Or just “1.5 months”.

If it was 46 days, there will (arguably) be times where it’s less than 1.5 months.

I guess the intention is automation that updates every month, leaving you with half a month to fix issues.

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You’re not getting the point.

A: You csn shop there without an account. It’s your own choice. An account has pros and cons, and it’s your choice.

B: I don’t know how it works in US, but in my country a McDonald’s account is a fair deal to me. They pay me a fair price for some personal info. And if I go to McDonald’s and I for any reason feel like they shouldn’t register that particular visit, I just don’t use my account.

C: I want to use Windows, but logging into a Microsoft account does not give me any benefits worth the cons. So I use Windows without a Microsoft account. And it will be annoying to keep track of a “fake” account just for that.

Yep, that’s basically what I have.

I’m ready to buy a factory new car, when I find one where the data is mine.

Yes, but this is not one of those times.

Imagine someone poops on your doorstep, and then removes half of it.

You can say it’s good that they removed some of it, but that’s probably not the point you would want to make.

None of them were trying to push privacy as a competitive advantage.

This is why I don’t have a new car. I’m hoping I get one where I have access to my own data (in eg. Home Assistant), and the manufacturer doesn’t.

Most of them, probably. It’s a new requirement in EU to get 5/5 stars safety rating.

That’s also why it’s specifically 5 features - that’s the bare minimum.

If I can’t use it one-handed (using ALL physical buttons and ALL parts of the screen), then it’s not a phone.

Seriously, this is how we used to define the difference between phones and tables - one-hand or two-hand use.

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.

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.

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.