A Polish developer published an OrcaSlicer fork that restored what Bambu Lab's January 2025 firmware update broke. Days later, Bambu's lawyers came calling —...
I hadn’t heard of their company culture until recently, but as long as they’re being reviewed positively, then they’re not going to lose customers. I don’t personally own one of their printers, nor do I plan to, but online reviews are what moves units.
And is promised to be open, but their hardware is still proprietary closed source just like bambu and they use a proprietary hotend and nozzle that you can’t replace 3rd party, so if anything breaks and they decide not to help you, good luck fixing it.
Almost exactly how bambu started. Seemed to get better once 3rd parties cloned their proprietary parts (not of their own doing), then nosedived.
Looks like an amazing printer at a great price, but so did Bambu in the beginning.
The opportunity for future enshitification is the main reason I’ll never connect mine to the internet. It’s a great printer, but I don’t trust any tech companies for basically the reasons you described.
Bambu has painted themselves into a corner. Other companies are making toolhead changer printers without the AMS waste and without the closed system bullshit.
They have indeed been carpetbombing YouTube. It’s always off-putting when a woodworking youtuber with notoriously dubious computer skills suddenly receives an AMS printer and becomes an expert in fusion 360 and iterative design.
Clearly Bambu is providing design services for them so that their “I’ve got a printer, let’s find a use for it” shop improvement project is portrayed in a positive light instead of the youtuber bitching about the learning curve and frustration of failed prints. It’s disingenuous and slimy.
I hadn’t heard of their company culture until recently, but as long as they’re being reviewed positively, then they’re not going to lose customers. I don’t personally own one of their printers, nor do I plan to, but online reviews are what moves units.
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My buddy has a Bamboo. It’s pretty good. My Snapmaker U1 is way better, and is actually open.
And is promised to be open, but their hardware is still proprietary closed source just like bambu and they use a proprietary hotend and nozzle that you can’t replace 3rd party, so if anything breaks and they decide not to help you, good luck fixing it.
Almost exactly how bambu started. Seemed to get better once 3rd parties cloned their proprietary parts (not of their own doing), then nosedived.
Looks like an amazing printer at a great price, but so did Bambu in the beginning.
The opportunity for future enshitification is the main reason I’ll never connect mine to the internet. It’s a great printer, but I don’t trust any tech companies for basically the reasons you described.
Nice they make that an option tho
Yep. Anything that needs to connect to the internet to function is never entering my home.
It is open. They published their firmware on GitHub like they promised.
3rd party nozzles are on Aliexpress
And you can flash 3rd party firmware too.
Bambu has painted themselves into a corner. Other companies are making toolhead changer printers without the AMS waste and without the closed system bullshit.
Prusa make a 5 toolhead printer with a tool changer and they’re dedicated to reprap and open source
Flashforge looks promising.
God yea, the u1 is soooo damn nice
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Bambu heavily invested in “reviews” with asshole Youtubers.
They have indeed been carpetbombing YouTube. It’s always off-putting when a woodworking youtuber with notoriously dubious computer skills suddenly receives an AMS printer and becomes an expert in fusion 360 and iterative design.
Clearly Bambu is providing design services for them so that their “I’ve got a printer, let’s find a use for it” shop improvement project is portrayed in a positive light instead of the youtuber bitching about the learning curve and frustration of failed prints. It’s disingenuous and slimy.
Fuck Bambu.
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