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.

Parks usually have people in them

What’s the saying? Equality feels like oppression to the privileged?

I am a neophyte in homelabbing. What is Netbird doing exactly?

I read the github page and didn’t really understand what is the use case for that.

This is an interesting article, but the crux of the setup isn’t described : what is the configuration on your home server?

Creating a wireguard tunnel is pretty simple, but managing how everything is handled behind the VPN is more challenging.

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…

Thanks, there some new infos for me in there.

How dirty is the water leaving the cooling loop?

Do you have a link for the HK Hynix / OpenAI thing you are talking about?

Is there more detail than what we already knew a few months ago?

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.

I stopped updating my P1S (a gift I received) at 1.07.00.00 and use Orca Slicer. Best I can do in that situation.

Destiny has the best gun feel of all games. It’s a shame that the monetization is outright confusing and predatory.

I am almost 40 and have been using Linux for 3 years now and I am computer literate. However, I couldn’t tell you what exactly systemd other than vague generalities.

I feel like there isn’t a generation of nerds, just nerds in general, that use Linux deeply and are knowledgeable about Linux low level systems.

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