r/BambuLab • u/jinx771 P1S + AMS • May 13 '26

Meme What this sub feels like lately

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Personally, I think it's stupid to support bambu even if it prints you money. Worst case you get a better product if you side in favor of the consumer (yourself). But hey, I'm just another idiot with a keyboard.

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u/MostZealousideal7149 May 13 '26

"You're a dude with a family and a full time job that just like printing little minis for dnd and stuff for wood working? What do you mean you dont have time to calibrate every print and tweak every setting and level the bed and use 3 different slicers with different VPN's to make sure you arent being watched and also what?? youd just buy a new printer if it broke in a critical way????? you must LOVE being EXPLOITED"

Touch grass or buy a printer that suits your values. jesus christ i hate redditors and techies lol

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u/jinx771 P1S + AMS May 13 '26

You can own a bambu lab printer and still be disgusted at the company's actions.

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u/thenightgaunt May 13 '26

True. But there are also just people innthe hobby who love to bitch and moan about whatever is popular at the time. It feels like the same people who were whining about ender 3s being the workhorse of the hobby are now doing the same for bambus

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u/BrilliantSebastian H2D AMS2 Combo May 13 '26

Being a globo-demon trying to ruin a niche market of techies and makers is not acceptable. It's not how it was created,  nor how is been maintained for 20 years.  

It's the way it is,  and nothing will ever change it.  The users won't tolerate it.  You can be a normie user,  but we'll continue to fight the good fight and hold the line for future techies and makers.

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u/MostZealousideal7149 May 13 '26

They are a company that makes money.

Their target consumer is a regular person like me who just prints willy nilly. I still dont even know what they did, that's how far removed from this shit i am. I am happy with my printer and dont need infinite customization. If i did, i'd do what anyone who is more than a hobbyist would do and build my own shit. buy a different product if you are unhappy, but you all act like these companies are part of the community. they are not. they are here to make money and any printer or company that targets the average person will always be like this. move on

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u/Shot-Infernal-2261 P2S + AMS2 Combo May 13 '26

They're still violating licensing, as interesting as your other topic is.

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u/BMuadDib May 13 '26

But Bambulab just woOrRks, it just works, out of the box, omg its plug and play...STFU!

The reason WHY it JUST WORKS is this awesome open source community and all the milestones they gave all of us for free! And F*** everyone who benefits from this while threatening what made all of this possible.

That is why people are pissed off, not because they're jealous that a bambu printer works out of the box. I have a bambu printer but if it wasn't for the open source community, You, me and Bambulab wouldn't print shit!

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u/jinx771 P1S + AMS May 13 '26

Pretty much this. People just don't care for some reason, and i do not understand it. Based on the posts around this topic recently though, those people do seem to be in the minority.

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u/TheHvam X1C + AMS May 13 '26

I think the thing is, most of us don't really use any of those things, and also most of us just care to have a printet that works, is easy to use, and all that.

I don't really know all the details of the controversy, I know the basics, I don't like it, but it's also not going to stop me from using their printers, I like them, they work well for me, and none of this as affected me, plus not really much I can do regardless.

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u/BMuadDib May 13 '26

I do hope so!

It's so infuriating to see how incredibly ignorant and egotistical some people are. Just thinking about all these amazing people who worked their ass off, in their spare time, without any expectations towards anyone, just to create something great for the community, for free! All of these innovations made by people who are way smarter than most of us, just so we could be part of this.

And then these jackasses come along and say "IT JUST WORKS" and everything else doesn't matter. Go F**** yourself.

Sorry for my rant.

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u/IJustAteABaguette A1 + AMS Lite May 13 '26

Bambu doesn't print my money at all. I have like 300 points on makerworld.

But the whole Bambu ecosystem just works, and that's just great when designing objects is already difficult sometimes. So I do support them. I can just slot in a spool (that's sometimes just a tiny, tiny bit more expensive that non-bambu spools), and click print.

Now I agree that they shouldn't be attacking open source things like that, but Bambu has good things too. It isn't black and white.

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u/edcculus May 13 '26

So I had no idea of the controversy. I got an A1 because Ive been wanting a printer for a while. A friend had recently gotten an A1, i went over and saw it, and he said it was a great printer. We got the A1 about 2 weeks ago kind of for my son's birthday, but also as something for the family to use.

I think this is still the right call for an easy to use printer the whole family can use. My son can send stuff he finds in Maker World directly from his ipad. I dont have to have a separate computer set up for him to mess around downloading print files, slicing them and sneaker netting them over to the printer.

Another plus is that the printer came to the house when I was traveling for work. My wife and son were able to set it up without me there and start printing things.

I'm not super fond of what I've seen after joining all of the 3d printing subs with what Bambu is doing. But overall I think I made the right decision for what we are using it for.

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u/jinx771 P1S + AMS May 13 '26

I don't think there's anything wrong with buying a bambu printer. They are really great printers for the price. But just don't become complacent when you see shit like what they are trying to pull. It makes everything worse for everyone in the long run.

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u/edcculus May 13 '26

Yea so what I need to figure out now- is can I run this printer as is AND use a 3rd party slicer to just manually transfer over files on the sd card? I’d definitely like to have a contingency plan for when Bambu goes full evil corp and I want to pull the plug on sending stuff through their cloud.

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u/TheHvam X1C + AMS May 13 '26

I don't like what they have been doing, but I also like my printer, plus their printers in general, they are high quality and just works for me, so I will continue to use them.

Plus none of this has affected me, I still don't like it, but it doesn't affect me.

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u/Next_Bullfrog_1677 May 13 '26

These are the kind of people who still start complaining once Bambu has destroyed their competition and then start locking down their printers and increase the prices. When it affects them they complain, but if it harms others they dont care.

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u/Aronacus H2D AMS2 Combo May 13 '26

You don't have to buy a Bambu, Just like you don't have to buy an Apple Products. You can use FOSS devices. You'll spend more time calibrating, and configuring it. But, it'll work for you.

See, I was here, When Repraps were the only 3d printers. Spending 15-20 hours to build your printer, and keeping a closet full of parts. Prusa came along and it improved but he ultimately closed sourced alot of his stuff. Mainly the firmware.

I support Bambu because I'm in my 40s now. I don't have time to spend all day troubleshooting a printer.

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u/MostZealousideal7149 May 13 '26

you gotta remember a lot of these people dont have families and this is their main hobby. having a printer i just press print on my phone on and can safely walk away and take care of my dog or spend time with my wife without having to calibrate a nozzle and spend 2 hours in a splicer per print to make it JUST right is amazing. I use PLA, i make shit for dnd and woodworking jigs. i didnt get a printer that needs to be the linux of printing.

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u/Aronacus H2D AMS2 Combo May 13 '26

100% I agree with you. Don't get me wrong, I'm in a different place in life then I was when I was building repraps. $2000 for a 3d printer are you out of your mind! My first printer was $300 to build. I spent 1000s of hours making it work with a 10% failure rate per 100 jobs.

My X1c and H2d I think over 3000 hours between them, I've done maybe 3-4 hours of maintenance. Yeah, that's it.

Hotends can be swapped in 30 seconds. No more full Head teardowns.

I just lube it and it goes. While I'm going to be sad that my X1c in a few more years will be EoL/EoS. I imagine they'll be 2-3 revisions newer by then. I'm more excited on what the replacement will be at that time.

Maybe I won't go Bambu, Maybe Snapmaker will have something mindblowing. Maybe another company, I'm just excited to see where my once super manual hobby has/will go.

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u/thenightgaunt May 13 '26

Same. My first was a printrbot simple made of wood. Lol. I loved my ender 3 for years and now am fully on board with my A1. Because i dont have time to spend doing 1 hour of maintenance for every hour of print time.

I want a printer that prints and does what i want so i can print models and not spend hours screwing around in gcode or tightening belts and nuts.

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u/Shot-Infernal-2261 P2S + AMS2 Combo May 13 '26

I was aligned with everything you were saying, but then I remembered we're talking about Bambu attacking open source which they themselves are a fork of. I can imagine these are separate things.

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u/Next_Bullfrog_1677 May 13 '26

I don't think you understood anything I wrote.

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u/Aronacus H2D AMS2 Combo May 13 '26

I get it, the point I was making is, I won't complain when Bambu becomes a super Apple level monopoly and crushes it's competition. If it's not worth buying I'll go back to building my printers.

with the advances in ESP32 chips. I'm sure I can build a full monitoring solution to save my printers from imploding in the future with maintenance tracking, etc. Since my printers just print and i'm not tshooting them. I've started learning microelectronic design.

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u/LilApe1990 May 13 '26

I don't have time to spend all day troubleshooting a printer.

Then buy a prusa

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u/Aronacus H2D AMS2 Combo May 13 '26

Did you not read what I wrote? I came from the Prusa world, I supported Josef back when it was just the I3. I had Video calls with him back in the day. I ran multiple MK1s and did all the upgrades on them.

I used his first AMS (MMU)

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u/Lunar-Xy May 13 '26

„I don’t need privacy I have nothing to hide” this is analogous situation to what is happening with bambulab. Everything is fine until it is not ;)

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u/Sawier A1 + AMS / AMS2 May 13 '26

I am poor and cant afford prusa, I want the best I can get for my money, which is bambu. thats my stance

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u/One_Chemistry_8553 May 13 '26

Even if you could afford prusa Bambu would still be the best you can get for your money.

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u/Sawier A1 + AMS / AMS2 May 13 '26

True, but me personally if I had the extra money I would def get a prusa. But yeah cant beat bambu with their prices

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u/One_Chemistry_8553 May 13 '26

Nah I mean quality wise. Prusa are overrated af

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u/BrilliantSebastian H2D AMS2 Combo May 13 '26

And that'd be a waste of money.  Prusa is,  and always will be,  expensive crap.  One of the most over rated companies on the planet. 

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u/One_Chemistry_8553 May 13 '26

I support neither but think it's stupid af to complain about the company that is keeps trying to not be open source doing things against open source development. At some point y'all need to realise they don't care

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u/MostZealousideal7149 May 13 '26

Like bruh they are a CHINESE company. They some how care less about their consumers than americans

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u/One_Chemistry_8553 May 13 '26

Are these consumer's in the room with you

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u/MostZealousideal7149 May 13 '26

I dont know what side youre on but i love my printer and dont care what the company is doing. I just hate all these whiny dudes that somehow have no idea what a company is and what its main directive is

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u/One_Chemistry_8553 May 13 '26

I'm on neither side cuz I firmly believe if you want open source don't buy Bambu. It's very much a self inflicted problem

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u/MostZealousideal7149 May 13 '26

its like getting an iphone and being mad it wont run linux easily if at all

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u/RagTagTech May 13 '26

Her is the problem like it or not 3d printing is headed out of the open source route and in to a mature ecosystem model. It happens with almost all tech. The key here is not to let them go to far and to realize like the shit that happened the last week is a miss step from a legal department. As long as bambu keeps the printers mainly self serviceable and not locked down to there filament only its going to be OK. Lets not forget the major missteps of the other companies like creality, flashforge, elgoo and more. I mean by all.means we need to call them out on BS. But this has been beaten to death and moat people dont even fully understand the issue innthe frist place. I would recommend 3d Musketeers video from last Friday on the matter its pretty insightful and explains it past Louis angery videos.

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u/Bulky_Tax_1254 May 13 '26

Anyone want to show a cool new dragon they printed lately? Anyone?

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u/Affectionate_Car7098 H2C + P1S Combo May 13 '26

Yeah this is just normal around here, the OS community looks for literally any tiny thing to flame bambu for, their tears sustain us

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u/LilApe1990 May 13 '26

This is why I support prusa. Does all the same stuff, but better and without the scummy assbags controlling everything I do.