Its pretty much this, nothing seems to be blocking any third party slicer like Orca from working with bambu printers as they are now.. just the print button would now send the file to Bambu Connect, where you would most likely only press an extra button..
Getting info from the printer or AMS? MQTT still works. They specifically said they are not touching that.
Sadly the usual groups of people are screaming, and the open printer people are laughing. But at worst.. this is just friction.
Anyone pointing this out seems to get downvoted. But its all there in the bambu press statement and subsequent pages. Those that are upset seemed to have not read those, and instead just read or watched something inflammatory.
> just the print button would now send the file to Bambu Connect, where you would most likely only press an extra button..
Today it's just one extra button press. In 5-10 years when they shut down the servers for Bambu Connect nobody would be able to print anything at all. It's only because people were vocal in their complaints that their unsupported dev mode was made an option that would let people continue to use what they paid for
Did you happen to see this? Interesting development, they are basically going to keep the current wide-open-barely-auth'd state and call it a developer mode. And submitted a PR to make Orca Slicer work with the new auth: https://blog.bambulab.com/updates-and-third-party-integratio...
And yeah, I'm realizing that about the downvotes. It's sad the state of things, but SKY-IS-FALLING-GET-PITCHFORKS wins the day over technical analysis, even on purportedly technical forums. But alas, that's an aside.
I'm really looking forward to this rolling out, as I want to monitor my printer with Home Assistant but I /really/ don't like how much control the current (non-beta, non-future) state gives HA. I /want/ auth of some sort when submitting jobs, and it looks like I'll have that.
(I also really want the slicer decoupled from the print management stuff, because I tend to keep a few slicers open and experiment.)
My understanding is that the "addition" of the developer mode (basically the current status quo) is the result of the feedback/pitchforking. I don't believe that was originally planned.
Indeed. The blazingly fast speeds of compiling all of the elements that make up arch from scratch (just to say "I use Gentoo"), over that of just using the iso always amazes me.
Only a few years more of my life lost to check all of the code of Linux and ensure I know what is running. I'm not bitter about and looking for better solutions to that at all.
So I'm a distance runner, who is on these drugs.. and yeah, It sucks, I LOVE running.. but running heavy SUCKS. Most people run to lose weight, I lose weight to run.
honest to god i wish i knew what it was like to be like you —i have always hated every step of a run, and im halfway convinced the notion of a runners high is a convenient fiction cooked up by nike.
There are a few things that happen here, but the most common one is not having someone helping you with form, and running much too fast. If you talk to a physical therapist and run with a distance runner and have them help you keep your heart rate in zone 2, you will probably feel much better.
This took me a long time to figure out: it's ok to not like running. There are other forms of physical activity that may appeal more to you, which you can do in place of running. I'm personally into biking, which gets me more than enough exercise.
Second the other commenter. Measure your heart rate and stay within a lower zone.
Most likely this means you will be walk-running at the beginning or even just walking up a steep hill.
Running is an activity of many small incremental gains. Every week you can go a little tiny bit further but if you amortize that over a year it makes a big difference.
Many go into running too fast and hard which leads them into not liking it because they feel absolutely miserable the entire time or they injure themselves due to bad form.
I had a good physical therapist which took me from nothing and for the first few months I wasn’t even running but doing foot and ankle strengthening because that part of my kinetic chain was so weak.
I've been running distance most my life. I stopped when my wife had our first kid to concentrate on working hard and give her as much time off from the kid as I could, then after 6 years I had enough and started running. Two years ago, I hadn't been losing any weight, and I was put on these drugs to help me.
I lost more weight.
I run, walk, and move more than you imagine. It didn't work, but these drugs worked.
Not everything is black and white or fits into your preconceived notions.
I've been on wegovy for almost two years now, and I can attest to how much you just DONT want to eat junk anymore. It's one of the most commonly talked about things we discuss with other users over the last few years. That and lower want to drink, and gaining back so much of energy/time due to not having to think about food every 3 seconds of the day.
I'm super satisfied just having an apple or two now. The "omg I need to eat, ohh a burger" is gone.
I'm not arguing at all here but just wanted to say, I've noticed similar effects just focusing on eating healthier over the last few years. I haven't taken anything to help I just wanted to stop eating poorly and now adays it's not "shove the entire box of cookies in my mouth" it's "have 1 cookie and don't finish it because it's too rich" and I haven't eaten fast food in as long as I can remember. I used to see a McDonald's french fry commercial or just think about them and need McDonald's. Now I see it and go "ah they were good but eh" and move on with my life.
Saying this as probably the biggest Java fanboy I know: they are pretty bad. Gradle is pretty much the worst build system Ive used. IntelliJ might as well be folded into the JDK, because I don't think it's possible to be productive in Java without it.
This reminds me of exploits we used to do to arcade cabinets back in Sydney in the 80's and 90s. The school gas heaters used to have what we called "clickers", piezoelectric ignition devices you could remove from the heaters.
You then took that clicker to your local arcade, and clicked one of the corners of the CRT, that would send a shock through the system and add credits to your game. I believe this was because the CRT was grounded on the same ground lines that the mechanism for physically checking a coin had gone through the system.
Suffice to say, they caught onto this over time, and added some form of an alarm into it. But up until then... Those were truly the best times.
We did the exact same thing early 80's except that we used the clicker found in disposal lighters.
We did it for a couple of years until they figured it out and started to conver the arcade cabinets with transparent plastic.
At the same time they also drilled holes at the back of the machine for ventilation as the rest of the case now was sealed in plastic.
We found out that using a bamboo stick you could press the lever that register when a coin has been paid into the slot.
That made them relocate the holes for the ventilation to the top of the case instead of the back so we couldn't get the lever anymore. Or so they thought. haha
We discovered that by pressing a coin up the return slot — the one where you get your coin back if it isn’t accepted — you could also trigger the lever for coin registration and the free gaming continued.
Eventually they put in sharp screws into that coin return box so you would cut your finges.
At what point does the arcade just kick you out? I can't imagine them seeing you continuously tamper with their equipment to circumvent paying and think, "the best way to handle this is to keep modifying our machines."
Arcades were big dark noisy rooms, and quite often had only one or two people on staff who were usually either busy dealing with other customers and were paid far too little to care about the owners' profit margins. They were basically there to hand out prizes to little kids for the ticket machines and make sure nobody walked out with Dig Dug on a hand cart.
In our case the arcades was in a ajourning room to our local cinema with no staff present and no CCTV so we had plenty of time to fiddle with the machines.
Maybe the staff at the arcade, aren't the owners of the place, so they don't personally care that much. They'd rather be friends with everyone, than to be the "angry police"? (And I'm guessing the tampering players were nice people to have around)
And the technicians "improving" the machines -- maybe they had a good time too, I'm wondering. @TowerTall and friends made their job more interesting / fun?
If you kick someone out, you lose them as a customer, and they'll tell all their friends about the free play trick out of spite, so you'll have to patch the machine anyway.
You're making me wonder what the stats are for how many people try to abuse arcade machines in a country like Japan versus the United States. (Not that people in any country are gonna be entirely honest, but the entitlement to break the system and the comfort to brag about it seems cultural.)
In fact, that could be why some of the machines weren't better protected against that stuff in the first place, right?
There are some great scenes in Rebels of the Neon God [1992] by Tsai Ming-Liang (Taiwanese filmmaker) where the main characters steal the main pcbs from some arcade machines and try to resell them to the arcade owner lol. Wonderful film, recommend it - some great scenes in those arcades.
Reminds me of an arcade machine a friend would get behind, turn it off and back on, and it would give you a free token. Maybe its designed that way so the employee can test it for free, not sure. But he climbed behind it, and proceeded to play for free.
Those who lived in USSR remembers soda vending machines (they poured your drink in a glass cup; you were expected to wash it before using by pressing on a cup, which stood upside down on plastic plate with holes, kinda inverted shower head; very unhygienic, I know). Well it had a button behind that let you have a free drink. You could also "upgrade" pure carbonated water (1 kopeyek) to a sweet soft drink (3 kopeyek) by pressing another button. needless to say schoolchildren would abuse the hell out of this "feature".
> you were expected to wash it before using by pressing on a cup, which stood upside down on plastic plate with holes, kinda inverted shower head; very unhygienic, I know
Those systems are occasionally used in bars in the US, though they've dropped the whole plate and it's usually just arms where the holes are.
To my understanding, at least in the US, they aren't used for deep-cleaning anything. That happens with soap and water in the back still. The upside-down-showers are used to clean out the dregs of someone's glass when they get a refill (you give them a glass, they give it a quick rinse, refill it and hand it back), and as a quick rinse for new glasses to clean up water stains/detergent residue and anything that might have fallen in since they were cleaned (hair, dust, etc).
Yes right, the key difference that the were used to clean between uses by different customers; this is clearly insufficient; at least because a good deal of customers - drunks, children, people with mental issues would not wash at all before use, a good vector for disease spread. Late USSR I happen to remember always had problems with hepatitis spread, which is considerably less of a problem today, due to adoption of disposable food containers/utensils.
Its been a long time since I worked in a bar, but in the front-of-house we used a three-sink station where the sinks were: soap, water, sanitizing-solution. Then you sit the glasses to drip-dry.
I've seen something like this in the Netherlands, although even more disgusting: They take the used glass, dunk it in a bucket that has brushes all around and in the middle and is full of soapwater, rotate the glass three times against the glass, take it out, and pour the beer in the glass.
Yes, the glass's sides are still full of the disgusting soapwater from the bucket that's now basically 95% other people's drink dregs.
I certainly won't be first in line for that beer, but I'd wager that from a hygiene perspective they're cleaner than the door. It takes surprisingly little to sanitize dishes; that 3 part system is basically lightly scrubbing twice, and then either using a sanitizer or 30 seconds or more in water over 171F.
From a health perspective, I'd be more worried about the leftover sanitizer in the water in the glass. Bleach is pretty common, and it's honestly a tossup whether I'd rather drink someone else's dregs or bleach. It's probably the dregs, I'll take a stomach flu over melting my stomach lining with chronic low-grade bleach exposure.
I think for beer there's a reason of bringing the glass to a colder temperature, which (from what I've heard) should reduce the amount of foam (not sure that's the exact term) in the glass.
Oh, are the lines refrigerated or otherwise thermally controlled? I always presumed it was regular tapwater; i.e. probably slightly below room temp, but not much.
Mileage obviously varies, but the "beer nerd/snob" bars I've been to simply don't re-use glasses without a full wash. They'd rather just charge a little more to hire more dishwashers and be able to absolutely guarantee that there's no leftover beer/water in your glass when they refill it, and that the glass is refrigerated if that's something they want.
I've always heard the head/foam had more to do with how you pour the beer (more impact/movement = more foam), but it makes sense that temperature affects it as well. There's some kind of official course on how to pour Guinness to get the correct head on it. I don't remember the whole thing, but it was something about holding the glass the correct distance from the tap and tilting it so that the beer "slides" down the side of the glass rather than a direct perpendicular impact with the beer already in the glass (which makes more foam).
For Weizen beer, you always give the glass a quick rinse beforehand to get rid of detergent remains, so you can actually get a foam "crown" - if there is even the tiniest amount of detergent present, the foam collapses.
I believe some of those early arcade games were more electrical engineering than software engineering, so perhaps it was easier to set it up that way?
To my understanding some of those early arcade games also had jumpers to control some of the behavior. It could be that a tech set the "free credit on reboot" jumper and forgot to reset it when they were done.
This also worked in the USA. By the 1990s most arcades operated on proprietary tokens rather than coin currency. Many had skill-gambling machines that had sliding rows covered in tokens, that you would try to dislodge with your own tokens and keep what was displaced.
The "Jungle Jive" version of this would dispense tokens out the opposite side of the machine if the electric ignition of a cigarette lighter was used to lightly shock the metal intake slot. If you clicked it too much too quickly it would go into an alert mode. While this could be accomplished solo, the ideal MVP setup was a team of three: one scout to watch for employees, one to click, and one to collect.
I imagine (with zero research) that the mechanism for adding credit would be the coin goes through a slot, and either itself completed a circuit, or the coin as it travels moves some lever to complete a circuit. So I imagine if you hit the machine just right, you'd also move that lever.
I remember when Verizon phone booths in the US started accepting the credit cards, for a while they would accept any 16-digit number with a valid IIN that passed the Luhn check.
Toronto’s parking meter boxes were like this. They just had GPRS so they’d do an overnight dump (possibly a part of their data deal with the telecom back when data was actually saturated during the day).
So people were using cancelled or empty prepaid visa/mastercards.
Initially they’d just push out blacklists.
Once they really caught on, they did a firmware upgrade to do online verification and it took fooooreeeeveeeeerrrrr to do a credit card purchase.
I vaguely remember (sometime in the 80s) sticking a straightened paperclip into a small hole on the face of a payphone to avoid having to drop a dime / quarters, and being able to call anywhere.
If I recall, you’d stick the straightened paperclip into one of the holes on the mouthpiece and touch the other end of the paperclip to some metal part on main phone body.
War Games used a pull tab from an aluminum can to a similar effect?
Children in a large group that's unsupervised is about as close to infinite monkeys on infinite typewriters as you can get. If you present them with a challenge that has some tangible reward at the other end (free games), you are guaranteed a solution at some point.
The universe's RNG just happened to roll favourably in Sydney in the 90s and the rest is history.
Reminds me of the story of the kids in Ethiopian village that were given tablets by One Laptop Per Child. The kids had figured out how to turn it on within minutes, in five days they were using 47 apps per child, in two weeks they were singing the English alphabet, and then within five months they had hacked Android. https://www.theregister.com/2012/11/01/kids_learn_hacking_an...
It's not making bad, it's making cheaper/faster. They probably hired less experimented developers or didn't give them proper time to implement the features they wanted.
The costs involved with maintaining garbage are infinitely more than maintaining something well built.
This is why software is so lucrative.. because the true cost of the software isn't how much you pay for it .. it's "how much is it going to cost you to change to something else?"
Yes, I loved MIP models too. I'm really annoyed that the last Gramin Forerunner watch with an MIP display was 955, and it's now discontinued and was recently removed from Garmin's website. All their new models have OLED, and I kind of understand as it looks better indoors but wastes a huge amount of battery when used outside.
I would have preferred they investigate some of these newer LCD screens that can work reflectively and optionally with backlights on.
I'm a long distance runner. So my requirements are slightly different than the average person. But that said. It seems to me Garmin's strategy is clear, the Forerunner and even the Fenix lines are going to be OLED. Where as the Enduro is the MIP line.
Sure there's a MIP Fenix 8, but I feel like that might be something that eventually goes as more people who are newer to sports watches, the people transitioning over from Apple or Google watches.. those people who see 7 days battery life and think "wow" where as we look at the GPS always on time and think "more please".
The absolute pick of this generation is the Enduro 3 now. It's cheaper, lasts waaaaay longer, and does everything we want. Fenix 8? Dive computer, and the ability to take calls? No thanks. I just want more battery life, and better solar thanks.
Yep, I had a cheaper MIP garmin watch that I was very happy with until it spontaneously bricked itself one day. It was just barely in warranty, and they replaced it, but refused to give me an equivalent replacement and instead sent the newer OLED model in the same lineup. It's... fine, but the battery life is abysmal with the always-on display and just OK without.
Getting info from the printer or AMS? MQTT still works. They specifically said they are not touching that.
Sadly the usual groups of people are screaming, and the open printer people are laughing. But at worst.. this is just friction.
Anyone pointing this out seems to get downvoted. But its all there in the bambu press statement and subsequent pages. Those that are upset seemed to have not read those, and instead just read or watched something inflammatory.
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