Bambu Lab 3D printer

“I see genuine designs, significant improvements in quality and price drops way beyond what cheaper labor can explain.”

“Nah, we just went with Bambu. No shade to the reprap community but my enjoyment of the hobby is with the printing of models”

“Not sure if Bambu was already hated back then for stuff like this. At least not that much, it just wasn't super open sure.”

“Everyone I know with anything else than a bambu still has regular maintenance, constant adjustment and failures. Bambu just works.”

“bambu was clawing back functionality from purchased devices, with things like timebomb lockouts and blacklisting TPU”

“I have fewer issues with my bambu 3d printer than with my (also very expensive) epson inkjet.”

“enclosed filament storage on top of printer' solution that is so much better then spools dangling on the side”

“they are not interested in opening it up, using encryption to prevent third party tags from working with their system”

“Less bambus are being sold because of this, and more printers from manufacturers that respect the open source licenses are being sold.”

“they still sell some of the best price-performance-reliability ratio printers on the market”

“I can still print from Bambu's cloud with my Bambu printer so I don't think they've changed any functionality”

“There aren’t currently any alternatives which do an equally good job of printing, except for other Bambu products.”

“if you sell a device with a certain functionality and you later modify that device later to remove that functionality that is called theft”

“"LAN/Developer Mode" is NOT EQUIVALENT to "Cloud" mode (which used to work well with OrcaSlicer until Bambu killed it).”

“the manufacturer sells something with some capabilities and later pulls the rug from under the users and decides to arbitrarily take some features away”

“Preventing paying customers from using the hardware they bought and paid for by imposing artificial restrictions is not cool.”

“Locking them into the cloud API by dangling convenient features just ensures most people won't stray into the local-only mode.”

“they actually run the computationally expensive slicing algorithm on their servers, so this is totally reasonable to protect”

“being able to remotely check in via the app is very useful to check the print hasn't failed”

“How is infra load any different between someone using their slicer build, and someone using their code in another slicer”

“They had that chance to create proper auth and api for years and many developers and myself have been asking for it.”

“Bambu is offering unrepairable black boxes that "just work" for enough time that some people can afford not to think care how it's made.”

“the behavior reported by Jeff here is just bad . They are either not understanding open source licenses or are acting in bad faith.”

“A big part of the value of their printers is that they've managed to make everything so seamless.”

“As long as they remain the lowest priced and the best, they can do whatever they want if you ask me.”

“They aren't doing anything to block OrcaSlicer or any fork from working with the printer using LAN-only mode.”

“They can easily take away later again with an OTA firmware update (and have already demonstrated they are willing to).”

“The local only mode is very good, it's not first class but for people who care its functional as all hell”

“She wanted something easy to use and reliable. The Bambu Labs printer I bought her has been just that.”

“Bambu totally delivers there. They really commoditised 3D printing and brought the price down.”

“There's just no other brand that can compete with Bambulab right now in terms of price vs performance.”

“It is definitely a philosophy you have to buy into, in the same way that people accept the iPhone's walled garden.”

“the entire ecosystem is quite ergonomic for people who don't want to fiddle with software, connections, config, permissions, etc.”

“You can use Bambu printers fully offline. All this vitriol about them is severely misplaced IMO.”

“their recent attitude just makes me think I should suffer a bit less advanced product just to not have to deal with that shit.”

“the Bambu eco-system is not ideal and they push really hard to get you to use their cloud connect”

“Bambu's latest models make the printer a device to just use rather than the project itself.”

“In hindsight, I would have been happy to spend more if I knew the quality of what I was purchasing would be high.”

“They make solid enough devices sure, but they dont exactly have a moat that would keep users buying their stuff”

“Picking up a Bambu printer a yearish ago made made all the difference in the world for me.”