u/Frustrated_Consumer

So I'm in New York, and they just passed a law cracking down on 3d printers, with more laws on the way. I'm so sad, I literally just got a brand new Qidi Q2 a few weeks ago after only running a stock ender 5 for 7 years. I've been enthusiastic about printing for so long, and now that I finally get a really capable printer, and this happens.

The online network features were so nice, even being able to watch my print from a distance, but I have to think practically now. Being that I don't want the government looking at, questioning, randomly blocking and investigating any of my prints that an AI hallucination says looks too much like a gun part, I disconnected my Q2 from my internet network.

But I want to guarantee my safety here. What do I need to do to make sure this thing is fully air gapped, that it'll never be connected to a network ever again? Does the printer try to reach out to internet networks on its own, how would I stop that? I got the Qidi Box with it, does that thing try to connect to anything? I would need to stop that as well.

And is there any way to still see the Fluidd interface without connecting anything to the internet? I've been messing with some Klipper settings from the comfort of my desktop computer, and I imagine I'd still want to do so in the future. Is there any way I can still do that? Maybe I connect the printer with a wire to an old laptop that's not connected to the internet? I don't know.

So I'm in New York, and they just passed a law cracking down on 3d printers, with more laws on the way. I'm so sad, I literally just got a brand new Qidi Q2 a few weeks ago after only running a stock ender 5 for 7 years. I've been enthusiastic about printing for so long, and now that I finally get a really capable printer, and this happens.

The online network features were so nice, even being able to watch my print from a distance, but I have to think practically now. Being that I don't want the government looking at, questioning, randomly blocking and investigating any of my prints that an AI hallucination says looks too much like a gun part, I disconnected my Q2 from my internet network.

But I want to guarantee my safety here. What do I need to do to make sure this thing is fully air gapped, that it'll never be connected to a network ever again? Does the printer try to reach out to internet networks on its own, how would I stop that? I got the Qidi Box with it, does that thing try to connect to anything? I would need to stop that as well.

And is there any way to still see the Fluidd interface without connecting anything to the internet? I've been messing with some Klipper settings from the comfort of my desktop computer, and I imagine I'd still want to do so in the future. Is there any way I can still do that? Maybe I connect the printer with a wire to an old laptop that's not connected to the internet? I don't know.

It was Dad's birthday. The family was getting together at 6pm yesterday. Grandma was cooking a nice dinner. We would all cut the cake. It would be a wonderful evening.

I haven't posted here before, but I'm pretty firmly stuck in the free-running N24 life. 25 hour days on average. What's left of my circadian rhythm has had me lined up to fall asleep in the early afternoon these past few days. On top of that, I've had afternoon/evening things to do recently, so I've been repeatedly disturbing my sleep this past week. I've been getting pretty tired.

Yesterday, I made it to 2pm before my eyes practically shut themselves. I tried to get up for the 6pm cake, but I missed it. I was so tired, I slept straight through to 1am.

I feel pretty bad about it. Apparently, I heard that without me, Dad didn't want to take the cake out. Everyone got mad at everyone else. It ended up being a mess. I just wasn't strong enough to wake up. Another important birthday missed. At least I feel well rested today.