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New comment by ifloop in "Restore full BambuNetwork support for Bambu Lab printers"

ifloop — Wed, 13 May 2026 14:22:44 +0000

well, but it could be. Of course, more complicated to set up, but this connection could be VPN or anything and the printer is (similar to a 2D printer with IPP or similar) just a host with some ports which have to be reachable.

My A1 still has the old firmware where mqtt is exposed - this totally works for me to tinker with, and I don't understand their motivation to cut us off.

I also don't understand their stance to limit client software - I found a bunch of bugs in their package, filed one in their github project, and never heard anything of it, while they continue to ship features. So they don't care for their software (or linux users?). They should allow the community to fix their shortcomings.

New comment by ifloop in "Niri 26.04: Scrollable-tiling Wayland compositor"

ifloop — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 17:42:22 +0000

I'm on hyprland (which also has a scrolling layout). How do you guys navigate between your workspaces? I'm accomodated to super+, which jumps to workspace # with a mostly fixed purpose. If I opened something ad-hoc, I usually know where I placed it. I found it difficult to operate in a setting which more resembles the state of my desk (if it weren't random access).

New comment by ifloop in "CadQuery is an open-source Python library for building 3D CAD models"

ifloop — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 13:47:59 +0000

I have written a lot of openSCAD code, I learned about BOSL(2) and wrote even more, I tried getting into build123d (and failed, as running openSCAD/BOSL2 is way too comfortable to leave it)... the only downside is that AI fails horribly with those libs and frameworks.

I think I heard of cadquery before and decided against it, in favor of build123d.