If you buy a Bambu P2S, you don’t really own it. Bambu can see and control each file printed, and are suing anyone that attempts to rectify that change.
Excuse my own ignorance on this issue, i was under the impression that in response to the BS they pulled last year they committed to always having the option for a fully offline (but potentially less-featured) printer?
The Jeff Geerling video also highlights how they have been very hostile to open-source developers, blaming OrcaSlicer for the security flaws of their cloud service (?!?!)
Fortunately, there are plenty of 3D printers that don’t pull the same BS. You of course have Prusa, but you also have companies like Qidi, Sovol, Elegoo, etc. that all have very strong competitors to Bambu’s printers.
If you buy a Bambu P2S, you don’t really own it. Bambu can see and control each file printed, and are suing anyone that attempts to rectify that change.
If you buy a Prusa Core One, you do own it.
The boycott just makes financial sense.
Excuse my own ignorance on this issue, i was under the impression that in response to the BS they pulled last year they committed to always having the option for a fully offline (but potentially less-featured) printer?
The Jeff Geerling video also highlights how they have been very hostile to open-source developers, blaming OrcaSlicer for the security flaws of their cloud service (?!?!)
Fortunately, there are plenty of 3D printers that don’t pull the same BS. You of course have Prusa, but you also have companies like Qidi, Sovol, Elegoo, etc. that all have very strong competitors to Bambu’s printers.
The video covers that “option”.