Disable Printables tab in Prusaslicer?  

RE: Disable Printables tab in Prusaslicer?

Disappointing to see Prusa slide down this rabbit hole of unfreedom... 🙁

For some reason I had never clicked on it - but in looking into this issue I tried - and PrusaSlicer crashed.   Puppy Linux + Flatpak. 

[Edit: On checking I think it's Flatpak that crashed - no matter.]

In one sense it's a little disappointing as this feature was the whole point of the WebKit/Flatpak adventure - which would have been unnecessary if the Devs hadn't been so keen to get rid of Perl, but on the other hand I can't imagine any scenario where I would attempt to use the facility so I don't really care.

Agreed, it would be nice to be able to configure it off.

Cheerio,

RE: Disable Printables tab in Prusaslicer?

For anyone willing to build from source, it's easy to hide via a one-line change:

https://github.com/m00dawg/PrusaSlicer/commit/c8d2a4fcdecfac421b1128b35dbd76ed7232b462

Makes me irked and sad I have to do this in the first place. Some of the UI changes I really don't like (not being able to use TAB across X/Y/Z parameters for example). I'm also rather vocal about the need to bring back a save-able Live-Adjust-Z to the MK$/XL (and I assume Core) firmware. Great printers, but I think the project managers over there are not doing the company any favors.

RE: Disable Printables tab in Prusaslicer?

So if I can't disable this 'feature' how do I remove all of my credentials from PrusaSlicer so it can't accidentally divulge said credentials to some hacked website?

RE: Disable Printables tab in Prusaslicer?

HA HA Prusa got you, and so many more.

Delete the software completely, reg and all, then only install the portable versions and make sure to block any uploads to their info collecting servers via your fire wall.

It takes knowledge, Prusa collects your info and sells it, as well they dis-inform and confound, the company isn't run by the founders anymore, and your only worth a buck to them. They used to print (sheep) on their hardware, and pretend not to know why. 🤣 

Good luck, but it can be blocked, and the software is still the best thing going for those that can figure out how to really use it.

Regards

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Sounds like you've set up your firewalls: what are the ip addresses Prusa is using for this?

ps: Why does Prusa Slicer need INBOUND connection privileges but not outbound?  Hmm. 

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Tim sorry I'm not going to post that information here, however If you implement a packet sniffing software on your home/office network you can retrieve that information and put it to good use. Be aware that Prusa forums and Printable's tries to punish this behavior, but it can certainly be blocked and dealt with in a functional way. While I am admittedly apposed to companies acting in this way, Prusa played their cards early on in version 2.4 and gave fair warning, the reason for my Sarcastic HA HA in my previous post, they didn't hide the fact, and in today's world that's almost (But not ) admirable.

Your data, what you do and who you are, is worth more then your being a customer. That's today's world. Ever heard of "Gorge Orwell" no longer conspiracy, now fact.

Good Luck compadre, learn more, you can protect yourself.

RE: Disable Printables tab in Prusaslicer?

I've done what was needed ... but yeah, this making of a web browser by Prusa is just one more chink in their armor. But then the world moving to a dependency on everything connected and authorized thru a cell phone is one of those mysteries in life, and seems Prusa has to follow that trail to stay in business. 

Up side in all this is I found Prusa Slicer on Windows at some recent release now accepts incoming connections from any ip address anywhere in the world. That was a surprise. Fixed now, but seriously? I don't even allow that with games I know might need remote access. 

Too many rants regarding this new Core One right now.  Wondering at this point if it can print as nicely as my ten year old Mk3.  So far, it's not even in the ballpark.

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I also own several MK3 printers, original Mk3 printers, and some of them, I reverted them from S after buying S's and then bought +'s and built Original MK3's out of them, old firmware and all, and they work better then the new MK3's and anything after. I didn't join in the print it faster fad, this is just a way to sell more printers and get more people to give up their info for sale. No real advantage to printing faster, the results are worse print to print and the end result, giving up your anonymity for the companies dollar, most folks will laugh at this.

As well, most , and I mean most, don't even know how to use the Slic3r software in a meaningful way, I would challenge any user to prove me wrong. It's an extremely sad community state, controlled by disinformation and lack of education among community members. The community tends to convey poor information that they themself have not confirmed, but heard from somewhere else and without confirmation try to convey as though they know to be true.

I,m trying not to rant about this, but if invited too, I would go off on this community, it's extremely sad, and coming from the 80's, mind you I graduated then, I was part of, well and still am part of, some extremely great communities, Blender from it's inception, Photoshop, All current Autodesk products, from the beginning,meaning before Autodesk ever bought them out,Gimp, generic Cadd , Keycadd, ect.. so many and I was a part of their development as well.

I'm no slouch. This community is a let down. I know folks in this community that could show things in a way that would scare the Developers, or rather their bosses.

Hmm, Maybe some day, If we care too.

Regards

RE: Disable Printables tab in Prusaslicer?

Posted by: @snuffleupagus

... Ever heard of "Gorge Orwell" ...

Mr Orwell would be more than shocked when reading "2025"

pea

RE: Disable Printables tab in Prusaslicer?

@snuffleupagus  👍 "Liked"

Mr Orwell would be more than shocked when reading "2025"

pea

I would have simply pushed the Like button, However they "Prusa" removed the importance of likes, by removing your ability to see who liked it.

I'm sure that was all part of the plan.

RE: Disable Printables tab in Prusaslicer?

The only temporary solution seems to block Průša Slicer in firewall. It is absolute nonsense to make www browser from slicing utility. WWW browsers are regullary updated to prevent many backdoors. Průša Slicer is turning into a dangerous Moloch app.

RE: Disable Printables tab in Prusaslicer?

Or build from source and make the change suggested in post #5 above to make the Printables tab disappear. Double click on the image to see it without cropping.

RE: Disable Printables tab in Prusaslicer?

Posted by: @walter-layher

Or build from source and make the change suggested in post #5 above to make the Printables tab disappear. Double click on the image to see it without cropping.

Can confirm, this method still works. I built from main a few days ago. It takes a while but it does the job. In my case I have to build it either way since Prusa no longer supports AppImage. Both kind of disappointing (and while I'm throwing shade, adding back in things like print completion so I can get mQTT updates from OctoPrint would be nice). Another option is to switch to something like OracSlicer or SuperSlicer.

RE: Disable Printables tab in Prusaslicer?

Before 2 years I have attempted to compile Průša Slicer and I have failed. There was a problem with boost library, I do not know which version to use.

I have Visual Studio 2019, I do not know whether it is sufficient enough to compile Průša Slicer.

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I am on Linux and the build tools are practically already a part of the system there and I need and use them to compile other software as well.
You mention VS 2019 so I suppose you are on Windows? Some years ago I managed to compile PrusaSlicer on Windows 10 as well. The build instructions for Windows mention running a script that should perform all the steps once the prerequisite software packages (MSVC, CMake and git) are installed. So far I have not bothered to install them since I switched my Windows (laptop and VM) to 11, so I have not tried this on Windows 11 yet. Perhaps I'll try over the weekend if the instructions from Prusa are still valid for Windows 11.

RE: Disable Printables tab in Prusaslicer?

I have a build process running, which has not finished yet. But at first glance it seems important which vcrsion of CMake is used. I tried first with cmake-4.2.3 and the build process failed with lots of errors during the dep phase of the build. Then I looked into the github issues and saw somebody mention using an older version of CMake. So I deinstalled my version 4.2.3 and installed version 3.31.11. Then  I restarted the build (using Visual Studio Community 17 2022)  and it is still running at the moment with no errors so far. I'll report back with the final result later.

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Well, the build was successful. I had to install python separately, which is not mentioned in the build instructions on github. When the dep build reached the package dep_z3, it failed and complained about missing python executable. I installed python and the build continued without further problems.

After that I followed the steps in the guide to build via Visual Studio. It took a while, because I had not disabled the debug build, but it was successful and the Printables tab is no longer there.

These are the apps I installed for my build on Windows 11. Please click on the screenshots to see them without cropping.

This is the content of the build folder with the release files.

And this is the system info in the newly built PrusaSlicer.