| I am convinced you have no idea what you are talking about. > Finally, these printers will likely stop working entirely if the company goes out of business or decides to wind down their 3D printing business or just plain planned obsolescence of specific models They can be set up without internet. They can print from a microSD card without internet. I have a Bambu X1, have never connected it to the internet, and everything works fine. No worse than a Prusa from 2 years ago would have. Except, even better, I can connect it to a LAN, without internet, and access the camera from my PC using their open-source desktop app. I can’t do it from my phone, but my PC isn’t hopping between networks constantly. Saying it will die if the company goes bankrupt is pure FUD. I don’t know if it’s worth addressing the other points considering this level of ignorance. Especially this: > Next, the printer can use a combination of UPnP, Dynamic DNS to expose it over the internet. Yes, it is scary to do this but with the right security practices it is possible to expose your printer over the internet so your app can reach it. You don't need their cloud to be the intermediary. This has the reasonability of the now-infamous Hacker News diss when Dropbox was invented. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9224 Also, we are in an IP Address shortage. More internet companies like StarLink are disabling port forwarding because they don’t have enough addresses and the cost per address is currently insane. It might not even be an option for a growing number of people out of technical necessity. In addition, many ISPs, including mine (Xfinity), reserve the right to ban you for running a home server of any kind - Bambu obviously doesn’t view encouraging people to persue activities that could get them banned from their ISP as a viable solution. Even with a warning sticker. |