You'll be tagged as the one who thought a shitpost was serious, got corrected, and doubled down.

As much as I'm distressed to see the current situation with Bambu Lab I wouldn't consider it "falling for relentless marketing". They are/were genuinely ahead of the curve.

I've owned 3 different 3D printers before my P1S in the nearly decade I've been 3D printing (I got my first in 2017) and Bambu was the first to actually deliver on being "plug and play" when compared to the competition.

I'm hopeful the situation when my P1S kicks the bucket has changed (it may already have but I'm not in the market so I haven't checked). But for now I'm just not updating the firmware.

This is actually the slogan of WeRateDogs! https://weratedogs.com/

Physically unplugging it may not be enough and risks permanent damage. Installing a 50ohm terminator is a much safer option on all accounts and takes just about the same amount of effort as unplugging it ( ~$10 extra).

This is the guide I had used for my previous car: https://imgur.com/gallery/step-by-step-guide-to-disable-onstar-on-2022-chevy-bolt-this-is-reversible-not-permanent-n00QKnH#rGSoW34

I'm getting off a two week break. I wouldn't say I'm overwhelmed just... Exhausted by the thought.

Also think I should try week long breaks more often....

THERE'S NO LAWS AGAINST THE POKEMON BATMAN

I agree. On my normal keyboard I wouldn't even know how to produce an EM dash without looking it up. On my phone keyboard I can easily but that's just the intuitive UI.

I use hyphens all the time. I can't say I've noticed an EM dash outside a book, paper, or blog post (like, proper stylized blog).

I acknowledge that, this is the result of unbridled capitalism.

When a person uses social engineering and manipulation to extract money from an individual or company it's called fraud, when a large enough company does it it's just business.

If only our government could give us some handy dandy consumer protection laws.

Of course it's an Israeli firm that is enabling this greedy behavior. They already price gouge as it is. Can't we go back to the formula of "our cost + our profit margin adjusted for market". This bleeding the customer dry bullshit should stick in bullshit avoidable video game micro transactions.

My employer still has an IT team, and I don't think it's going anywhere. We are migrating to "the cloud" but it's slow and mainly a compliance thing so we can go global and house customer data local to them. They're looking for a strong sysadmin / database admin role if you're in the Atlanta area.

Yeah the article is disingenuous at best. There are many things wrong with generative AI, but this is just a lousy approach.

If I make a PC, put in a water cooling loop, and use it to run an LLM - sure, water is circulating, but that water isn't just vanishing lol.

One major con for Bambu is that the firmware is not open source (at least, last I checked). This puts you in a walled garden of sorts. It also can make you vulnerable, for example earlier this year a bug caused printers connected to Bambu's cloud to start prints that weren't request. You can imagine how bad that is.

This being said, I plan on my next printer upgrade being to a Bambu. I've gotten tired of the calibration game and Bambu does that well.