Bambu Lab recently announced a firmware security update for its printers that would introduce an official “authorization control” system for critical printer operations. The update is presented as a way to mitigate the “risk of remote hacks or printer exposure issues that have happened in the past, and also lower the risk of abnormal traffic or attacks.”

The new firmware will not allow Bambu Lab printers to interface with popular 3rd party software or hardware upgrades such as Orca Slicer or BigTreeTech’s Panda Touch screen. Now, users will need to download “Bambu Connect” to act as a one-way go-between.

  • plactagonic@sopuli.xyz
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    3 days ago

    I saw a video where guy compared prusa and bambu. All of his Prusas were functional but slower because they are older models. From 3 Bambu printers only one printed because he can’t get replacement parts.

    And this was released last year…

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      2 days ago

      Even Prusa’s newest printer, the core one, is no where close to BL printers of last year in terms of performance and print quality, despite costing nearly twice as much. BL is ahead of all it’s competitors in both the hobbyist and pro-sumer market in both performance and UX, it really sucks that there isn’t something to fill that market now that they’ve pulled this crap. I’m not sure what parts he couldn’t get, but the few I know that do have BL printers, only one has had to replace a part and it was no issue getting it from BL whatsoever.

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        2 days ago

        I think it is this video, yes it is about the core one. But he looks at it from the perspective of print farm where he needs to keep them printing as long as position.