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I remember reading someone getting taken down because they were asking how to extrude instead of pad while they were on the ‘part design’ workbench

Why are those even two different things at all?!

Those two would probably never have gotten started if not for how easy the Bambus are. It took me a month to get decent results off my first printer and they were up and running in a few hours tops.

I've got to admit, I've never understood that sort of issue. I've owned two 3D printers, a Monoprice MP Select Mini (bought back when it was the only 'cheap' printer in existence... holy shit, probably almost a decade ago) and a Creality Ender 3 V3 SE (because it was the best 'cheap' printer as of a couple years ago), and both of them gave me decent prints pretty much out of the box. After bed leveling, obviously, but without any other weird hardware adjustment or excessive experimentation with slicer settings.

I feel like the vaunted 'superior ease of use' of the Bambu stuff is overblown, but IDK, maybe I've just been lucky.

Q: "How have you dealt with this?"

A: Poorly.

Retrofitting infotainment on your terms is entirely different from dealing with it preinstalled in a new car. For example, I'm betting yours doesn't have an unskippable popup warning about paying attention to the road that you have to dismiss every time you turn on the car. Or telemetry that rats out your driving behavior to the manufacturer and/or the insurance company and/or law enforcement. Or other sorts of adware or malware.

And considering that you had to add it to begin with, it definitely doesn't disable the entire car if you try to remove it or otherwise neuter the hostile misfeatures.

Even in the context of having only experienced certain other CAD software a little bit (e.g. SolidEdge for one class in college, SketchUp for making maybe a handful of models, total), FreeCAD really is worse to use. It's not just the UI, (although it is partly that and it is genuinely worse, not just neutrally different), it's that stuff just starts breaking whenever you try to do anything even slightly complex (even after the "topological naming fix"), and that the workflow is just annoyingly internally inconsistent.

For example, you can make a sketch and then apply constraints to it and it's all well and good, but then you extrude it and suddenly you have to declare the height by setting the properties of the extrude instead of using a constraint or dimension. I assume there's some kind of workaround involving declaring variables in the data table thing I can't remember the name of or how to access right now, but it shouldn't have to be that way. You ought to be able to do things like create a cube by declaring an X edge to be the same length as a Y edge to be the same length as a Z edge using the same tool to set both relationships.

And this is coming from somebody who refuses to use proprietary CAD as a matter of principle at this point, and therefore really, really wants to like FreeCAD.

I don't know if that's real or just a high-quality photoshop, but either way I'm impressed.

What exactly is wrong with Chromium?

It gives Google hegemony over web standards.

I like "I Like To Make Stuff" on Youtube, but it annoys the Hell out of me that he plugs Autodesk Fusion 360 all the time (to the point that he even sells his own course teaching how to use it). On the bright side, at least he uses Prusa instead of Bambu, but still, the Autodesk shilling is almost enough to make me quit watching his channel.

Sorry, I meant to write PeerTube in the first place, not FreeTube. I just forgot the name of the damn thing.

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.

https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:476016

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.