google products out of my life. Combined with a few FOSS apps, it's currently doing the job of Drive (storage) and Keep (notes), and I'm planning to move my contacts and calendar this week.

    • How can you tell if the phone you're buying is unlocked?

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  • They are independent, but if it was originally carrier unlocked, you're definitely okay. The way I understand it, Swappa at least, only allows OEM unlocked phones to be sold as unlocked.

    https://swappa.com/buy/unlocked

    • How can you tell if the phone you're buying is unlocked?

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  • Hopefully someone will correct me if I'm wrong, but if I understand correctly, any Pixel that is carrier unlocked can have its bootloader unlocked via the "developer options" menu. I've bought two used "unlocked" Pixels on Swappa and had no trouble unlocking the bootloader on either.

    • How Guitar Center plans to beat its online competitors and safeguard the future of its physical stores

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  • Yeah, it's a real shame that Amazon is poisoning the section of the market that GC had already poisoned for the independent guitar shops. Best of luck finding a new section of the market to destroy though...

    • Monthly update on the FOSS "Ladybird" browser engine

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  • Yeah, mostly because of the entire tech industry for the last decade. I've gad every ounce of trust incinerated.

    • Monthly update on the FOSS "Ladybird" browser engine

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  • Oh, I think they're communicating just fine. They're signalling the direction they plan to take and it's not a good one.

    • Most of Lemmy right now

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  • Don't let the door hit you in the ass on your way out.

    • brick layer printing strength analysis by my tech fun

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  • It could, but I don't think there would be any benefit. The key thing this does is make walls a bit closer to the theoretical perfect solid structure.

    • brick layer printing strength analysis by my tech fun

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  • Not as drastic as I had hoped, but it looks like around 5% better layer adhesion provided you increase the flow rate slightly to fit in the gaps. It essentially makes a print that's more solid in the walls.

    I saw elsewhere someone doing prints with transparent filament and they were also getting optically better prints with this.

    Also, there's a pull request on Orca... Not sure when it'll come out, but they're working on building it into the slicer.

    • Why do active pickups require 9v batteries instead of some other kind of battery like AA?

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  • Honestly, if I were designing active guitar gear, I might just try to push 24v phantom power and XLR cables. Have a little power box at the amp or pedalboard and ditch the onboard battery entirely.

    But I loathe alkaline batteries...

    • Updates and Third-Party Integration with Bambu Connect

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  • Their big defense seems to be, "We haven't even done anything yet."

    Sorry Bambu, but you're late to the enshittification game. Setting up a situation where you CAN do these things is a Chekhov gun: sooner or later, we know you'll put them to use.

    • Bambu Lab Security Update will remove OrcaSlicer’s Access

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    • Before You Criticize People Who Bought Bambu

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