Everything you described sounds like a dystopian nightmare straight out of Upload.

We never were, considering we are literally animals.

T H E O R B

In this case it’s linux. I am prepared to pay gobs for proper linux devices. However, I’d rather something like a liberux Nexx if that thing ever comes to fruition.

Are we married to this idea?

You’re gonna hate this, but… AI can literally do it, and for the large models it’s terrifying how accurate they are. You will argue that your little ESP32 powered reprap or klipper or whatever printer can’t handle it, to which regulators will go ok then, either the printer has to call out to a service with an http request to upload the gcode every time it wants to print anything, or your slicer has to do it (and we dont care that it’s open source, it’s illegal to operate if it doesnt make the call and you’re getting fines or jail time if you get caught).

This is what AI was built for 😟

EDIT:

In case it isn’t abundantly clear, I am not in favor of what I just described. I know that it is possible though and know how to architect exactly these mechanisms. If I can build them, so can they. (I won’t, of course, that goes against everything I stand for).