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@Floppy@mastodon.me.ukThe bait-and-switch #enshittification that Bambu Labs are doing is exactly the sort of behaviour I'm trying to fight by writing @manyfold to fit into an open source #3DPrinting ecosystem alongside @octoprint, @marlinfirmware, Klipper, and more.
https://blog.bambulab.com/firmware-update-introducing-new-authorization-control-system-2/
Also, TIL that PrusaSlicer will only load via URL from Printables, while BambuStudio only loads from Makerworld OR any old AWS or Alibaba cloud bucket.
Enough with the walled gardens!!
@layered fair enough, I'm sure they did't intend to do any of those bad things. But, they gave themselves the ability to, and the future is a big place.
It sounds like the pushback is what's made them keep a LAN-only mode, which looks like it didn't take long!
So, I'm glad they listened, but I'm also glad the community kicked up a fuss about it.
@Floppy LAN only mode exists simce the launch of their devices.
@layered @Floppy yes but this *wasn't* going to be kept with this new update, they've changed that and added it back as a non-default "developer option"
I'm not an expert on their code, but I'm pretty sure the network connection to a Bambu printer still needs to use a closed source proprietary network "plugin" that the software has to download.
@layered @Floppy @manyfold @octoprint @marlinfirmware Looks like they will now keep the LAN-mode "insecure" option, although it still seems unclear *why* they need some closed box BambuConnect running locally to be able to interface to the printer. Will be interesting to see how this changes over the course of their beta, although I notice that the BambuConnect is only available for Windows and Mac, Linux being "Under Development" - always strange where a companies product is entirely based off the back of Linux developed open source code.
To be honest this has actually made me decide I should try out Orca Slicer anyway, I had been meaning to look for alternatives to BambuStudio.
