Disclaimer, this story is just made up. Sorry for the language in this post, I really have some beef with some guys who attack a few persons whom which desparately disagree with BBL.
The Weird Story
There is a boy, let call him A, having a relationship with a girl B. The girl B promised a lot of things: buy me presents, buy me this buy me that and I’ll have s3x with you then I’ll do this do that for you (let say Kama Sutra styles). The boy A bought a lot of things for girl B, but then the girl B changed her mind she woundn’t do XXX style with him as promised.
The boy called her out for going against her promises, but then the girl went on “tweeter” and gaslighted the boy and say she would only have s3x in her bed room with her security camera on, that is for “his protection”.
Then the girl force the boy to contact her using only “wechat”, which is a software of her father’s company, she wouldn’t use “telegram”, which is a free opensource software. “Telegram” had many feature the boy likes and a special feature that can cross-talk to wechat but then the girl ask her father to cut off cross-talk from telegram. So now the boy had to use “wechat” only if he wants to communicate with her.
Here is how he communicates with the girl: he opens his phone, start telegram, type in the message that well formated to his heart content, then copy the message, open wechat, paste that message into wechat and hit send. So yeah, the boy felt frustrated, desperated, and finally gave up.
There is a person C, a bystander, who probaly has some benefits from “wechat” or doing business on “wechat”, I don’t know. This person C mocks and laughs at boy A whom which aleady threw white flag and tweeted that he gave up the relation ship with girl B.
There is also a guy D who also really likes the girl B. This guy D doesn’t care about the girl’s “security camera” recording them “having s3x”. He says, it doesn’t matter as he is nobody and how can girl B hurt him with those recoding? So yeah, as long as the “s3x” is good, everything is fine. And so he keeps doing what he wants to do with the girl.
The story ends here. Only time will tell if there is any development. Meanwhile, the girl B keeps inventing multiple kama sutra styles, and they actually look good and perform good.
I feel sorry for boy A, and yes A is for naive. I don’t condemn girl B, in spite of B as in bitch. It’s how she does her bussiness, I guess. But being mean and mocking a walkaway, just like person C did, is what I can’t stand. So yeah, C is for cunt. I understand C is currently making good money on “wechat”, so “wechat” going down means he loses money. He probably feels threaten by someone’s remotely talking bad about “wechat”. And lastly, D is for don’t care.
The Translation
This story is weird, I know, but just replace some words here and there and it would make sense:
| girl B | Bambu Lab |
| having s3x / kama sutra style | 3D printing / 3D printer / Terms of service |
| security camera recordings | BBL cloud server storage in China and by Chinese law, it will be handled to the CCP if asked |
| BBL cloud / BambuStudio / Bambu Connect | |
| telegram | OrcaSlicer |
| tweeter | BBL forum / BBL blog |
| person C | BBL fanboys who keep defending BBL and mocking people about raising concerns |
| guy D | me, writer of this blog |
The Verdict
Before the Bambu Connect happened, I was the guy D. But now, my P1S stays behind firewall with old firmware 1.07 to use with OrcaSlicer. It will stay like that until I squeeze out the work equal to AU$1500 investment. Then it is to the bin.
Let say, I loved (past tense) BBL printers. They are fast, accurate and super convenience compare to similar price range. But BBL broke the trust in me. The ship has sailed and it won’t come back.
I know I am nobody, the sales gain by individuals like me is just a small fraction of printer sales, say 0.001 per cent, so that my voice has no weight, just like shouting out in an empty room and no one hears. So, I suck it up and move on.
It is true that BambuLab is very smart to target the masses (the Average Joe) and bring them the convenience of handy app. That is just with a few taps on the phone, and voila, a success 3D print without the long hours tinkering or steep learning curve of 3D printing.
Well, I am not jealous with the money BBL make. I just feel bitter with years I’ve spent tinkering and building 3D printers but the prints didn’t look as good as what BBL printers can print. And now people having a perfect print and take it for granted. Those kind of people who would blame a 15 minutes print failure on the designer who spent days to perfect the model. That was the reason I removed all of my designs on printables and thingiverse. I just can’t deal with those ungrateful people. I’ll probably do the same on makerworld.
Okay. Up until now, I’ve been sharing my knowledge about 3D printing and help people with 3D printing in BBL forum. I will stop doing so.
If you feel like reading more, go to here https://consumerrights.wiki/w/Bambu_Lab
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