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by KnobbleMcKnees 1039 days ago
There are lots of hardware features that enable cutoff (such as thermal runaway detection) but that's irrelevant to situations in which the environment has not been prepared for printing.

For example, your workshop may be well ventilated during the day and completely closed up at night. All the safety features in the world don't add up to a 100% safe usage experience for any piece of hardware. You don't want your printer doing this for the same reason you don't leave your table saw running when locking up for the night. Technically safe, but unadvisable.

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>All the safety features in the world don't add up to a 100% safe usage experience for any piece of hardware

Yes, obviously. But that doesn't mean you should omit basic safety features.

Which, they didn't. Per the aforementioned hardware safety features.

Extremely broad and reliable rule of thumb: hardware safety features > software safety features