@tab2space Not gonna lie, I expected exactly that before I clicked through and was mildly surprised they hadn't gone there, yet.
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Ryan Finnie (foo@fosstodon.org)'s status on Sunday, 19-Jan-2025 00:32:23 JST Ryan Finnie -
Richard Johnson (tab2space@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 19-Jan-2025 00:32:24 JST Richard Johnson I eagerly* await the coming Bambu DRM which will be used to prevent printing with filament lacking the Bambu-official signed RFID in the spool.
... * not actually eager
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Gina Häußge (foosel@chaos.social)'s status on Sunday, 19-Jan-2025 00:32:25 JST Gina Häußge For the record, rug pulls like this one are precisely the reason why I wish people would finally stop buying into the Bambulab hype and instead get a 3d printer from a company that doesn't force their cloud down their throat together with their proprietary hardware.
https://blog.bambulab.com/firmware-update-introducing-new-authorization-control-system-2/
Yes, there are other options, no, they aren't automatically worse. Vote with your feet.
Breaking my rule of not recommending anything here: I'm very happy with my recent acquisition of a QiDi Q1 Pro.
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