I was in the largest 3D printer retailer in the region this weekend, they are fighting with Bambu to send printers back because demand is near zero.
I’m surprised this isn’t a bigger part of the story.
Bambu’s authentication is just the client saying “I am Bambu Studio”. The server completely trusts that with no additional authentication.
It’s like setting up a website with a user login, and if someone puts in “admin” in the username field without a password, the system says “sounds good” and lets you in. And then the website owners getting mad that someone hacked their system.
Blatant incompetence. I can’t believe they’re using their stupidity as an argument.
It’s like setting up a website with a user login, and if someone puts in “admin” in the username field without a password, the system says “sounds good” and lets you in. And then the website owners getting mad that someone hacked their system.
Blatant incompetence. I can’t believe they’re using their stupidity as an argument.
You are right, but technically speaking it would be a crime anyway. It is not that if you leave your door open then entering without permissione is not a crime.
While Bambu Labs obviously is trying to implement some sort of subscribtion model, and they are doing it in a bad faith way, for shitty as the authentication model is it is not an authorization to enter freely.
Not paywalled link
GOAT
MVP doing god’s work!
Has Bambu labs considered printing and then eating a bag of dicks?
i have a bambu ps1, bought last December, I’ve only used it in LAN with orcaslicer, should i get rid of her? I’ve never used bambu app
With the new A1 catching fire issue it’s not unreasonable to consider their engineering flawed and dangerous. Reason enough…
The fact that they have a history and are now more committed than ever to locking down hardware that they don’t own is ridiculous. Fuck bambu.
Man I was looking at one of the Bambus to supplement my old Monoprice Maker Select. I was hoping to something with less fuss.
People saying good things about the snapmaker u1. Also have a friend with the centauri carbon and it seems to do well. Don’t know about the multi filament setup though, he bought it before the release.
Flashforge AD5X
bought it recently, really happy with it, works completely offline without the official apps. I never once connected it to their services
“Flashforge closes ecosystem and puts AI ads into printing software”:
Thanks, very insightful.
I was looking at a mini a1 recently. What’s an alternative?
Prusa MINI
Elegoo Centauri Carbon 2
Anycubic Kobra S1
Qidi Tech Q2
Creality has gone IPO and AI, aka down the same path as Bambu. Maybe an old reliable used ender 3, but I wouldn’t but anything new from them.
Speaking of, plenty of old reliable mk3s out there.
Yep grab a mk3s from FB marketplace for like $200 and print like mad.
You could look into the Ender 3 V3 SE. I don’t know what your needs are, but it will probably work.
Just something tiny, inexpensive, beginner oriented and no drama
The newer ender printers are definitely less drama than the older ones. Unless you go higher end with them where they have bed leveling and more sensors I’d recommend something more plug and play.
Big fan of Prusa.
Voron Micron or Salad Fork kit.
I’m always a supporter of qidi, though for my next rig I’m going to go full diy.
I use Arch, btw.
I’ve been looking at getting a Sovol, specifically the SV06 Plus ACE.
I wonder what others think about them compared to some of the other options mentioned.
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So I have a Bambu printer but I don’t use it all that much. What is going on can someone give me a summary?
Classic enshitification arc. They were a fast growing startup that engineered really good printers and software. People, especially newbies flocked to them because their software was easy to use and their initial print quality was very good without any tweaking or tuning.
But they were backed by private equity, and had to start showing higher and higher returns, they started locking in users with their proprietary cloud services.
They’ve been locking users in more and more recently, and just a few weeks ago, threatened a user with legal action for posting AGPL code up on their own repo. The code enabled users to use their Bambu printers without needing to sign into Bambu’s cloud.
Now there is a big community backlash and Bambu is having to do PR damage control.
There’s talk of cloud services and apps and shit…
I only have an Ender3. Do most printers not just use a microSD card, too?
Early on this seemed a pretty simple case of corporate misbehavior, but as with most issues that blow up on social media as cartoonishly simple battles between Good and Evil, additional details reduce that comfortable clarity. Since the service Bambu Studio connects to isn’t required to run the software, their claim that keeping the service proprietary doesn’t violate the AGPL might be valid after all. This would justify their objection to Jarczak publishing a fork that connects to the service without authorization.
I doubt that this will change the main discussion tho. No amount of information matters when people only glance at an issue long enough to swipe left or right and keep doomscrollin’.
Since the service Bambu Studio connects to isn’t required to run the software, their claim that keeping the service proprietary doesn’t violate the AGPL might be valid after all.
I think you misread something. The point seems to be that to be able to use your printer you need to connect to their cloud in any case. And this happened after a firmare update.
Wrong. You can print in LAN mode, or use an SD card without even a wifi connection. Here, I googled it for you.
