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upvoteby simpaticoder14 hours ago|
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"We forced every user of every printer, worldwide, to interact with their printer through our centralized servers. This caused service disruptions affecting everyone. The cost was instability felt by all users."

There, I fixed it for you Bambu. You may use it under Creative Commons.

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upvoteby kennywinker17 hours ago|
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Seems like making the slicer only able to talk to the printer via the cloud was a bad way to do things, where any issue results in “instability felt by all users.”
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upvoteby shrx15 hours ago|
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It can talk to the printer directly if you use "LAN mode". This also work with 3rd party slicers like OrcaSlicer.
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upvoteby dns_snek14 hours ago|
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This is false. After the authorization-related firmware changes last year LAN mode doesn't allow 3rd party slicers to connect.

LAN mode is also abandonware with numerous issues and missing features that they've had no interest in fixing. Orca slicer has had to rely on hacky workarounds in Bambu's buggy networking plugin just to be able to connect to printers in a different subnet. https://github.com/bambulab/BambuStudio/issues/4512

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upvoteby voidUpdate2 hours ago|
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I guess my printer must be magic then because I can use Orca over LAN with the printer in lan mode just fine
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upvoteby shrx6 hours ago|
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> This is false. After the authorization-related firmware changes last year LAN mode doesn't allow 3rd party slicers to connect.

I can connect to my P2S in LAN mode with OrcaSlicer just fine (currently using the latest 2.4.0 nightly).

> be able to connect to printers in a different subnet

This is a separate issue, I think even Bambu Studio can't connect to printers in LAN mode on a different subnet.

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upvoteby dns_snek4 hours ago|
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> I can connect to my P2S in LAN mode with OrcaSlicer just fine (currently using the latest 2.4.0 nightly).

You either haven't updated the firmware or you also enabled "Developer mode" which has its own issues.

> This is a separate issue, I think even Bambu Studio can't connect to printers in LAN mode on a different subnet.

It's not a separate issue, it's a long-standing bug in their proprietary networking plugin that they refuse to fix. Orca slicer has implemented a hacky workaround so it actually works there.

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upvoteby kennywinker13 hours ago|
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So if my printer isn’t working because their network is down, it’ll swap to lan mode for a seamless experience? No? Huh.
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upvoteby throwawayqqq1117 hours ago|
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They also seem to not know their nerdy customers, which means, fun times ahead :)
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upvoteby flowerthoughts18 hours ago|
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Do the well-behaving clients really need to use those servers? Could you have done something to avoid this bottleneck for all users?

Yeah, this is a farce.

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upvoteby closetohome20 hours ago|
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So am I understanding correctly that all of this "unauthorized traffic" was their customers...using their product?
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upvoteby 9cb14c1ec019 hours ago|
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So it would seem.
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upvoteby ibaikov18 hours ago|
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So technically they just said that their printers would be less popular if Orcaslicer ceased to exist.
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upvoteby philipwhiuk20 hours ago|
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I guess if it's a security issue, it's a security issue: https://github.com/bambulab/BambuStudio/issues/10681
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upvoteby miki12321118 hours ago|
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A conspiracy-theory steelmanning interpretation of that statement is that Bambu thinks that some unscrupulous Chinese manufacturer is performing DDoS attacks against them, but can't fully and publicly admit to that for legal reasons.
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upvoteby pdpi11 hours ago|
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... and sending a cease and desist to OrcaSlicer somehow mitigates that DDoS?
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upvoteby joemi14 hours ago|
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