…and immediately sues every 911 dispatcher for patent infringement.

I’m with you. Joining parts adds a ton of post processing that I’d really prefer to do without.

“PewdiePie, one of the world’s most popular YouTubers, recently published a video extolling the virtues of GrapheneOS”

Gross. Seriously though, Graphene is really good. Don’t hold this against them.

I’ve had good results with most of Bambu’s filament, BUT, it comes wet. Just dry it thoroughly first and you’ll save yourself a lot of stress.

I can wait until they work the bugs out.

We’re on very similar pages I think.

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.

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.

“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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

There’s already a project to retrofit klipper hardware.

https://github.com/ChazLayyd/Bambu-Lab-Klipper-Conversion/blob/main/README.md

As it turns out, there’s already a project… https://github.com/ChazLayyd/Bambu-Lab-Klipper-Conversion/blob/main/README.md

Just did this yesterday. You won’t need the whole afternoon. It was surprisingly simple.

I’m unconcerned. I knew what I was getting into with a walled garden ecosystem, and though I didn’t expect them to dive straight into the enshittification deep end, I figures they would eventually do something fairly shady. The real question is how long it will take to release the first X1C-Klipper refit.

Politicians are such profoundly unserious people.