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  • Bambu Lab Firmware Update Forces Cloud Dependency & User Lock-In - AVOID THEIR 3D PRINTERS!

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  • For everyone in the EU who bought their product within the last two years directly from Bambu Land or from a German reseller:

    Stay calm. There is a very highly probability that German customer protection laws will cover your asses - Bambu Lab EU is based in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, and German customer protection laws goes beyond EU rules and applies to you.

    I am currently working with three other enthusiasts, one being a lawyer -working in a different field, though- to clarify our options and will also talk to a customer protection agency.

    Short explanation:

    • German customer protection laws enable the customer of any online shop to "check" the sold product for 14d in a way they would check the product at a real world shop. The feature set and sales claims provided at this time do provide the base for finalization of the sale.
    • The seller (!= Manufacturer!) has to provide a warranty for two years - for 6 months the burden of prove that the fault was not present at the delivery falls towards the seller, for the remaining time to the buyer. As BL does communicate the chanhe openly this is not an issue.
    • BL furthermore claims that some uses fall outside the "intended use". This is completely irrelevant - that is only relevant if they claim that they cannot provide warranty due to use outside the intended use. They still cannot reduce the feature set.
    • Which holds more merit is the claim of BL that they are reducing a side feature/unintended feature. This explanation has, in the past, been used a few times in court successfully,but lately it has not been accepted anymore - even App connections for cars have been deemed a "base feature" that might play a significant role in choosing a car. It especially has not merit in cases when this defence is used to force a user to give up their (sensitive) data.
    • BL also has a five year update policy in their TOS (which is mostly invalid otherwise,though) - and blocking users from updating if they don't want to loose features and give up data is also very likely a breach of contract.
    • There are also GDPR and market law implications that need to be considered.

    What does that all mean? What can happen in the end?

    It is highly unlikely that this proceedings can change the course of BL - these companies don't give a fuck. But it might force them to basically reverse the sale (you would need to pay them for the actual use, though - but that is miniscule). Of course BL can also close their office in the EU and try to only sell from outside the EU - but that will put a very large crosshair on their back in terms of customs and taxes.

    I keep you updated.

    Update 21/01/25 Spoke with a customer protection associations lawyer for a short time, the longer answer will follow later. Few key facts:

    • The fact that you once could use external tools and control while using cloud connection as well and soon cannot do this anymore is a relevant feature change, that it might affect the base of the sale. Developer mode is not a full replacement for that.
    • There are some other issues with Bambu Lab policies, especially their return policies, that will be looked into as they directly contradict German law.

  • Bambu Lab Firmware Update Forces Cloud Dependency & User Lock-In - AVOID THEIR 3D PRINTERS!

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  • Are you within the EU? If yes, there is a good chance you can force them to return it - they fall under German law as Bambu Lab EU is based in Germany and German consumer protection laws are very strict in that terms.

  • Looking for a good VPN for 2025, any recommendations?

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  • Proton is and always was sketchy.

    A company claiming "Swiss privacy laws" as their base while de facto operating out of the US is highly problematic. Switzerland has the weakest privacy laws of all European countries, has laws in place for extensive intelligence agency placement within their tech companies and has a history of intelligence agency overreach. The USA can easily make companies and executives do what they want due to the whole Homeland security act clusterfuck.

    I wouldn't touch then with a ten foot pole if data privacy was ones goal.

  • Elon Musk Reportedly Emerges As a Potential Intel Buyer, Involving Qualcomm & Global Foundries In This Blockbuster Deal

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  • The problem is not your own setup - the fact that Intel is still huge in the server market (and very likely will be for a long time as AMD still is not up to their level in some applications) is the concerning issue.

  • Sonos CEO behind disastrous app exits with $1.9 million severance

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  • Have a look at mDNS. It's very often the issue here.

  • Sonos CEO behind disastrous app exits with $1.9 million severance

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  • If you use home assistant take a look at music assistant, it solves a lot of these issues for free.

  • Sonos CEO behind disastrous app exits with $1.9 million severance

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  • Sadly you still need that POS to intially configure it and the occasional update.

  • Sonos CEO behind disastrous app exits with $1.9 million severance

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  • That very much sounds like a network problem.

    Are both hosts in the same subnet?

  • S̵̢̡̠̣̜͍̘͍̈́̿͒̈̎̉͌͂̎̾̓Ḩ̶̡̛̯̰̤̻͖̹̝̼͍͔̰̃̅̋̍̈̆̋̋́̔͝Ǫ̴̺͔̫͈͉͎̤͎͗͂̅͒̀͒W̶̛͖̺̰̠̙̲̓͆̋̉̌̆̂͛̀̒̕͘ ̷̨̦̤̇̀̓̉́̅͒̄͝M̶͓̗͚̩̬͈͎͗̓̈́́͜͜Ẹ̵̢̢̺̞͓͓̤͙̙͖̈́̈̉͝ ̶̧̡̲̺͓̮̰̘̮͚͉̝͈̝̀͒́̎̾̓͜͝͝͠T̷̡̟̘̫͋͋̑͊̓͐̊̐̎H̸̪̋͛̓̀̍̂̐̂͐̾̈́̒̃É̵̛̾̅̀͛̃̄̏

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  • Well, we did learn exactly that in school and had a practical demonstration at a museum.

    But on a different continent.

  • Sonos CEO behind disastrous app exits with $1.9 million severance

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  • Just as a way to soothe the outrage about this POS of an app: A fair share of the problem can be minimised by using Home Assistant and Music Assistant to control the Sonos devices. This way you very rarely need to actually use the app anymore.

    Which is good because it's indeed shit.

  • The best Cloud backup in 2025?

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  • My current strategy might be a bit over the top,but it works.

    I have two main entities that contain data worth backing up - the NAS and to a much smaller extend my Proxmox cluster (which is partly within my house,partly at Hetzner).

    User PCs do not have any User data saved, they all work with network drives mapped to the NAS, only irrelevant amounts of data are stored on them that gets backed up via Free File Sync. For the Notebooks I use the same concept as we are using a WG VPN 99,9% of the time anyway,but some important folders get also synched via Free File Sync for offline use if no mobile connection is available.

    For proper backups I have basically three classes of data that I maintain: Prio 1: The real real important stuff. Photos of once in a lifetime events, important documents, etc. Prio 2: The stuff you still don't want to loose. All other photos, the scanned documents, home folders, VMs/LXX backups, configurations, etc. Prio3: Everything else,mostly data that could be downloaded again. Easily. Movies, etc.

    Prio3 data is currently only living in the NAS and does get backed up once in a while on a external hard drive. It's mainly backed up as I am lazy and in case the NAS craps out I don't want to reload all the stuff...that would take months.

    Prio2 data gets backed up fully: For the NAS data: It gets backed up to B2 with versioning according to my needs (usually 3d,2w,3m,1y,but that depends highly on the source). Additionally full external hard drive backups every few weeks. (I would kill to get my hands on a proper tape drive again,I had one back in the day,but it was used and old and died) Some data is also stored on Synology C2 atm,but I will replace that soon with another cloud provider, likely Hetzner.

    For Proxmox: Basically the same, but I use TUXIS instead of B2 and Hetzner instead of Synology C2. Additionally I have a old PC with Proxmox backup server which turns on once a week and safes the whole cluster before turning off again. In the future this PC is planned to replace the External hard disk's,but currently hard drive prices are insane.

    For the P1 data: Same as above,but it's definitely staying on a second cloud provider. Additionally I also create archive blue ray disk's every few month. (Usually every 4). These go into the safe deposit box at my bank and additionally to a second storage location.

    And of course I have detailed instructions about this in my will so even if both my wife and I die my kid can figure it out.

  • What cheap setup or technique works for truly flat photos for use in CAD?

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  • I would use a fixed document camera with a height adjustable holder/desk for the actual piece of the board. The former are often fairly high quality in terms of resolution at their fixed focal length as long as you have good lightning and can often be found for cheap used. They definitely will also have lens distortion,but it should be easy to create your own profile to counteract this when doing a few calibration runs. (I think there I came around a tool for that once,but can't find it now)

    The height adjustable holder/desk makes it fairly easy to always keep the actual image plane in the same distance so your profile once calibrated would fit, additionally you can use it to bring the pane of the object in the right angle to towards the camera if it isn't "flat" enough. I personally would try to adopt a 3D milling table from AliExpress for it, put it in a box below the actual image pane and use a digital angle meter to make sure it's actually flat

    With that you should be able to achieve an accuracy below 0.1mm at least

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  • Wow, he was "unlucky" to be ahead of his time.

    Nowadays there is a good chance he would have gotten away with some legal trick or be pardoned and made the secretary of justice or FBI boss.

  • What's a story of an affair with a work colleague that you're willing to share and what happened?

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  • Was in a long-term relationship,but wanted some fun with a colleague. Went on a date with her.

    Well, turns out I am really bad at affairs and now I am married for 11 years and have a kid. Time flies fast

  • What jobs can you get if you dropped out of a PhD in math with an MS?

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  • If you are interested in the following field let me know,as I actually am looking for a Math or/and Geoinformatics graduate next year: Basically we are looking for someone who can transfer rather large amount of data (anonymous patient data, location based social and economic data, general healthcare data,etc.) into an universal and reproduceable mathematical model that improves predictions on healthcare case loads, especially in terms of urgent and emergency care. In a second step this then must be transferred in a location based model to generate heat maps.

    The overall goal is to improve the distribution of healthcare providers, ambulances,etc. in systems with a high degree of governance.

    While we generally do work for insurance companies these are not US insurances but rather public insurance systems.

    Shoot me an DM if you are interested.

  • As firms abandon VMware, Broadcom is laughing all the way to the bank

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  • I switched both my homeland and my company servers to it and couldn't be happier.

  • As firms abandon VMware, Broadcom is laughing all the way to the bank

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  • Well, there are reasonable alternatives these days and if more companies donated to Proxmox/bought their services there would be a better replacement sooner.

    But with Proxmox Datacenter Manager it's going in the right direction.

  • Counter-Drone Systems For Yachts Are Growing In Popularity

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  • I wait for one of these systems to interfere with a legal drone operation or better some other radio/radar systems. Some countries will ignore it,but other very very much will not. And that will be a very happy day for me.

  • Cloud Free Smart Home

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  • Just adding a few thoughts:

    • If you already use Omada for APs it might be worth it to use their switches as well. Makes networking fairly easy. MKs are nice (I use them together with Omada myself),but basically everything you would need can be achieved with the Omada Switches as well. Only for the actual Gateway/Firewall I would rather go with OPNsense or, in a pinch, MK, with the later being inferior to OPNsense.
    • Multiroom Audio I would very much recommend Amplipi, but I also might add that central audio with reasonably high quality is not as easy as it sounds electrically - I have seen more than a few installations that failed due to induction from other sources, timing issues,etc. It is sadly harder than one would think. It gets much much much harder for TV/motion picture relevant things as things are even more timing sensitive then.
    • have a look at KNX for all smart home related things. It's the gold standard.