We weren't talking about whether the registry was better or worse, we were talking about how similar the two OSes were.

Scrcpy is fantastic, no idea how it Just Works™ so smoothly and painlessly, but it does.

At least your use case would be served well by enabling LAN mode, which doesn't let the printer talk to the internet, even if you want it to (and I want mine to).

The problem is trust. I don't want to get into an adversarial relationship with my printer over networking.

I could enable LAN mode and trust the mode does what it says.

I could trust others firmware reverse engineering to verify LAN mode does what it says.

I could isolate it on it's own wifi and I could block it at the home firewall from accessing the internet, to be sure.

But it was easier to simply leave it off my network.

Yeah, fair enough. I have a VLAN with no Internet access for those devices, it's convenient.

Why should I have to send all my prints to Bambu when the printer is sitting right next to me? Why do I have to choose between being able to stop my printer remotely or Bambu not tracking my every move, when it's trivial to have both?

it's because you're the product and they want the designs i think

I don't think so. They can already track popularity very effectively because they control makerworld, and they could have Bambu studio, the app, and the printer phone home too. I don't think they care enough about the tiny tiny minority of users running orca with a LAN only printer.

More likely, it's technical incompetence. It's just easier (for their cloud) to send everything through their cloud

I think OP meant designs which are not on MakerWorld. And I think technical incompetence is not a reason here otherwise they wouldn't gatekeep the access so much.

If the bad guys get paid and release the info anyway, they not only make it less likely they'll get paid in the future, they make it less likely anyone will get paid in the future.

Even other bad guys have an incentive to stop these bad guys from leaking the info after getting paid.

Why not wait a week and take the site down and ransom them again?

for the same reasons?

Because why would anyone pay anyone if they were going to do what they threatened you with anyway?

How would that have helped in their other markets?

"You can't use any client you want because of security" is bullshit, as if hackers will care what client you'd like them to use or not when they're trying to hack your infrastructure.

This is just Bambu alienating their customer base, again.

“But I checked the evil bit and it was off!!!” (https://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3514.txt)

I don't know, do people exist who will run 220 V wiring through their house, even though a few mm of plastic separate the two wires from conflagration? Who use devices running on thousands of volts, with mere inches separating their hands from death?

Perhaps one or two.

One time there was construction/renovation going on one floor below mine. I'm talking sledgehammers, jackhammers, the whole shebang.

For some reason, I've never slept better. Every little noise generally wakes me up (like someone walking in the same room) but the demolition noises kind of numbed me to all audio, apparently.

I also somehow sleep better when I leave a window open, and get some morning sun and noise? Though in that case, loud motorcycles revving will probably wake me up, but random people talking/shouting is fine.

It's especially tiring how apparently datacenters were invented last year. Datacenters were fine when you were using them to encode video for the billionth mindless TikTok short, but AI suddenly made them the scourge of the earth?