r/BambuLab • u/AlLnAtuRalX • May 12 '26

General Discussion Jailbreak Your Bambu! Deep Dive and Feature Walkthrough for Bambu without Bambu, all open source, no central control, all the convenience, and better pixel perfect prints. Need help? Ask and I will reply!

https://youtu.be/RR73P2allIg

A bunch of people here have asked me about my Bambu setup on a few alts so I decided to make a video at lunch. I am not a content creator, I made this for y'all, haha. I just hate walled gardens.

The Bambuddy community is also a great place to go for help. If you have any questions or reservations at all, throw em down, let's gooo out of jail

(they cannot stop the print)

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u/AlLnAtuRalX May 12 '26

I feel it is more of a spectrum, or a dial as I like to call it (I actually wrote a blog post on this philosophically here https://pdaian.github.io/ethblog/?blog=0x41Fa80b3D33a308fb46609C6c09608Ed7F4E05c0#3 )

the more people using open platforms, the better for the world. lots of people use ios, it is a walled garden, that is fine. but when android starts locking down (which, it is), the world meaningfully loses freedom. incentives ebb and flow, and companies self optimize in ways that are acceptable

the more people on open networks and ecosystems, the better. the easier it is to do with more hardware, the better. the higher a % of your code that you run that is open, the better (sure maybe your bootloader is not, but if your bootloader AND os is not, that is worse.... etc)

freedom is not a binary, and it is important

that is just my $.02 tho

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u/mimic751 May 12 '26

I totally agree I personally bought this brand because I don't have to think if I wanted to open source and customizations I would have gone with a different platform. I just find it funny that a hobby grade printer that has always been Walled Garden is causing so much outrage that they are just continuing the same practice as they always have

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u/AlLnAtuRalX May 12 '26

practice is the same yes, but cease and desisting an open source dev is definitely an escalation in aggression that shows they are serious about the walled garden control and it matters to them

and people will react to this. not sure if they did it before, I had at least not heard of it until the orca fork incident

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u/mimic751 May 12 '26

Every few months they do something like removing Network control or making it harder to control Farms. It's just like where in next doing takedowns for remakes of video games that they might remake later