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[Jeff Geerling] I'm never buying a Bambu Lab 3D printer again
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this post was submitted on 12 May 2026
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Enshittification
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What is enshittification?
The phenomenon of online platforms gradually degrading the quality of their services, often by promoting advertisements and sponsored content, in order to increase profits. (Cory Doctorow, 2022, extracted from Wikitionary) source
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We discuss how predatory big tech platforms live and die by luring people in and then decaying for profit.
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We also discuss how naturally open technologies like the Fediverse can be susceptible to corporate takeovers, rugpulls and subsequent enshittification.
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Bambu Labs is sending legal threats to somebody who forked OrcaSlicer (which is based on Bambu Studio, which is itself based on other (A?)GPL software, so Bambu is forced to keep it open), accusing him of all sorts of nefarious hacking and whatnot because of what sounds like Bambu's own code that remained in the fork.
It's something related to how the slicer uses Bambu's cloud to connect to the printer, and maybe the forker removed some spyware or other misfeature Bambu put in without disabling the function entirely?
Whatever it is, it sounds like it's Bambu's own fault for being disrespectful of copyleft and incompetent at security.
Wow! That is getting even worse than before. Thanks.
I am trying to stick to my plan of never you tube again, not to mention video being a horribly slow way to convey information.
First of all, if @geerlingguy@mastodon.social had a PeerTube, I would've linked that instead. (And yes, I username-pinged him on purpose -- assuming that works between Lemmy and Mastodon? -- and I hope he takes the hint.)
Second, he does tend to have blog posts that go with his videos, so you can just read that instead: https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2026/bambu-lab-abusing-open-source-social-contract/
I should've put it in the post body; sorry. I'll do that now.
@grue @NewNewAugustEast Heh, so few people write anymore :(
I try to not only write, but I also cut down my videos to be 5-10 minutes on average, without fluff, because I like the LockPickingLaywer philosophy: respect your viewers' time.