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Louis Rossman just dropped a rant about this: https://youtu.be/aIyaDD8onIE
7.4 "Your Bambu Lab product will automatically search for and download new update packages to provide you with timely update services... Due to the importance of these updates, your product may block new print job (sic) before the updates is installed"
wow.
I do hope this backfires on them considerably.
Eh. I'm sure they'll continue to pay enough influencers to gush about their products all the time to keep sales running strong well into the foreseeable future.
Remember that a significant population of people deliberately buy Apple products, among other firmly closed, enshittified, and user-hostile products/systems. The majority of consumers are sadly not educated enough to care and their money is still indeed green.
They're trying hard to couch this as a security thing but I remain unconvinced that the "threats" they're positing actually exist. Do you even leave your printer connected to the outside internet anyway? I sure as shit don't.
The only person they're locking out of your printer with this is you. This is to keep you walled within their own bullshit software ecosystem as much as possible, and the only possible benefit of that is so they can inflict further restrictions later, probably in the hopes of making the software side of their crap a subscription model so they can extort you for that sweet recurring revenue.
Their bambu filament has an RFID tag in it, presumably so you don't have to tell the printer what kind of filament is loaded. I would bet big $$ that is going to be used to lock out third party filament at some point. Calling it here and now.
The RFID is only used by the AMS. As long as they support direct filament insertion without an AMS, and they have to if they want to support TPU and other exotics, then they can't lock out 3rd party filament.
Then why implement over the top security and encryption in said RFID tags if it's only for AMS compatibility? The fact they went to so much trouble is writing on the wall that some time in the future they want to try and implement a printer cartridge-esque walled garden where only approved filaments can be used.
Just for the record I looked at how they encrypt and sign the data and it's nothing I would call over the top or particularly troublesome.
Signing data that's used to configure a piece of hardware isn't unreasonable in my book.
It would certainly be better to have a mechanism for custom tags, and better yet the ability for you to trust a filament producers key, but the mechanism they've used for the signing really doesn't say anything to me of note.
As evil as I think Bambu is, that would be suicide.
Stupider things have been done by other stupid corporations.
I wouldn’t be surprised by Bambu if they aren’t planning it already.
Meh, I don't think they're quite foolish enough to go full Juicero, but I won't be updating my firmware.
Damn where all the Bambu fan boys at now?
So I'm just not going to update mg firmware then? I'm already using lan only mkde, and if I have to start using an SD card I guess I can do that.
My A1 mini is 3 weeks old and I love it but this sucks.... It always starts with "security" and i can totally see them going subscription model and locking you into their ecosystem. I guess that's why it was so cheap and on sale haha. Sucks to see such an amazing product and success to go downhill so quickly...
That made it so much easier when I eventually will upgrade my printer... should have gone with Prusa in the first place.
This is exactly why I pre-ordered the Prusa Core ONE when it was announced for twice the price of anything Bambu has on hand and told both recent curious friends getting into printing to look elsewhere. Bambu was ALWAYS gonna go down this path, it was only a matter of time.
I knew I should have bought the Qidi X-Smart3 instead of the A1 Mini.......
Open source or no sauce from me to this company.
Glad I didn't pull the trigger on one of these. I have no idea what I would possibly need security for my printer from, this is there for them, not the user.
When I got my current printer I considered a Mini… thankfully it was too bulky to replace the MonoPrice Select Mini, and I ended up replacing that and the Ender 3 with a Sovol SV07 Plus. Looks like it was a lucky choice!