Bambu Lab pushes a “control system” for 3D printers, and boy, did it not go well

Security measure? Boxing out third-party tools? Or something more complex?

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[Slik]

I was considering a Bambu printer. I'm glad I didn't pull the trigger.

Bambu labs isnt looking good, neither form their after-purchase change of their TOS, nor the hiding the change. Louis Rossmann has a couple good videos discussing this.

 

[Slik]

My concern over Bambu isn't the filament; my biggest worry is that they will go the Cricut route, and move all local slicer/etc to their servers, and then require a subscription. Yeah, we can probably have someone jail break the things to make it work, but as some have said, I want to use the printer for hobby and other random stuff; I have no interest in having my 3d printer be a hobby in-and-of-itself.

The whole Chinese corporation being allowed to scrape my data is my second worry.

As others have beaten; the filament is a non issue for me.

Edit; i clarified one thing, and now the top 2/3 of my post is now a quote? And I can't edit it out. Meh.

(My inability here is part of why I was interested in a Bambu, lol )