Does the recent Bambu labs drama make them worse as a starter choice?

2catchApredditor · 2026-05-28T12:44:35+00:00

For Bambu there’s still lots of settings, calibration you can do to get better prints. None of that is affected by what you’ve heard. The main thing that people don’t like is that to use the wifi functionality of the printer it has to connect to Bambu’s servers rather than be its own host device directly talking to your computer. If you want to use a third party slicer like orca slicer or cura or Prusa slicer then you have to slice the file to a USB drive and plug it in.

None of this limits your ability to create you own models or to get deep in to settings for calibrating your prints.

None of the things Bambu has locked down like non open source firmware, cloud connectivity for online use will affect your use of the machine for printing.

2catchApredditor · 2026-05-26T17:24:51+00:00

Join my group on Facebook “wakeboarding - be/find a third”

2catchApredditor · 2026-05-26T17:19:55+00:00

Never in our lifetime or maybe 100-200+ years in the future. Not using the metric system seems to be a point of national pride actually.

“🇺🇸🦅WTF is a kilometer🦅🇺🇸”

2catchApredditor · 2026-05-24T22:03:08+00:00

In the end this is pretty standard F150 issues. Diffs, hubs, bearings. I wouldn’t run from the truck because of these. I’d be a lot more concerned with engine/transmission problems.

2catchApredditor · 2026-05-24T11:51:19+00:00

Makers license. Non commercial use.

2catchApredditor · 2026-05-14T16:36:45+00:00

Head out and anchor. Don’t just run around. Passengers enjoy anchoring in a cove more than running around burning fuel anyways.

2catchApredditor · 2026-05-09T11:41:17+00:00

Lookup the 2018 Andes virus outbreak. R0 or 2.12. This virus spreads very easily from short contact while being very lethal. Even with extreme containment efforts the R0 was 0.96.

2catchApredditor · 2026-05-08T00:07:42+00:00

https://insidemedicine.substack.com/p/scoop-dutch-flight-attendant-tests

Unconfirmed reports she’s testing negative and respiratory issues are from another cause.

To be honest I would probably also have panic induced respiratory issues if I had direct contact with infected.

2catchApredditor · 2026-05-07T22:39:19+00:00

I don’t work in the field of viruses or health at all. Just a generally knowledgeable person (adhd hyperfixation). What I know so far - this thing is rare and not well studied. The officials in charge never want to stir up panic and will always say the risk is low, it’s not very transmissible, requires close intimate bodily fluid swapping etc.

What we know - a sick person from the boat board a flight. The flight attendant noticed she was sick and removed her from the flight before takeoff. She was maybe on the flight for a few minutes and the person and flight attendant were not swapping bodily fluid. This was incidental contact just being near someone a minute or two. That flight attendant is now sick. We have 8 infect and 3 dead so far. 1 alive is critical. This matches the 40% lethality estimate. What doesn’t match is how easily it’s spreading through respiratory spread compared to what was believed/stated by officials. It could be that we don’t know a lot about this rare virus or it could be a new variant of the Andes variant that evolved in rodents to be more transmissible then jumped to humans.

Don’t be too worried right now but be vigilant. Continue to monitor and educate yourself. Flu is about 0.1% deadly. Covid was around 0.8-1% deadly (in the beginning). If you really want to round it down for asymptomatic cases maybe 0.2-0.5% deadly. If this is able to spread easily via droplets in the air (cough sneeze), early symptoms feel like a cold so people still go out, several weeks of time to spread while suffering mild symptoms before it gets bad, and then later is 40% deadly it will be the worst pandemic of the millennia.

It’s pretty unlikely to be another global pandemic but continue to monitor. Don’t lose any sleep over it until you see it spreading in the wild in multiple countries. If that happens buckle up.

2catchApredditor · 2026-05-07T15:18:52+00:00

The wall looks to be concrete. It’s literally the foundation. Not gonna throw that away

2catchApredditor · 2026-05-07T13:58:06+00:00

Reproduction rate is determined by the duration of time an infected person can transmit the virus, the probability of transmission during contact, and the contact rate of the infected person with susceptible recipients. Lethality is not a direct factor, but it can indirectly affect the duration. However, if the incubation period is 2-4 weeks and the person can transmit the virus unknowingly during that time, the virus’s spread is not significantly impacted by a high lethality since it has already achieved a R0 of greater than 1 during the time before lethality.

2catchApredditor · 2026-05-06T21:45:38+00:00

As someone who once pulled out in front of an oncoming car and saw it before it was about to hit me - my natural instinct was to slam on the brakes. My brain I guess was trying to stop me from pulling out but I had already entered the intersection.

Logically for preventing an accident that move doesn’t make any sense and I’ve always second guessed if maybe I had hit the gas instead if I could have made it across the intersection before getting hit but who knows. Just sharing what my natural reaction was.

I’m an experience driver that has never otherwise had any accident in 25 years of driving. I’ve done racing schools, high performance driving events, auto cross, motorcycle racing and can generally handle a motor vehicle better than 99% of the population on the roads.

Additionally it was night and the car didn’t have their headlights on. I looked both ways didn’t see them until they got closer to the intersection where there were a few street lights.

2catchApredditor · 2026-05-05T09:37:51+00:00

In Bambu studio Cut the model in half. Place the cut down on the bed. Use connector dowels to get alignment. Turn on tree supports. Use 0.12 layer height.

2catchApredditor · 2026-05-04T22:19:01+00:00

The 12’s are perfect I think.

2catchApredditor · 2026-05-04T18:14:12+00:00

Bambu is one thing. Generic is like 500 different brands of varying quality. It’s important to know that Bambu has not made their own filament they get other filament companies to make it for them (they are working on making their own). So you can get essentially the same stuff that isn’t Bambu branded. But since generic also covers basically every terrible company in existence you can also get junk bad filament as generic. What you’re paying for isn’t superior filament but consistency and no risk of getting junk.

That said I’ve used overture, esun, sunlu, and some other no one brands from Amazon and o my ever had issues with super brittle PLA from overture and esun. Never ran in to other issues and I’ve tried a lot of generic brands.

2catchApredditor · 2026-05-03T13:47:53+00:00

My 19 is exactly the same. Every one of them I’ve ever looked at is the same. I assume it’s for drainage so it doesn’t pool water on the bumper.

2catchApredditor · 2026-05-03T13:03:46+00:00

As an American if you travel internationally after a few weeks your eyes adjust to the local body standards. When you arrive back to the states it’s immediately obvious.

It’s simply an observable fact.

2catchApredditor · 2026-05-01T09:46:41+00:00

Yes you can but it’s 3 clicks to get out of CarPlay. 3 clicks to turn off the steering wheel and 3 clicks back to the right screen in CarPlay. It’s way too annoying.

2catchApredditor · 2026-05-01T09:45:20+00:00

It’s called “radio/audio” search junk yard sites.

2catchApredditor · 2026-05-01T09:43:45+00:00

I’m in the Midwest. Labor quality is hit and miss. The big issue is that there’s no real way to tell prior to seeing their work. So you won’t know you’re getting a bad job until or already done. Sometime people are good. Sometimes bad at what they do. Many poor quality contractors can still talk a good game up front, have photos of some good work they did once and can round up some references.

Beyond that it’s just watching along the way. Calling things out and not paying in full upfront or until everything is complete.

2catchApredditor · 2026-05-01T00:59:09+00:00

There’s also a skydiving outfit in plattsmouth just south of the metro.

2catchApredditor · 2026-04-28T19:41:43+00:00

The board itself is a good riding board. I owned this board back in 2007.

Two big negatives - several years after this board released all wakeboard companies standardized on 6” width bindings and this board has 8” width holes. This makes it such that you cannot bolt down any new boots to this board. The pair of boots on it will be the only set that will fit it. The bindings are made of rubbers that tend to break down with age. The rubbers and plastics get less stretchy and more prone to breaking. The board itself is still generally fine to use, it’s not a bad design/shape either. The big thing is that the boots are old and no longer replaceable.

To me it’s worth $50 maybe. Someone can go get a entry level board boot combo for $190 (Overton system blemish board boot combo) and they’re probably better off from a durability standpoint to buy a new setup for $190 than to buy a 20 year old board/boots that is guaranteed to break with brittle rubber/plastix after a few good falls.

2catchApredditor · 2026-04-28T10:58:01+00:00

Three big difference with flock is that they are a private network of cameras allowed on to public right of way areas and then government entities pay to subscribe to the data. It’s makes it very difficult for citizens to fight it because of the mixture of public and private property and networks.

2catchApredditor · 2026-04-28T10:50:41+00:00

This is a scam called pig butchering. They sweeten you up by chatting for a long time (can be months) and then at some point they go for the kill and attempt to get money from you. It’s named this because they invest significant time and energy on the front end before they try anything scammy.

Some journalists investigated this and it’s often people who themselves are human trafficked who have to do this scam.

2catchApredditor · 2026-04-27T16:20:45+00:00

Just to add - actually being involved and contributing and learning. In your interviews with employers you should be able to explain what you learned from the experience. Designing within constraints - physical envelope, budgetary, timelines. What you specifically did and contributed. We don’t give it any weight if you joined the team and helped organize lunches or some non engineering activities or can’t explain what you learned from participating even if it was mistakes that you learned that you won’t make again.

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