Yes, it IS a big deal. Someone was hired to do the translation. Either by hand, or quality-check machine translation.

That someone is either not very good at English, or don’t have time to do it right.

And this is where my nostalgia kicks in. Why aren’t people doing it right anymore. Why is it so often just good enough to not get too many complaints. And why do we keep buying for these low quality services and products, instead of spending our money on fewer better products.

And yes, I know I’m part of the problem. I can get an X that seems good. Or I can get another X that seems almost as good, and the savings is enough to pay the airplane ticket to see my family on another continent. At least if I use the cheapest airline…

Yeah, it seems like “developer mode” is pretty much just “old fashion mode”. If they do it right, it looks like a solution to me.

But doing it right includes making it offially supported.

Great.

1: How do I get an RTSP or ONVIF? Every time I try to buy one, the stuff that is recommended is no longer available, or practically only available in US. (I haven’t checked in months maybe years, but this is where I usually get stuck.)

2: So I get a camera, and I have an rpi or PC-based server with storage. I can see a stream, but that’s just an extra eye. How do I turn this into a surveillance camera, so I get a notification when there’s movement, and an archive of people in the monitored area?

I’m hoping all the noise makes BL rethink sone choices before the new firmware goes live.

At best, they will change their mind enough that we don’t loose anything significant, and we can just keep our printers.

Then all we have to consider is if we trust BL enough to buy more printers from them. Or even if we want to buy their filament.

3D printing is not as strong as injection molding the same material in the same shape.

But you can beef it up. You can 3D print stuff much bulkier than injection molding can do.

If you really want to, you can also use stronger materials.

Also, even the weakest cheapo stuff you can get is plenty strong for most stuff people are printing.

Knowing about what makes a part strong or weak helps a lot.

Same with æg. I can get 10 cage-free æg for 18,- kr incl tax, which is 2.49 USD.

This is the answer. They are bridges to support the next layer.

It is a stainless steel nozzle, but the real problem is that it’s not just the nozzle, it’s either “hotend” with cooling ribs etc, with lots of fiddling to connect wires etc, or “complete hotend” that also comes with a fan so more of the wires are already connected.

See https://us.store.bambulab.com/products/bambu-hotend-p1-series?variant=40923060797576

I wish they did like Prusa where you can also buy assembly, but they have one that is basically an adapter so you can use any regular cheap nozzle.

It’s a P1S. A nozzle that is hard/cumbersome to change is 15 USD. One that is almost as easy to change as a regular nozzle is 35 USD.

Add shipping costs, maybe taxes, the fact that they can have crazy delays…

I remember on my old printer I’d by a bag of nozzles even if I didn’t need them. But on a Bambu… Yeah, I’d try to salvage the nozzle too.

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Okay, I think I’ll try it.

I don’t have problems with blind spots, so I don’t have much incentive to change anything.

But I need to be able to see my own car (or at least very close to it) while reversing, and my car doesn’t adjust the mirrors when going into reverse. Which means I have a big incentive to not use their idea.

So no, I am not planning on trying it.

You are arguably being insulted and neglected.

Forever is a long time. I’m sad I won’t get upgrades, but I didn’t expect any when I bought it. I’ll be fine for a while.

When I feel that big an itch for a new thing, I’ll buy a new thing. Probably something Prusa branded.

I assume it does. If I had a big problem with that, I wouldn’t have connected it to the internet in the first place.

However, the talk about disabling printers without this update makes me think I should probably block it.

I wouldn’t buy a new Bambu now. But the one I have has a LAN only option, and i assume it will keep it as long as I don’t upgrade my firmware.

I don’t see how they would disable my printer without updating firmware. Maybe I should block all internet communication just to be sure.

But this particular RFID has some sort of encryption-something, that means that other companies can’t make them.

I don’t like it, but since I can still use other brands without the convenience of RFID tags, it’s not a deal-breaker.

I care. I bought Bambu anyway, because there’s a LAN only option. I enabled it today. I am also not going to upgrade firmware.

- Are you two ladies from Londen?

- Wales

- Okay, are you two whales from London?

I believe it does.

Here in Denmark, it’s legal to circumvent piracy protection, if the purpose is to legally use the product.

The example that was used in the media when this was new, is when you buy a DVD and want to play it on a PC instead of a DVD player. Usually piracy protection would stop it from working on a PC. Of course the circumvention also makes it easy to make and distribute a pirate copy.

So the ability to use the product in the way the customer choose (within reason), is weighted higher than stopping piracy a little.