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Bambu Lab is abusing the open source social contract

Jeff Geerling·Jeff Geerling·21 days ago
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Last year I said I'd probably never recommend another Bambu Lab printer again . I still use my P1S, but after Bambu Lab started pushing their always-connected cloud solution as the new default: I blocked the printer from the Internet via my OPNsense Firewall I stopped updating the firmware I locked the printer into Developer mode I deleted Bambu Studio and started using OrcaSlicer I had to do that to keep it under my control, instead of Bambu's. But I'm weird—I acknowledge that. I'm one of those crazy ones who likes to own something they purchased , and not have the company watch everything I do with hardware I paid for. Bambu Lab could've left the status quo at that, and I wouldn't be writing this blog post. But they didn't. What happened this time? For context: OrcaSlicer is a fork of the open source project Bambu Studio , which is a fork of Prusa Slicer , which is a fork of slic3r . (They are all licensed under the AGPLv3 open source license ).…

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