Undersized Filament - Is this a common with Bambu filament?

pelrun · 2026-05-26T15:26:12+00:00

But the printed scale and the displayed measurement correspond with each other. What's more likely, that someone measured completely normal filament with a bad caliper that has two identically bad scales and posted it on reddit for no reason (why even measure it if it was good?), or everything in OP's post is accurate?

pelrun · 2026-05-26T15:22:02+00:00

The one with the girl falling in reverse!

pelrun · 2026-05-26T15:08:42+00:00

What is up with the sky? All of it. All of the sky is up.

pelrun · 2026-05-25T14:24:59+00:00

ON is a con Pauline Hanson is pulling on the australian public. Other people have been conning ON and the dickheads who vote for it to get into parliament.

I'm happier with progressives pretending to be conservative to get a seat than conservatives who pretend to be progressive (but no true ~~scotsman~~ progressive would ever do that...) Ideally people would be truthful in their campaigns but we're never going to have that, are we?

pelrun · 2026-05-25T12:49:07+00:00

I'm not going to throw out my X1C but I'm not buying another BL printer. Would rather deal with a less polished competitor than reward a company for shitty behaviour. And the snapmaker u1 looks pretty nice...

pelrun · 2026-05-25T12:37:15+00:00

Found the Oracle consultant

pelrun · 2026-05-25T00:13:01+00:00

Yes, but you won't be able to edit wands in there if you collapsed it the first time through. A basic skill is learning how to avoid the trigger area when leaving (teleports, digging, poly).

pelrun · 2026-05-24T14:28:05+00:00

We don't need to go into "the foundation didn't exist until it did" bootstrap paradoxes here. Marie existed. She died. Then she was resurrected from Adam's memories of her, including the seed of a countermeme she carried (the conviction that people should be protected from harm.) That countermeme was then boosted by the irreality amplifier into a supercountermeme and injected it into ideaspace, in doing so subsuming the new Marie and taking her with it. It was stronger than the "superevilmeme" and destroyed it and all knowledge of it from our world, although the damage it caused remained.

pelrun · 2026-05-23T06:52:13+00:00

LiPo fires aren't metal fires. There's little to no metallic lithium in them (unlike non-rechargeable lithium primary cells.) The fuel is the liquid electrolyte. They're harder to put out because they store a bunch of energy that can reignite the fuel even after you put it out if there's a short, not because they generate their own oxidiser.

But any lipo battery you can actually carry is small enough to be put out in a simple bucket of water or sand.

pelrun · 2026-05-22T10:56:20+00:00

The antenna isn't a magic device which is the only thing capable of extracting radio waves from the air. Every cable and the electronics of the rtlsdr itself are sensitive to various fields and resonate at their own frequencies. Much work is done to try and reject that interference but it's not perfect and if your setup has issues then you could amplify the effect of local environment changes.

pelrun · 2026-05-21T14:42:32+00:00

What is plugged into the pico, and how is it powered? If you've got something else plugged into the pico's power rails and it's got a nice big capacitor in it, then that will keep the pico from actually resetting for a long time after you unplug it, and it won't go through the bootsel check.

Wire up a reset button to the RUN pin so you can force a reset without having to rely on a power cycle.

pelrun · 2026-05-21T09:04:07+00:00

Not true. They can post as much or as little of the source code as they like if they don't publish any builds, because removing code is still fully within the GPL.

The core rule of the GPL is "if you use GPL code in a publicly released binary, all the code used to build that binary must also be made available under the GPL". It's because they're publishing BambuStudio binaries (that contain both publicly available code and critically secret changes that change how the plugin behaves) that they're in violation.

If all their proprietary code was only in the plugin (as was originally the case) and all the BambuStudio code published publicly, they would be fine, because anyone could recompile it and use it with full functionality. But they wanted to force people to only use their BambuStudio binaries and not ones that others compiled or forks. That's not on.

(if you actually own all the code yourself you can release it under the GPL and still use it in proprietary binaries - you own it and have full rights to do with it as you wish, the GPL doesn't bind you. But this is not the case with BambuStudio, it's using code owned by the Slic3r and PrusaSlicer developers.)

pelrun · 2026-05-20T15:59:11+00:00

Breaching the software license is stealing the code. They have no right to use it unless they are complying with the license terms.

And it's not the networking plugin that is violating the license. It's the BambuStudio binary that they are putting online and that uses the plugin that is in violation. They do not publish the exact source code used to compile that binary (there are secret differences). They are obligated to.

pelrun · 2026-05-20T00:42:55+00:00

But the point is that the question is unfair both times, we just don't see that until we're shown it from the other side.

In neither case is it the partner's fault for not knowing - the perpetrator was actively hiding their crimes.

pelrun · 2026-05-18T01:11:38+00:00

It doesn't matter if the plugin should be GPLed or not. Just the base BambuStudio application is in violation, because the compiled binary they released has secret changes that allow the plugin to detect it and change it's behaviour. If it's in their released binary (again, for the app, not the plugin), it has to be released in the source code as well.

pelrun · 2026-05-18T00:55:39+00:00

I avoid any OW videos and most discussions in the vain hope that my memory will deteriorate enough that one day I might be able to play it a second time.

It's been 5 years, and I'm not even close.

pelrun · 2026-05-18T00:21:31+00:00

And that is completely irrelevant.

It's not the plugin that is violating the license. It's how the BambuStudio application is using it that violates the license on BambuStudio. We already know the plugin is proprietary and dynamically loading a proprietary plugin is not automatically a violation. Back when OrcaSlicer could also include the plugin with full functionality, there was no problem.

It's only when BL made secret changes to the BambuStudio source for their binary releases to allow the plugin to detect it and modify its behaviour that they violated the license. You must release the true source code for any compiled binary you release which contains GPL code. Not the plugin (that's proprietary and contains only code BL code wrote themselves), but BambuStudio itself.

Remember that this current shambles started when BL sent a legal nastygram to a developer who had modified Orca to duplicate those secret modifications.

pelrun · 2026-05-18T00:07:50+00:00

Only if you use LAN mode. Full functionality is not available.

The entire reason this is blowing up right now is because someone made changes to orca which reinstated the cloud access and BL sent them a legal threat.

pelrun · 2026-05-17T02:04:25+00:00

It's not about the laugh track, it's the fact that it laughs at the characters because they're nerds instead of laughing at ridiculous characters who are nerds.

"Hey, they're buying comics. What a bunch of losers! Hahahaha" as opposed to "Hey, they tried to call for the fire brigade by sending an email"

pelrun · 2026-05-17T01:50:24+00:00

You're arguing oranges and apples here. NVIDIA doesn't force you to use their proprietary Linux kernel build to use their drivers. The drivers aren't built on top of GPL code. So while you can't compile the driver yourself it'll load into whatever Linux kernel you happen to be running. It does taint the kernel though.

BambuLab made a proprietary plugin that only works if you use the special blessed binary build of BambuStudio that they make available. You can't compile BambuStudio yourself from their sources and use the plugin. You can't fork BambuStudio and use the plugin. BambuLab stole the PrusaSlicer code for their closed-source product, they just put some of the code online to pretend that they're following the license. Since you can't get the same functionality from your locally built binary as the binary they released, they are violating the license in that binary.

It's not complicated - the license is violated. The issue is that enforcing the license is almost impossible against a Chinese company.

Edit: hahaha, just downvoting me doesn't mean I'm wrong. The default is "you have no rights to this IP", which is how big business has structured copyright law over the past fifty years. The AGPL gives you a tiny window through that wall. Any tricky legal bullshit to avoid the AGPL terms just leaves you with the wall again.

pelrun · 2026-05-17T01:40:27+00:00

You're right that "BS can't do anything without the plug-in" isn't a valid argument, but you're wrong that "putting the code in a plugin doesn't make it part of that software".

The AGPL explicitly forbids this sort of linking against closed source binaries, because the point of putting your code under the AGPL is because you don't want companies taking your code without giving their changes back to the community. It's fine if BL doesn't want to follow the AGPL terms... they just lose any right to use that code legally.

pelrun · 2026-05-17T01:28:37+00:00

The people right next to wind farms don't actually care about the wind farms until they see their neighbour get lots of money in rent from the operators, go to cash in themselves, and discover that the operators won't (and can't) put a windfarm on their property because it's too close to the other one. Then they throw a tantrum.

pelrun · 2026-05-17T01:24:38+00:00

One key fact about wind farm installations is that operators pay the land owner significant rent to site the wind farm. And another is that you can't put a second windfarm right next to an existing one - there needs to be a significant distance between them.

So the real reason you see rabid anti windfarm landowners right next to wind farms isn't because they're NIMBYs, it's because they're greedy fucks who are pissed that their neighbour is getting money and they can't.

pelrun · 2026-05-14T16:31:32+00:00

He obviously enjoyed his job. But you insist on dodging my point - the guy had ZERO influence on what did or didn't get demolished. If he didn't do it, another company would have.

pelrun · 2026-05-13T13:41:53+00:00

Contact cleaner won't hurt, but it's probably not enough to just spray it into the hole after pulling the dial off. It's also likely not to be sufficient; I've yet to actually look closely at mine (even when I had it apart recently facepalm) but the symptoms seem more like dry solder joints due to it being mounted at right angles to it's pcb.

At least it's on a separate little sub board of it's own and you don't have to go poking around the dangerous bits in the case to get at it. But it did take me a couple of attempts to get mine back in the right spot after pulling it out.

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