That was the idea. Tech companies don‘t want us to have nice things because it makes their products look all the more shitty. And so they attack anything open source that they don‘t directly benefit from. Some investors are probably seeing the shitty ink printer business and hope they can degrade 3D printing to that degree too. They take any opportunity to fuck the small people for a chance of making an easy buck.
Meanwhile, you can go to the hardware store and make yourself a shotgun for less than the cost of a fast food meal but nobody is talking about regulating pipes.
This has nothing to do with the tech industry. This is the firearms industry 100%.
What they want is not about guns. It’s about checking all your prints to make sure you are not printing something you can buy retail, or an overpriced plastic appliance part.
Fuck BAMBU labs, let’s get back to air gapped printers.
Well to be fair as a REALLY big fan of 3dprinting bambulab printers are extremely reliable.But… Yeah no one need to know who I am and what I print
laughs in PRUSA
“Scans for 3D printed firearm” yeah okay. It’s totally going to detect that with 100% accuracy.
Same basic technology as Hotdog or Not Hotdog.
Idiots who don’t understand 3D printers pass laws regulating 3D printers to supposedly prevent gun violence. Gun violence unaffected. News at 11.
I wonder how many “Ban Boaty!” t-shirts I can sell to propenents of this.
It’s almost like a strong, centralized government with power over our everyday lives can be easily subverted into doing things we don’t really want it to do.
Huh
Weird.
