Jokes on you, my printers are 100% opensource and I program them with the code I want.
this post was submitted on 22 Jan 2026
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Get on the ground, hands behind your back! Bang bang bang bang bang!
Yup, we got another suicide on our hands..
Sprinkle some coke on him and bake him away, toys
He shouldn't have resisted.
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That's Washington state, not DC.
Surveillance capitalism and the fascists always find a way to debase everything good that people like.
Uncommon Washington State L
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So reading the commentary in the first link, if you flash your printer with new GPL firmware that bypasses these restrictions, you're now in violation.
And what if I move (back) to WA with my printer purchased out of state that I've already modded?
I see what they're trying to do, make ghost gun production illegal, but turning makers into criminals for flashing their printers with new firmware seems the wrong way.
It always is. Always blanket laws that cover so many legal things to get normal law abiding citizens in a bind.
it is, and they don't understand that the hardware on a 3d printer isn't capable of analyzing what it's about to print like that, it's not even close. People average laptop couldn't even analyze a random part and give a reasonable estimate of how likely it is a gun part unless it's an exact match, but if you tweak 1 thing it would be lost.
I don't think these lawmakers have any clue how anything works. 3d modeling, slicing, and firmware would all have to have spyware in it and be uploading data to the cloud to be analyzed for this to be remotely possible. Not only is that financially impractical, it's logistically impossible.
There's definitely a little bit of this going on.
I wonder if Nvidia is leaning on them a bit. Like, create a regulatory requirement for something for one of their bullshit datacenters to do now that Microslop has said "we need to find something useful for AI to do or we're not going to be able to live the lie much longer" out loud almost verbatim?
I outright don't know if this is even possible. I mean...
What's that? I bet 60% of people who have touched one of those couldn't identify what it is by sight. Should I be allowed to print that?
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For a printer to be compliant, it mustn't be possible to bypass the restrictions. So your printer might not even be legal if it allows you to flash custom firmware.
identify and reject print requests for firearms or illegal firearm parts with a high degree of reliability and cannot be overridden or otherwise defeated by a user with significant technical skill.
Or if I have a printer now and don't update it.
So Amazon can buy the data, know what we're printing, steal the designs and make a product for it, capturing the market they only know existed by spying on us. Knowledge is power and I'd rather not further empower the psychopaths who are primarily responsible for the widespread reduction of our qol. But the idiot masses won't give a fuck because they're foolish and never think anything they want to do is bad.
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They haven't stopped at printers, they have everything now constructed to spy. Even a lot of things that have no legitimate purpose being connected to the internet. Soon we will not be able to find the non "smart" devices. We can't take batteries out of electronics that can spy on us anymore. It's a federal felony now to alter the programming on an electronic you bought as well.
People who can't imagine that should try buying a non-smart TV. It's fucking impossible, unless 24-32 inch are enough for you (PC monitor size).
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Washington state.
O just love that true one single product bthat allows you to replicate itself in an open non spy way now must have spyware.
Politicians are idiots
Do they not understand how this works? People will just stop buying printers and switch to building them.
Then they'll make owning an unregistered 3D printer a felony.
The same way having an unregistered firearm already is?
Lmao no they fucking won’t. I mean maybe like 0.5% of consumers, or less, will. Some number that pales in comparison to the amount that just buy a bambu because “it’s just easier, FOSS needs to get on usability and make it so that it just works 🤷♀️” while failing to see that their utter laziness and incompetence to solve even the mildest of problems and expecting everything to “just work” in exchange for money always means trading their rights and privacy away.
Look at the people that complain about jellyfin but then also complain about plex becoming increasingly hostile. Look at the people complaining about Linux but also whining about windows descent into madness. Etc etc. and in cases like this the buy in cost is nothing but your time! You think the average consumer, who openly invites corporations to fuck them, is gonna be like “hmm I’m gonna spend money to build a solution.”
No goddamn way. They’re gonna bitch about the legislation, they’re gonna bitch about how things got this way, then they’re gonna give bambu and anycubic and Microsoft and openai and Google and apple etc etc all their money. They’ll probably sign up for subscriptions with each company
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When was the last time a legislator understood the legislation they were passing?
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No, they won't. Some will. Most won't. Ring cameras still overtake the market. Windows still overtakes the market. Amazon Alexa still overtakes the market. People, en large, don't gaf about privacy. I wish they did.
Heeeeeyyyyyy. I have a k1c with cfs, is there open source support? I’m dumb, I like the printer, and the cfs is alright. Not thrilled about the opaque software and definitely not thrilled with ‘cloud intrgration’
I have a Prusa XL, and the reason is, Prusa is (still) mostly open-source. And quite frankly it's the only reason why I stick with Prusa, because technically they're behind the curve.
I don't get why they insist on sticking to their own somewhat inferior software platform when a good, 100% open source, and better performing alternative exists with klipper.
Same. Still like their support and community too. It's not so far behind that I feel like it's a compromise to the point where I can get it to do everything I want it to do. I'm paying for my open source preference and the support / community instead of the most modern fancy features. I want both, but I'd still choose the former especially when the latter seems to involve more and more privacy infringement.
I’m paying for my open source preference and the support / community instead of the most modern fancy features. I want both, but I’d still choose the former
I try to apply the same logic whenever I can too.
For instance, my laptop is a MNT Reform: it's a very good laptop, but it's literally 6 times the price of a comparatively-specced laptop from a big-box store.
And my cellphone is a Fairphone 5 running Ubuntu Touch. I chose the Fairphone for the repairability and increased openness, but it's also 2 to 3 times the price of a more common brand cellphone with similar performances. And Ubuntu Touch itself comes with its own set of restrictions, but that's the price of trying to be as free from the Android ecosystem as possible.
So yeah, you can do open, but the choice is very limited and you pay a lot for the privilege.
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🩷🩷🩷I’ll check it out! Thanks so much!
Creality Helper Script is a must have. My K1C has run it through the very first second. Getting as much open source (for a reasonable budget) and control on my marines is the main decision factor for my purchases.
You'll have people selling custom eproms and/or firmware to bypass it.
Everything is about surveillance nowadays. Doesn't anyone worry about being vexed anymore? Are there nanobots in my Snickers bar checking out my duodenum?
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