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Man I was looking at one of the Bambus to supplement my old Monoprice Maker Select. I was hoping to something with less fuss.
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.
Important to note that the license they release their software under explicitly allows users to do exactly that
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?
Bambu has been adding controls to their printers to force commands from your slicer to go through their servers before being sent to your printer. This had caused some stuff to stop working, like 3rd party AMS systems.
One guy forked (copied it and made his own changes to) their code and removed the restriction. Bambu didn’t like that and threatened him to take it down, while accusing him of falsely impersonating them to make API calls to their servers.
The dude is like “I didn’t impersonate shit, I just forked your code.” Bambu’s code is just a fork of other open source software, all under an open source license. So they have no authority to tell someone not to fork their code, since it’s all open source licensed.
So a lot of people have banded together to push back against Bambu and are ready to take them to court if necessary. They see this as a step by Bambu to try to make their printers more restricted (only use their addons, their filament, go through their cloud, etc).
Has Bambu labs considered printing and then eating a bag of dicks?
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.
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.
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.
