I don’t really see the point. I mean, why bother to try to do something that just makes the company’s printers more desirable? Even if you “win”, the company is going to be a pain in the ass. Do you really want to waste time and financial resources on improving the company’s product?
Just don’t buy Bambu Lab printers. Don’t recommend them. And don’t support them with software.
If this was a world in which there was one 3D printer manufacturer, it’d be different, but it’s not. They have competition.
Because what Bamboo has done is screw over existing customers. People want their printers back to the way they baught it. They shouldn’t have to throw their printers in the trash because the manufacture decided to changed the conditions.
If you buy a car with heated seats and 3 years later, the manufacture decided to disable your heated seats unless you paid a subscription, you’d be pretty upset.
If you buy a car with heated seats and 3 years later, the manufacture decided to disable your heated seats unless you paid a subscription, you’d be pretty upset.
It’s sad that this isn’t even an unrealistic example
It technically is because the subscription was supposed to be available if you did NOT order the car with heated seats. Idk if they ever actually went through with it.
This makes Bambu even worse than BMW which is an accomplishment to say the least
Tech companies do this every week. It’s like a trade agreement with Trump. Both agree and sign a EULA, then they just throw it out.
Cricut did this with their systems. Fucking legal because of shit laws.
Sure, I’d like that, but I’m not going to keep personally fighting to make life better for that manufacturer’s customers. Not when there are other car manufacturers that aren’t pulling that stuff that people can be directed to.
Is the message you want to send “if you buy product from a vendor who actively goes out of their way to dick over open-source developers, it probably won’t matter for me as a customer because those developers will keep expending time and accepting legal risk to try to improve the situation for those customers”? Or do you want it to be “you probably want to look for open-source friendly manufacturers”?
This is in response to Bambu labs enshittifying with post-sale software updates and cloud changes.
When the printers were sold they had functions that were removed in later firmware updates. This software is re-enabling those features, some of which still exist in the firmware but were hidden from the user with a software update.
It’s not such much that the developer is trying to improve Bambu Lab’s value proposition as they are trying to make the printer that they paid for work like it did when they bought it.
As someone with a BL P2S I really appreciate other people helping with this fight. I won’t buy another BL product but I’d like to keep using the one I already have.
I don’t really see the point. I mean, why bother to try to do something that just makes the company’s printers more desirable? Even if you “win”, the company is going to be a pain in the ass. Do you really want to waste time and financial resources on improving the company’s product?
Just don’t buy Bambu Lab printers. Don’t recommend them. And don’t support them with software.
If this was a world in which there was one 3D printer manufacturer, it’d be different, but it’s not. They have competition.
Bambu did the biggest own-goal I have seen in decades. Meanwhile, at Snapmaker…
Because what Bamboo has done is screw over existing customers. People want their printers back to the way they baught it. They shouldn’t have to throw their printers in the trash because the manufacture decided to changed the conditions.
If you buy a car with heated seats and 3 years later, the manufacture decided to disable your heated seats unless you paid a subscription, you’d be pretty upset.
It’s sad that this isn’t even an unrealistic example
It technically is because the subscription was supposed to be available if you did NOT order the car with heated seats. Idk if they ever actually went through with it.
This makes Bambu even worse than BMW which is an accomplishment to say the least
Tech companies do this every week. It’s like a trade agreement with Trump. Both agree and sign a EULA, then they just throw it out. Cricut did this with their systems. Fucking legal because of shit laws.
Sure, I’d like that, but I’m not going to keep personally fighting to make life better for that manufacturer’s customers. Not when there are other car manufacturers that aren’t pulling that stuff that people can be directed to.
Is the message you want to send “if you buy product from a vendor who actively goes out of their way to dick over open-source developers, it probably won’t matter for me as a customer because those developers will keep expending time and accepting legal risk to try to improve the situation for those customers”? Or do you want it to be “you probably want to look for open-source friendly manufacturers”?
This is in response to Bambu labs enshittifying with post-sale software updates and cloud changes.
When the printers were sold they had functions that were removed in later firmware updates. This software is re-enabling those features, some of which still exist in the firmware but were hidden from the user with a software update.
It’s not such much that the developer is trying to improve Bambu Lab’s value proposition as they are trying to make the printer that they paid for work like it did when they bought it.
As someone with a BL P2S I really appreciate other people helping with this fight. I won’t buy another BL product but I’d like to keep using the one I already have.
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