Bambu used to only remotely disable your printer if you didn't connect it to their servers. Then they sent a legal team to harass you if you tried to circumvent this restriction.

Now they remotely burn your house down.

They're working on "something".

Working on pointing out that Bambu Labs has known about the issue and failed to issue a recall. They just need the failure analysis lab report to prove that it is a design/manufacturing/QA defect so they can pin the responsibility on Bambu Labs.

In the legal world, knowing about a problem and failing to fix it opens you up for punitive damages if that problem causes harm.

Typically, if an damaging event happens and the manufacturer is found responsible, then they are only liable for the damage caused (i.e. the fire damage and printer replacement).

If they are found to have known about this in advance and failed to fix the problem prior to it causing harm to the plantiff then the plaintiff can also seek punitive damage which are not limited to the damage caused and are instead a means of punishing the company for not taking responsibility and fixing the issue that they were aware of.

This is why you see lawsuits resulting from tens of thousands of dollars of damages being awarded millions of dollars.

As it turns out, it is a bad idea piss off a community of highly motivated individuals with the knowledge and technical skills to highlight your shitty business practices.

I've really watched Bambu go from darling of the 3d printer community, to "yeah there's some issues but the results are just so good I still recommend them" to "Bambu is literally Satan"

Well that's awfully nice of them.

I'm trying SO hard not to be smug, but I sense a sort of vindication from staying FAR away from these (admittedly initially impressive) machines when I heard how locked down, cloud-connected, and appliance-like they were.

"Somehow 'I told you so'. . . doesn't quite cut it."

–Will Smith as Detective Spooner, "i-Robot"

WHAT

Which models are affected???

Finally got around to checking mine this morning, luckily I don't have the component

bambu really stuck their dick deep in that beehive, didn't they...

couldn't have happened to more deserving company.

Fuck Bambu

Dang that was the first 3d printer company that had me intrigued... Hopefully this is making hay is a short lived field, but it's not great publicity

That helpful link shows just the A1? I have an a1 mini from 2024 I hope I don't get this issue? Now that I know more about 3d printing I'll be er give my money to bambu again. Literally cancer to open source, glad I've never connected my printer to WAN and always have it in LAN mode.