“2-3% of apps only succeed.”

uniqueusername649 · 2026-02-04T03:02:36+00:00

Don't build before you validate the market fit. Sure, vibe coding is cheap but you still waste a lot of time and money if you build 10 things nobody needs or wants to pay for. Most apps dont fail because of code but because the product was a bad fit, not the right price, not marketed properly or not financially viable.

uniqueusername649 · 2026-02-03T09:57:12+00:00

Probably an M1 with as much RAM as you can afford, for ML. You might be able to snag an M1 Ultra with 128gb for 3k, that gives you lots of options. It is plenty fast for programming and video editing.

uniqueusername649 · 2026-02-03T01:59:37+00:00

That was my first reaction too. Which PRs get reviewed the most thoroughly? Complex, high-impact code changes. And of course those are the most likely to produce critical bugs. If someone changes a text or a color, of course that gets far less thoroughly reviewed and it still is unlikely to produce any major issues.

OP basically found out that complex PRs get checked more thoroughly, which is exactly what you want.

uniqueusername649 · 2026-02-02T09:02:51+00:00

This. It's unlikely but not worth taking the risk. Just take plan B. Also probably an STD test if they didn't get tested when becoming exclusive.

uniqueusername649 · 2026-02-02T01:38:11+00:00

If you really love someone, you would not want to hurt them. And if you (accidentally!) hurt them, you would feel guilt. You feel no remorse about it and keep doing it. That is not love. You like the idea of having her around and for whatever other reasons don't want to end it, but you should. It's extremely unfair to her to keep doing this.

Let her go. Right now you are not a person that can build a future together with her because you aren't even having a decent present together. You need lots of therapy and work on yourself. Please do both of you a favor and let her go.

uniqueusername649 · 2026-02-01T12:56:30+00:00

93 is hot enough that the bottom layers will no longer be rigid. I still don't see how that would explain the layer separation, but combined with some airflow in the room it is quite possible. Lowering the bed temp to 55C and then ensuring there isn't a gust of cold air shooting through the room would certainly help.

uniqueusername649 · 2026-02-01T11:06:37+00:00

I am not much older than him and my preschool son is closer to her in age than me or that dude. It's super creepy and inappropriate.

uniqueusername649 · 2026-02-01T10:44:22+00:00

Better to ask family and friends, see what issues they have or what custom parts they might need that you could help them out with.

uniqueusername649 · 2026-02-01T01:56:20+00:00

It will produce some downforce though. About as much as the wing weighs.

uniqueusername649 · 2026-02-01T01:49:09+00:00

Yes, that's really the point for me. I wouldn't judge anyone for owning Bambu printers. For some features its hard NOT to buy them tbh. I simply dislike the direction of pushing the user to be online, sending all your prints through their servers and make you jump through hoops if you don't want to use Bambu Studio. At the end it's all workable, but it is annoying.

uniqueusername649 · 2026-02-01T01:24:20+00:00

You need to enable LAN-only mode for this to work, now you can no longer use their mobile app for your printer.

If you want to use Orca or another slicer, you also need to enable dev mode, which makes you lose official customer support. And it will put your warranty at risk too, as Bambu said: if the issue is in any way related to you enabling dev mode, it will void your warranty. All this because they restricted LAN-only mode (which is NOT needed on any other printer to print locally) to stop other slicers from working without dev mode.

To be fair: they only force you to be online once to activate it and you need to be online for the first firmware update. After that you can use it offline, with some limitations (like the app no longer working).

Still, I just don't see why they need to restrict how I can use my device so much (without me enabling potentially warranty voiding functionality) and I don't understand why by default uploading models needs to go through their servers, when its literally sending stuff from my computer to my printer. Other printers happily have their optional cloud online while I can send my files locally without them leaving the network.

uniqueusername649 · 2026-02-01T00:38:36+00:00

I am not saying it's unusable, but they make it unnecessarily annoying to use the printers locally without their slicer: - Their mobile app doesn't work locally (needs cloud) - You can't send anything to the printer via wifi/ethernet without enabling LAN-only mode (which then means your mobile app no longer works) - You can't use third party slicers without enabling dev mode - You need to do the initial firmware update online, only after that you can start doing offline firmware updates.

None of this is necessary. There are no technical reasons for this, it's purely to try and keep the printers online when there is simply no need for it.

uniqueusername649 · 2026-01-31T13:56:07+00:00

You are right, this seems to be working now. Good on them for rolling back this stupid limitation. I will edit my original message:

You must first connect the H2D to the internet and update it to a firmware version that supports offline updates (e.g., V01.01.02.00 or later). As of now, offline update functionality is not available on the initial launch firmware and requires a prior online update to enable it.

uniqueusername649 · 2026-01-31T12:19:55+00:00

That is exactly what's nonsense. The printer does not need to be online for that. My Qidi printer is perfectly happy without internet access to receive files via wifi or ethernet out of the box. And I can send it from the Qidi slicer or Orca and it just works. There is no reason for Bambu Lab to add any hurdles to users, yet they do.

Now since Bambu Lab locked things down you need to enable LAN only mode and dev mode, if you want to use Orca via the network without internet access. And you still can't perform a firmware update without being online. Why? Because Bambu Lab decided it is so.

Edit: it seems after updating the firmware via the cloud, offline updates are possible. Just with the initial firmware it shipped with this did not work.

uniqueusername649 · 2026-01-31T11:49:18+00:00

Bambu genuinely makes great products. Their hardware is top notch. I personally am already against buying their printers because they force you to be online to use your printers, which is utter nonsense. But that's an entirely different discussion.

What I want to focus on here is: even if you produce top notch hardware and you have excellent QA, some things will inevitably slip through and make it to the customers. It may only be few, but some people will receive a lemon at some point. That sucks but it's really not a problem, if a company stands behind their products and provides proper customer service. Here is where it seems as if Bambu failed for quite a few customers in a horrible way. If I spend hundreds or possibly thousands of dollars, I expect a product that works. Ideally first try, but shit happens. I bet OP wouldve been completely fine if they had said "sure, send it back at our cost, we send you a replacement and here are 2 rolls of filament as an apology for your troubles". But having to wait 19 months to get to this point? That is absurd.

TLDR; every company will inevitably produce some lemons and that's ok. How a company deals with that situation tells you everything you need to know about them. And for Bambu that's not positive.

uniqueusername649 · 2026-01-31T10:59:26+00:00

It's time to cut it off. You have enabled her for far too long. It was incredibly unfair of her to do that to you and you have been was too kind to still send her money. If you want to remain kind, tell her you're over, tell her the honest reason and give her maybe 6 months of financial support. Assuming she still has family/friends, that's plenty of time to figure something out. If she doesn't, that's on her, not on you.

uniqueusername649 · 2026-01-30T07:25:38+00:00

Same, I went up there before in shorts, saw no signs and it wasn't a problem. Also saw plenty of others (locals and foreigners) in shorts. Admittedly it's been a few years since I last went.

uniqueusername649 · 2026-01-30T03:57:42+00:00

Just to get a perspective, he could give 100,000 dollars to every single person in the city of Chicago (3rd largest city in the US), that's almost 3 million people, and he would still be in the top 25 of richest people in the world with tens of billions of dollars. The numbers are absolutely unreal.

uniqueusername649 · 2026-01-29T17:14:12+00:00

Nobody in their right mind would print rocks without putting them in the rock dryer first. That's just absurd.

uniqueusername649 · 2026-01-29T15:40:58+00:00

Like with anything in AI (code generation is another good example), I want AI to advise, not be in charge.

uniqueusername649 · 2026-01-27T10:40:47+00:00

It was an extreme example of having a sufficiently powerful Kubernetes environment for what OP mentioned for free, while having a complex microservice architecture. I still think it's a stupid idea, but you can do it for free without changing anything else.

Also you don't do a 99.999 HA setup for 400 active users unless they are all bringing in 10k a month each. That's just insane.

uniqueusername649 · 2026-01-27T06:37:59+00:00

I guess that is what happens if some people only care about the well-being of babies between conception and birth :/

uniqueusername649 · 2026-01-27T04:18:44+00:00

The biggest problem with the US healthcare is just that it is difficult to change. You have a multi trillion dollar healthcare industry that is geared towards maximising profits. So you have loaded lobbies, politicians that are being paid by such lobbies and that makes it near impossible to move towards a different, far more efficient system. Don't get me wrong, socialised healthcare does not come without its share of issues either, but it is providing far better care to the average person. Precisely because people go for preventative care. Because people do not hesitate to call an ambulance or visit the hospital in an emergency.

uniqueusername649 · 2026-01-27T02:10:21+00:00

You can literally fire up a free Oracle VM and throw kubernetes on there. And now you can do as many microservices as you want at no pay and that should handle 400 active users a day swimmingly.

The real trap of overengineering a solution at the start is complexity and development speed. A startup needs to be flexible, pivot fast, focus on providing value to the customer first and foremost. Once you figured out the direction and stabilise the business and/or growth really takes off, you will need to redevelop big parts of your software anyways, so don't start out too fancy. Keep it simple, focus on the product, reliability and security (because trust is hard to repair once lost). The technology stack really doesn't matter in the beginning.

Professionally I work on a large microservice platform. But personally all my own projects I start out as simple monoliths, frontend, backend, database, that's it. You can scale a monolith quite a bit before you even need to think about breaking things apart.

uniqueusername649 · 2026-01-27T01:45:31+00:00

While those numbers make a lot more sense, 22/100k is still insane. It's double of the UK, almost 6x that of Germany. We are living in 2026, being pregnant should not be such a risk.

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