It should be case by case. Simple as that.

This is not an ideal situation to begin with. I stopped upgrading my P1S firmware at 1.07.00.00 and I use OrcaSlicer in LAN mode.

At least you have control over the machine.

X1C at least has a custom 3rd party firmware. So you can keep control of your machine at the very least.

I bought a Creality K1 before I received my P1S as a gift and the setup was pretty easy.

Other printers are there or getting there in ease of use, but Bambu Lab clearly had a headstart and used that to try and close their ecosystem

Yes but unless they get challenged in court, they will continue to do so.

Their slicer is forked from Prusa slicer, which is forked from Slic3r which is AGPL.

Unless they write their own slicer from scratch, they are stuck with the AGPL license. They tried to mitigate that by adding poorly implemented user authentication code.

The dev used their AGPL code to create the Orca Slicer fork and now, Bambu Lab is mad because it exposed their shitty security and poor attempt at closing their ecosystem.

Bambu are not the only easy to setup anymore, but they did influence the trend.

They also have MakerWorld/Bambu handy that makes it really easy to start a print from anywhere.

So they are extremely easy to use.

But they are trying to leverage that to close their ecosystem and lock users in with shady practices…

The issue is that a lot of everyday services depends on Google.

If your bank decides it integrates with Google Play Services, well fuck you, your degoogled device won’t work anymore and you’ll have to switch banks or forego using your device for banking.

Every corpo is pushing hard to interwind themselves with your day to day so that they become the gatekeepers of your life and rent seek.

It’s easy for us to find an alternative because we are tech litterate, but not everyone has the knowledge to do so and it is increasingly hard to do so.

GrapheneOS uses Google hardware and depends on Google publishing the Device Tree Blob to create their software over.

By branching with Motorola, it gives them more viability for when Google decide they won’t publish the DTB anymore (it will happen).

But GrapheneOS is still dependant on Motorola not being dicks.

Force the companies to behave, not the populace to be controlled.

There is a local initiative going around for age verification software and I am baffled that anybody support that, and moreso that parents created a software and the initiative.

Just a quick correction, its M capital for Mega, m is for milli.

And Giga is also G capital, not sure there is a low case g for engineer notation.

And they aren’t even paying the real price yet. AI companies hope to capture the market and make it big.

Every C-Suite think they will be able to snatch senior devs that other companies will train.

LLMs are just one way to monetize the data. I would bet hand over fire that Microsoft used the data as soon as they bought GitHub.

I’m with you on that. It will not happen

There is a value tied to the non-salary benefits. Include that in the cap.

I had an allergy reaction test with my son last week. It’s a two hours test where he eats an increasingly bigger portion of allergen to see if he is still allergic.

We arrive 15 mins early for our scheduled start at 9:15. We are the first of the day for the test. 9:55 we finally see the doctor. The first appointment of the day starts late by 40 mins.

The appointment before that one, we were scheduled at 10:00. By 11:45, we still haven’t seen the doctor to start the two hour test. And I’m being told that this is normal by a nurse.

Just fucking infuriating all around.

Dont update the firware and use Orca Slicer

WKUK was making a comeback during COVID with lots of small videos and I really enjoyed them.