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by Gigachad 513 days ago
Yeah this looks to be the case. All of this change was prompted by the fact that malicious software was triggering prints over the network. So now they have locked it down so the printer can verify prints came from the actual account owner.

Printing directly from SD cards via the little touch screen is unchanged since networked computers can’t do that.
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dns_snek 513 days ago
> So now they have locked it down so the printer can verify prints came from the actual account owner.

This is inaccurate, the printer already required authentication using an 8 digit code. What they're trying to do now is verify that the print has been started using official Bambu software, i.e. software-only DRM.

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madeofpalk 513 days ago
> All of this change was prompted by the fact that malicious software was triggering prints over the network.

Was it actually? Is there a source for this?

I'm not so upset about this change (it doesn't affect me, so far), but I'm skeptical this was a widespread problem.

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jjkaczor 512 days ago
The ONLY problem I have ever heard of Bambu printers starting on their own was when Bambu itself had a problem with cloud:

https://www.notebookcheck.net/Bambu-3D-printers-start-printi...

I have owned one since November 2023 - and it has never been hacked or powned by an outside actor.

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hatsunearu 513 days ago
I really really hope people saying this is a nothingburger is actually right, because I do have a P1S, use orcaslicer, and would like it to continue to work. Hoping this is just a miscommunication.
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wongarsu 513 days ago
Bambu Connect is explicitly about allowing you to continue to use your favorite slicer. They make it less convenient (instead of pressing print you now have to save, load the file in Bambu Connect and then press print), but they don't prevent you from doing it.

Once the update actually rolls out to the P1S obviously. Which may not even happen with the current backlash

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dns_snek 513 days ago
> Bambu Connect is explicitly about allowing you to continue to use your favorite slicer.

For now. They're putting themselves in the middleman position where they get the final say over what we can print on the printers that we supposedly "own".

It's naive to think that they won't try to extract revenue from that privileged position, they wouldn't have spent R&D resources on it otherwise.

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madeofpalk 513 days ago
I think this is pretty shitty. Not being able to print directly from the slicer is a big pain.

Imagine if this limitation existed with Bambu's first-party slicer. It would obviously be considered a pretty big downside.

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