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Looks like Bambu is getting more enshittified. I am so glad I didn't let my recent frustration at my clumsiness with my Prusa steer me into Bambu-land.

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[–] aard@kyu.de 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

While I fully support that comment, their cloud printing thing also is annoying - I'd rather they spend effort on proper lan printing.

On my mini I'm still using octoprint (even though I've added a network card), on my mk4s I'm using the local connection for uploading - but I got the GPIO board, so once I have time that should enable me to get better monitoring working again. But it all still feels kludgy - something like enabling octoprint control via network instead of USB for the mk4 would be way nicer.

[–] mipadaitu@lemmy.world 1 points 13 hours ago

I get that it's not for everyone, but I use home assistant and prusalink to do everything the cloud prusa connect does.

It doesn't leave my network, it's connected to physical Ethernet instead of WiFi, and I have zero outside connectivity requirements.

The only drawback is that I have one extra step instead of sending directly within prusa slicer.

Honestly, it's been a better overall experience than using the cloud service, cause it doesn't need to send any data over the Internet, just to download it back down to the printer.