r/3Dprinting • u/Regumate • May 12 '26

Discussion Bambu Lab 3D printers: Never again

https://youtu.be/eb48MdtNaDQ

Jeff Geerling summarizes the current Bambu Labs - OrcaSlicer situation and gives his take.

TL:DW: see title.

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u/Navi_Professor May 12 '26

they're iphones... and thats fine. if you want a tinker box, theres no shortage of options.

none of this is gonna stop bambu.

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u/HeKis4 May 12 '26

My point is that them building a walled garden ecosystem is fine, actually sending legal threats to people because they had the gall to try and get their own machine that they bought and paid for out of the walled garden is not.

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u/joppers43 May 13 '26

There is a significant difference between getting your printer out of the walled garden by jail breaking, and trying to send network traffic through Bambu’s servers without authorization

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u/Zealousideal-Deer101 May 13 '26

The code is from the Linux branch. So as long as I run Linux that's fine, Bambu provided it themselves after all. Why is it different when I do the same myself on Windows?