Prusa-Firmware-Buddy

Speaking about Prusa, my experience has been that they’re very condescending to users. Extremely basic features (like serial printing) are considered “nice to have”. Some tickets have remained open for over 6 years now and ignored by prusa: - https://github.com/prusa3d/Prusa-Firmware-Buddy/issues/189 (still open after 6+ years) - https://github.com/prusa3d/Prusa-Firmware-Buddy/issues/283 (took 3.5 years to acknowledge and fix)

Prusa has fallen very much behind. There are open issues about the Mini and the MK4 that have been open for years and still ignored by Prusa. Table stakes like full compatibility with octoprint. For instance: https://github.com/prusa3d/Prusa-Firmware-Buddy/issues/189 (over 5 years old)

>I don't believe QOI will ever have any sort of real-world practical use Prusa (the 3d printer maker) seems to think otherwise! https://github.com/prusa3d/Prusa-Firmware-Buddy/releases/tag...

https://github.com/prusa3d/Prusa-Firmware-Buddy Not open source? Odd, as I just read it's source code. Are you referring to licensing, ability to modify and compile yourself, or some else?

I have a lot of respect for Armin, but it's pretty clear he doesn't really understand the specifics of what he's talking about here. > people are complaining (The MK4 firmware is not Open Source) the link here is to a reddit post (https://www.reddit.com/r/prusa3d/comments/10g6fgv/prusa_givi...) in which the complaint is not only not about the MK4's firmware, it's also not even about something not being open source. Specifically, that complaint is that PrusaSlicer (the software which turns a 3D model file into GCode instructions for the printer to follow - think PostScript, but for a 3D printer) is not developed as an open project. PrusaSlicer is open source, but most of the development happens internally at Prusa. It's a legitimate complaint, but not at all the complaint Armin claims it to be. For the record, the Mk4 firmware is also open

The Prusa mini has an ethernet port, so people assumed that you could hook it up to your LAN and print over the network. As far as I can tell, that doesn't work yet, and the Prusa website [1] says: > Full control of your printer will be added in future releases Edit: It looks like remote printing was released in a Firmware update in Nov 2022 [2] and the documentation website wasn't updated yet. [1]: https://help.prusa3d.com/article/prusa-connect-local-mini_13... [2]: https://github.com/prusa3d/Prusa-Firmware-Buddy/releases

Why would a bootloader ever be considered part of the same program—they don't even ever run at the same time. Also, this person (https://github.com/prusa3d/Prusa-Firmware-Buddy/issues/1440#...) misread the GPL, when they said this: > but the license clearly states that it is not an aggregate if they are combined to form a larger program in or on a storage or distribution medium The GPL very much does not say that: > which are not combined with it such as to form a larger program, in or on a volume of a storage or distribution medium, is called an “aggregate”