Oh come on, Reagan wasn’t a genius but Dubya was in a class of his own - and still is: 16 years later, he still manages to embarrass himself and the country.

What a clot.

On the other hand, this is what Americans want, this is what they get. Although in fairness, Dubya started the tradition of cretinous presidents.

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They already do. They’ll just grind it down with bullshit copyright lawsuits. Exhausting your opponent’s funds and patience with frivolous lawsuits is how you get rid of them in the US.

Too Long; Didn’t Watch

Bambu Lab quietly changed their blog page to gaslight dissenters and Louis exposes the discrepancy by comparing the edited page with the archived version.

You must be American to ask something like this.

America is so damn red the rest of the world looks ike a solid shade of blue.

don’t even do 3D printing

You should 🙂 It’s good fun and it’s useful.

RFID isn’t DRM. But let’s overlook that.

So the trustworthiness of the company implementing RFID doesn’t matter at all to you?

RFID-identifying rolls of filament is a good thing. I would like that very much. I can’t count the number of times I loaded the wrong roll and printed with the wrong material on our Prusa Mk4. Not to mention, I would like that the printed warned me if the roll I’ve loaded doesn’t contain enough filament to complete the print I’m about to start.

What I really would have a beef against is the printer refusing to print with anything that isn’t RFID-tagged from Bambu.

But to my knowledge, Bambu printers don’t do that. They don’t prevent you from using generic rolls do they?

Not yet anyway, but considering what a shit company Bambu Lab is, they certain could and probably will at some point. Still, for the time being, they don’t.

Is your concern the fact that they could suddenly lock Bambu printers to Bambu-approved filaments?

What if Prusa implemented RFID roll identification? Would you feel the same way?

Apparently it depends on your priorities.

If privacy, right of ownership and right to repair matter to you, then Bambu Lab printers ain’t for you. But besides that, I hear good things about those printers.

The RFID tag thing was enough to keep me from buying anything from them

Why?

Probably not. You need a good amount of heat to diffuse through the paper.

I considered buying a 3D printing pen to correct that kind of defect. But I never bothered because I realized something:

• If it’s small enough to be correctable, it’s either too small to bother, or I can correct it with a bit of filament and a hot-air gun for electronics or a soldering iron on low with an old tip - both of which I already own.
• If it’s any larger than that, usually other things in the print are messed up and it’s not worth it.

The defect in the photo - a rather large pit and fairly nasty-looking albeit flat surface in an otherwise perfect print, both of which correctable - is really quite unusual and rare enough that it doesn’t make sense to buy a 3D pen.

As for this particular print, it’s a case for my glasses and it’ll be banged around and abused all the time in my backpack. It doesn’t have to look nice: all it has to do is take impacts to protect my glasses. So the defect is fine 🙂