I also activated my acount to post here.
For many of us, Quality is the main requirement in a 3D Printer and your printers have been an excellent product in the Quality/Price category. I don’t mind the locked down printer parts because replacements are affordable and readily available.
However, second to a printer’s Quality is Freedom. The freedom to design, print and test things in our own homes, to do things our way. I didn’t mind connecting to your Bambu Cloud services because it was convenient and didn’t remove any Freedom I had in the control of my printer. This arbitrary lockdown will remove the perceived value of my Freedom/Choice for no discernable benefit (to us.)
Whatever you decide with Authorization changes, it no longer matters to me. I will be switching my printer to LAN mode and blocking its access to the internet. As for buying more Bambu Printers in the future… I will wait until someone releases open source firmware before making any of your Bambu Printers → mine.
Sincerely,
Once a Fan,
now a Customer
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This is not an improvement. This is not increasing security. This is unwanted lockdown taking away control over the device on the local area network from the user, making it reliant on the manufacturer’s mercy.
This allows the manufacturer to charge additional money, e.g., if you want to integrate your printer into a print farm management system. It enforces users to use a proprietary application from the manufacturer on their PC, which may or may not be available for all operating systems.
This is reason enough not to buy nor recommend Bambu Lab printers anymore.
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I’m a user you never would have heard of. I would have just kept using my printer and likely bought another one, as well as your consumable products.
This course of action forces me to become a voice of dissent in your community, and reconsider my purchase of both your printers and consumables.
Should a force of cloud services come into effect, I will have to reconsider if I even want to keep my Bambu printer, or replace it with another of whatever my second printer will be.
When one purchases a product, they are purchasing it as it is when they buy it. When you change how a product operates after it’s purchased, you are stealing functionality the customer has already paid you for. This is tantamount to theft.
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thats not the “feedback” they wanted to read.
my printer is not gonna update this time. gonna use LAN ONLY from now till they fix this problem there are options to disconnect your printer from the internet and not you LAN. Bambuhandy is removed from my phone
