I think it all depends on the sincerity and scale of the compliment. If someone just offhandedly says that your shoes are cool, it’s ok to just say thanks and move on. But if someone makes a specific compliment on something close to you, like pointing out a part of your project they like, it might be more appropriate to talk about choices you made, how it was done etc.

If Bambu were out there suing people for stuff they didn’t make, I’d be more in line with calling them thieves. But the work they have used is still freely available to anyone who wants to use it. Similar to how Sovol sells what is essentially a preassembled Voron; I’m an engineer, I wouldn’t buy one because I’d rather do it myself. But to the hundreds of thousands of people who wouldn’t want to spend a week building a printer, but love the design and concept of the Voron, they now have the option. Everyone with their Voron can continue using it, and everyone who wants to just buy one can.

I mean, look at the computer industry/ hobby. Started off with a bunch of enthusiats building crap in their garage. Computers became important, businesses started taking note, and now when the average person thinks of a home computer, they think “Dell, HP, Apple”. But all the other stuff didn’t just go away. There’s still a huge, thriving community of people who slapped their stuff together and run the jankiest, least proprietary OS possible on them. Nothing’s stopping them from doing what they want to do, but now everyone else can do it, too.

Bambu changed everything for the worst and forced everyone to lower expectations and business practices.

I’m sorry, Bambu forced people to LOWER their expectations…? What expectations are you talking about?

Bambu made everyone want a printer that prints insanely fast, with incredible quality and zero hassle. I have a friend who is the least tech savvy person I’ve ever met, he genuinely barely knows how to use a computer, but his Bambu prints circles around my heavily modified and upgraded Neptune 3.

If your “expectations” are literally just, “it’s open source and I can do whatever I want” then yeah a Bambu won’t meet those expectations. But that’s a far cry from “everyone’s” expectations, and I definitely wouldn’t say that they “forced” other businesses to follow suite.

Bambu is making printing accessible to non-enthusiasts. Their products aren’t always going to align with what old-heads are looking for, but the benefit of knowing what you’re doing is that you can decide for yourself not to go that route. Nothing on God’s green Earth can stop you from sourcing parts and building a Voron that does exactly what you want, no matter what Bambu does, but now that 3D printing is entering the mainstream, the mainstream needs a way to print, and Bambu is there to fill that gap in the market.

Yeah, most LLMs I’ve used tend to use phrases like TBH and …etc.

What is an " “everyone should” thing"?

They’re giving advice about someone a lot of people don’t know about, not sure what you’re implying they’re doing.

This must feel very scary. I think you should seek help from a psychological professional about your concerns, they may be able to help with some of the things you have listed. As someone else has said, you should definitely remove your phone number from this post.

Post: I damaged my Prusa printer 🙁

People in this community, for some reason: Bambu bad 😠

I would say go ahead and make a separate account if it’s here on the fediverse and it’s important to you that progress remains trackable and organized. A vast majority of accounts and communities here have very little content. Even if you’re posting very infrequently, the community here is small enough that people who are interested will see and remember the previous ones.

A small thing that I think would help mitigate the “abandoned project” look is putting the date in the title of your updates. The post will obviously have a timestamp on it that shows how old the post is (ie “posted 4 weeks ago”), but seeing [December 2024 Update] at the top of a profile feels much more reassuring that something is being worked on, and also makes it easier for anyone scrolling through the account to a. get an idea of how much things are being worked on, and b. navigate through the project history.

If you’re talking about an account on the fediverse, I don’t think it matters much at this point.

If mean like a typical social media account like an Instagram, or a GitHub page or something, I’d say that when you want people you don’t know to look at it and understand what’s going on, projects should have their own account.

I have a personal Instagram account that I throw 3d printing, car, and some paint related things on so I can easily show my friends and family stuff that I do, but I also sell DnD minis and have a separate account that I only post minis to that has information about pricing and whatnot.

I’d say it’s serious in the sense that is represents a part of the culture it’s people find important, but I don’t think it’s represented as a “true story”

Bro got zero rizz FR and that’s on God.

“inventor” is definitely a job, if you’re already rich 🙁

Just because the benchy was designed to be used as a calibration tool doesn’t mean people shouldn’t be able to do whatever they want with it. If a print a benchy with The Rock’s face on it I’m not gonna go to their website and be like “omg it looks different why???” Also the model is a solid 3d model, it isn’t presliced, so the only thing a manufacturer could do to make a benchy “look better” on their printer would be to make it visibly different than the original, which… See above.

Like I get what you’re saying, standardization is important for tools like this, but if someone wants to calibrate their printer it’s not like it’s difficult to get the original benchy and run your test. If they were just removing models that are nearly identical but with small tweaks I’d be more likely to agree, but they’re removing artwork and gag models that could never be mistaken or passed off as the original.

It’d be like banning children’s toys that look like tools because someone might try to build a house with a plastic ruler.

think about whatever it was they were thinking about before someone came along and told them they had to earn a living.

This right here moved me. Not just because it’s so spot on, but because I don’t even remember what I was thinking about back then.

“Do XYZ I’ll wait” is always gonna sound snobby, even if it’s just a joke 🤷🏾‍♂️ to be clear I’m completely on your side. Even if these were super common in one area or another, if you find it at least mildly interesting, it’s in the right place. The opener to your comment just read as super defensive to me.

Find me one irl I’ll wait

How are you being so snobby in claiming that they cannot find something that you literally have just shown exists in the wild, especially when they’re implying they’ve seen them before…?

It looks to me like your printer is printing on slightly melted plastic. I don’t use orca or a Bambu, so I don’t know if you’re able to do this, but I would try printing that section slower, or changing the minimum layer time. It looks like that’s a small cross section so it’s probably finishing the layer and starting the next before the previous one has cooled down.

What more does the Grok response provide? The response itself is made up. Ask the LLM the same question 5 times and you will get 5 different answers.

One might assume they aren’t, since they asked someone to clarify. How nice of you to laugh at them instead of answering the question.

You are only able to specifically control the actions of the named target, but their death can involve another person.

Ie you can say “so and so gets hit by a bus” and a random bus nearby will hit them, but you cannot say “so and so is killed by such and such” and have the second person kill the first. I believe both people die of a heart attack if you try.