People comment because the foot to body length ratio looks weird. Not because he’s “short”. 5’7 isn’t short. It’s not tall like someone that’s 6’5 but it’s not short either.

Lol

Well, your post says otherwise.

You have the intent to do actions that could impact the housing/land market.

BUT you noted that people can’t live on agricultural land where you are at just now. so that makes a big difference, and had you of made that clear your post might have been a little bit more well received.

So I think that is an interesting idea but you are still going against the grain there.

There are many people here that are very against the exact thing you are trying to do, so the reddit quip you made is kinda backwards lol.

Please no.

This is already a big problem we have with the world today, people trying to make money from land and housing. We need less people doing shit like this. Causing housing market issues just to make money.

Also, it might backfire on you. More “clutter” is more work/cost for a prospective buyer. You would need to be restrictive to buyers that specifically want your style, which could put you in a position of discrimination.

You could say, “but I’m only one person, it’s not going to make a difference” not thinking about the millions of other people out there doing the same thing. Don’t do this, just sell it and move on if you’re going to sell it.

Sorry for the delay, I’ve been quite busy.

Here’s a link to the powershell script.

https://pastebin.com/RFtfLQNq

Take note of line 4. It is looking for a separate file called discover_printer.ini to retrieve printer information from. You can name the ini file whatever you want, just make sure to update the name within the powershell script.

Here’s the link to the ini file. Not sure why I even bothered to put it there since it’s so short lol.

https://pastebin.com/138TnASY

PRINTER1_DEV_NAME= The name you want the printer to show up as in Bambu Studio

PRINTER1_USN= Serial number of the printer

PRINTER1_IP= Local IP address of the printer

PRINTER1_CODE= The access code for the printer that is in lan mode

You can do multiple printers in one ini, just change the number at the end of “PRINTER” to the next number.

We use this for X1E models, but the script looks to be generic so I don’t think it will matter which one you have.

I have only seen one person have an issue out of the 50 or so that use this script. It will connect from his machine but consistently fails to send files to the printer.

I just put the powershell script and the ini in the root directory of the Bambu Studio installation and make a shortcut to the ps1 script on the desktop. If you have powershell scripts locked down you may need to add a key at the bottom to allow it to run.

To use the script, open Bambu Studio first then run the script and browse to the device tab and click the + in the left hand menu to bring up discovered printers.

I hope it works for you.

And the real answer will put you on a list.

I’m going to save your comment for now. I have a script that I use at work that helps with printer detection because we have a very similar issue. I’ll try to post it here if I remember.

Running the script after launching Bambu studio helps with detection of the printer. Only caveat is that you have to run it every time you launch Bambu studio.

It’s nothing malicious, I’ll just post the code for you with the important bits that need to be changed noted.

Thanks for pointing that out, I’ll definitely have to take a look.

I’m not much for watching YouTube videos for that info, I’d rather read an article with links to the data or information.

According to the bambulab blog (on the official bambulab website) they explicitly state that you are free to downgrade or not upgrade and your printer will still work.

Edit: they even have a specific note about users that never want to upgrade and it states that it is fine, and their printers will still function.

It’s not that difficult to go into your router and just block all external traffic from a device so yes I trust mine not to phone home.

They don’t automatically update.

Unless that’s something new, mine has never updated automatically, it always asks me.

Did you click on it?

It comes up high res for me.

The P1S by Bambu Labs, while not the cheapest (on sale now for 550$ without an ams) pretty much just works.

I’ve done PLA and PETG (various brands) using default settings and the thing just works. I’ve also used polycarbonate but that required a small amount of tweaking.

I guess it also depends on what you’re trying to print. If you are going to be printing figurines that you will paint, you might be better off getting a resin printer, though I can’t speak much to those as I haven’t used them, but we do use anycubic at work and I’ve seen some pretty good looking models come out of them.

I’ve also heard good things about the A1/A1 mini (also Bambu) from coworkers.

We probably have 30 or so 3D printers at work including a nylon powder 3D printer which is amazing but I’m not sure of the brand, and it’s probably expensive because it stands about 4.5 ft tall.

I just downloaded rufus and a mint iso, here’s a couple screen grabs.

Launch rufus, and plug in your usb stick, it should show up under device.

From there click select on the right side. Browse to where you have the ISO you got from the linux mint website and select it.

Once you get back to the other screen hit start.

You shouldn’t need to mess with any settings unless you are using secure boot.

Once that’s done, you should restart and boot from the USB stick. Depending on the model of your laptop there are different methods to get into the bios to change the settings to allow booting from usb. If it goes into grub mode it will look like a command prompt with a few selections. Just hit enter on the first option and it will boot into the live usb.

Once you are in the live usb mode, it’s basically all gui to install, test, etc.

Nowadays the terminal stuff is not really needed for basic use, so you should be able to get spun up pretty easy.

The process is actually simple.

It can be a little daunting at first because it’s new, but don’t let that discourage you. You can mostly ignore the whole mirrors thing, just pick one that is geographically close to you to hopefully get a better download speed. Outside of that, all the mirrors lead to the same file just in a different physical location.

Installing another software to make a bootable drive. You can use Rufus, which has a portable version so there’s no need to install it. I put a link below, there’s one in the downloads list that says portable.

https://rufus.ie/en/

There are plenty of step by step tutorials out there, however since Linux is very open, a lot of guides may give different advice and knowing what to/not to do can feel confusing. (For instance, if you have an SSD in your computer, you really shouldn’t use a swap partition unless you absolutely have to due to limited RAM.) In most cases though you can get by with the defaults when installing something like mint.

That being said. You could simply make the boot stick and try out the live version of the OS before committing to wiping any of your drives to install the OS. Just know that running the live version from the boot stick will be slow, it may take a little time for things to boot which is normal since you are running the os off of a USB stick.

If you would like some help I could try to give you some guidance. I would just want to know the specs/model of your computer so I can make sure I lead you in the right direction.

Because your 0$ per month after dropping them doesn’t hurt their bottom line.

Corporations generally weigh the risks and the benefit often wins out and they make more money because there are enough people that either reluctantly cave into the fee increase, forgot about their subscription or just don’t care that it’s going up.

It’s fairly seldom (but seems to be increasing over the years) to see so much backlash that a company walks back on what they were planning to do.

They probably will if they get a takedown request.

I’m guessing you are uploading US related material by your comment.

If you are concerned about it, like maybe you have an account that you don’t want to lose, then make another account and upload it.

You are right, it’s really not cut and dry in today’s age.

Could be something like the way I have my son’s tablet setup. If he tries to install something, I get a notification to approve it on my phone.

I can disable or enable the device at any point and have active times setup on it so it automatically does that if I’m not manually managing it.

BUT, that requires the parent to be actively engaging in what their kids are doing while trying to not be helicopters over them. You can setup home networks to block stuff like that also, but that requires some technical knowledge that a lot of people may not want to deal with. Also, that has no bearing on what is done outside of the home.

Also the age of the kid is a huge factor, a 13 year old is going to have a higher ability to get around those restrictions.

So now we’re at the point of basically saying, there’s not a really good defined way of doing that. However, if we ask for a copy of your ID, that’s adds a decent protective layer. BUUUT, that’s going to throw up red flags to everyone who wants to protect themselves and doesn’t want their info out there like that. Which we all know there are data breaches and bad actors out there (like Tesla employees sharing videos from people’s cars) so it’s reasonable to not want to provide stuff like that.

Now at this point we’re kinda back to square one what can be done to manage this, be secure, and appease both sides of the table?