3D printer nightmare fuel: Bambu X1C and P1P started printing while owners were asleep
www.theverge.com
Bambu takes responsibility for damaged printers.

This is a good example, why not all devices should be connected to foreign servers. Errors can happen everywhere. But it could end badly, if some Corporations make errors and creating trouble, which would otherwise not happen.

In the case of the 3D-printer it is not that bad (except it destroys itself or even gets on fire), also you can turn it off. But imagine a smart stove top that lights up a towel (or something similar) while nobody is home.

Not, that I think that it is not useful to have something like that, but wouldn’t it be nice, if that stuff would work locally? (with the WireGuard integration in modems, the access from outside of home with the smartphone, should also be no problem for non-tech people)

  • kent_eh@lemmy.caEnglish
    12·
    1 year ago

    It shouldn’t be be required to use a cloud service in order to use a piece of hardware that you bought and paid for.

    I’m disturbed seeing so many of the new consumer targeted 3D printers (and so many other products) going in the “cloud required” direction.

    • demesisx@lemmy.worldEnglish
      6·
      1 year ago

      shouldn’t be be required to use a cloud service in order to use a piece of hardware that you bought and paid for.

      of course. I didn’t really insinuate that it should.

    • Nate@postit.quantentoast.deOP
      5·
      1 year ago

      That’s true.

      Like in the example, Why the heck should a stove should need cloud access. Or even better… a tesla power wall… -.-