Forever is a long time. I’m sad I won’t get upgrades, but I didn’t expect any when I bought it. I’ll be fine for a while.

When I feel that big an itch for a new thing, I’ll buy a new thing. Probably something Prusa branded.

I assume it does. If I had a big problem with that, I wouldn’t have connected it to the internet in the first place.

However, the talk about disabling printers without this update makes me think I should probably block it.

I wouldn’t buy a new Bambu now. But the one I have has a LAN only option, and i assume it will keep it as long as I don’t upgrade my firmware.

I don’t see how they would disable my printer without updating firmware. Maybe I should block all internet communication just to be sure.

But this particular RFID has some sort of encryption-something, that means that other companies can’t make them.

I don’t like it, but since I can still use other brands without the convenience of RFID tags, it’s not a deal-breaker.

I care. I bought Bambu anyway, because there’s a LAN only option. I enabled it today. I am also not going to upgrade firmware.

I believe it does.

Here in Denmark, it’s legal to circumvent piracy protection, if the purpose is to legally use the product.

The example that was used in the media when this was new, is when you buy a DVD and want to play it on a PC instead of a DVD player. Usually piracy protection would stop it from working on a PC. Of course the circumvention also makes it easy to make and distribute a pirate copy.

So the ability to use the product in the way the customer choose (within reason), is weighted higher than stopping piracy a little.