• Bronzebeard@lemmy.zip
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    2 days ago

    Except 3d printing has a much bigger open source community than 2d printers have.

    There’s already software out there that can optimize the output file of a slicer - effectively rewriting the gcode. Removing any watermarks at the code level seems pretty trivial, even if every single slicer company relented and added this function

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      15 hours ago

      Presumably this would be handled by the printer firmware and just slightly change the extrusion rate, regardless of the gcode.

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          12 hours ago

          That’s true, and that also goes for printers. However most people will use it out-of-the-box. The people who want to avoid tracking, yeah, this won’t do shit.