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Oh crikey - I def didn’t drink the flavor-aid. I bought the printer, I’m using it stock with BS to start with and so far it seems acceptable to me. I loved orca and am very willing to make environment changes the moment this setup doesn’t meet my needs. I’m just pleasantly surprised that it’s not the all-but-guaranteed shit show the transition was made out to be.

For a philistine member of the proletariat like me - just wanting to fix shit that’s broken or bust out practical shit - it fits the bill for me. It’s not a McLaren, I bought the Hyundai.

Same page with local LAN mode and non-Bambu filaments. I want the outcome not the process.

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Bluewing@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
As a knuckle dragging Philistine also, I own one too, so I speak from personal experience. I like mine as a printer that currently works well also.

But, forewarned is forearmed as they say.

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sbeak@sopuli.xyz ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
But they are locking down on their ecosystem. After blocking third-party hardware (like Panda Touch displays) and third-party software (like OrcaSlicer if you don’t have the LAN only “Developer Mode” hidden deep in the settings), what is stopping them from going further? What if they go do an HP and make it so that non-Bambu filaments don’t work oj Bambu printers with just a firmware update?? They already have the RFID tags in place so it’s quite literally just a software switch they could do. Or what if they blocked third-party replacement parts, like how Apple did once they became a market leader?

I am speaking as a person who owns a Bambu A1 myself. It prints okay, but I do not like the locking down of the ecosystem and have currently set my printer to LAN only mode on the v4.0.0.0 firmware to continue using OrcaSlicer. I personally wouldn’t recommend a Bambu anymore (see Sovol’s SV line, Prusa’s high-quality offerings, Qidi Q1 Pro, Creality’s lineup that even has their own version of AMS, and now even Elegoo with their Centauri Carbon), but if it’s what you got, I would recommend setting it to LAN only mode to be able to continue using third-party slicers (like OrcaSlicer) and to stop additional Bambu firmware updates from possibly blocking even more functionality for profits.

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