[HN Gopher] Cloud outage causes Bambu 3D printers to start print...
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       Cloud outage causes Bambu 3D printers to start printing on their
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       Author : rcarmo
       Score  : 61 points
       Date   : 2023-08-19 09:52 UTC (13 hours ago)
        
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       | whynotmaybe wrote:
       | Just to be clear, it's possible to print on the Bambu without an
       | internet connection right?
        
         | Filligree wrote:
         | Yes, either by SD card or through Wi-Fi.
        
         | ianschmitz wrote:
         | Yes it does support local connection, although in my experience
         | it hasn't worked well possibly because I have my IoT devices on
         | a separate VLAN.
        
       | StayTrue wrote:
       | I researched Bambu printers before and it seemed, at least at the
       | time, you could not manage it with open source Octoprint. I
       | prefer not to connect my printer to the live network but still
       | want to access it remotely, which Octoprint accomplishes via
       | serial connection.
        
       | jacquesm wrote:
       | Don't buy any hardware that requires a cloud connection. I was
       | shopping around for inverters for my solar installation a few
       | months ago and it took some digging but I found a bunch of brands
       | that do not have a mandatory cloud component. Those got the
       | order. There is no way I'm going to hand over the responsibility
       | for the electrical system in my house to some backend developer
       | in a faraway country, nor do I want such gear on my LAN without
       | it being on a completely different segment and without any access
       | to the net.
       | 
       | In general anything that contains a heating element or that
       | generates or uses power in the KW range should not be internet
       | accessible. Too many griefers in this world.
        
       | villgax wrote:
       | Screw bamboo with a bamboo
        
       | MegaDeKay wrote:
       | Anti-features like this just make me more convinced to get a
       | Voron instead. Open source design, great community, almost
       | infinitely moddable, and at least as capable as the Bambu. You
       | can self-source all the parts or buy kits from various vendors.
       | 
       | https://vorondesign.com/
       | 
       | However, I say all this as someone that is technically inclined,
       | wants to tinker, and is a fan of the open source. Somebody that
       | wants plug-and-play should definitely look at another printer.
        
         | solotronics wrote:
         | +1 for Voron project. I recommend first time builders to get a
         | reputable Voron kit, you will save a lot of time creating
         | wiring harnesses and such.
        
         | traverseda wrote:
         | Voron seems like so much work honestly, and it's still quite
         | expensive.
        
       | allenrb wrote:
       | I've got a Prusa Mk4 and it supports some sort of cloud feature.
       | Can't tell you more than that because it's turned off and there
       | it shall stay.
       | 
       | I'm able to print perfectly well over the LAN, thank-you-very-
       | much.
        
       | bbielsa wrote:
       | I own a Bambu P1S and Bambu does not deserve the benefit of the
       | doubt in this case. The cloud (anti-)feature is entirely
       | unnecessary and gives them free license to use all recordings
       | from the webcam in the printer.
       | 
       | The printer has to be connected to the "cloud" in order to access
       | the webcam, control the internal lights, and control the print
       | head and heated bed from their Bambu app. However, part of the
       | initial setup process requires you to connect to the printer via
       | Bluetooth in order to setup the wifi connection in the first
       | place! Clearly it IS possible to communicate with the printer
       | without an internet connection.
       | 
       | They intentionally ruined the user experience in LAN-only mode to
       | persuade people to connect their printers to the Bambu cloud
       | service.
        
         | dawnerd wrote:
         | They've been improving lan only move including allowing you to
         | view the video feed. I think you're being a bit hard on them
         | when they've already said they're making more improvements to
         | lan only and they're listening to feedback. They released a
         | statement about this issue pretty fast and seemed for
         | transparent than most companies would have been.
        
           | fbdab103 wrote:
           | What is the justification that the company is entitled to all
           | of my data? This is no different from HP using dark patterns
           | to get the average consumer to lock their printer into the
           | cloud.
           | 
           | A pinkie promise that, "We'll do better after you got burned
           | for our data-collection greed" falls a little flat.
        
             | Filligree wrote:
             | The data in question is how the build plate looks while
             | printing, which gets directly fed back into the ML model
             | used to detect print failures. Spaghetti detection is half
             | the point of owning one.
             | 
             | The camera we're talking about only sees the inside of the
             | printer.
        
               | hansvm wrote:
               | > The camera we're talking about only sees the inside of
               | the printer
               | 
               | Devil's advocate, inadvertent peephole cameras and
               | reflections in surprisingly small regions of interest are
               | a fact of how light interacts with glass, metals, low-
               | tolerance parts, and the other sorts of things that make
               | up the printer. There are lots of recent fun papers
               | inverting the pattern going around a curved painted
               | corner or through a hole accommodating the string holding
               | up your blinds or whatnot to get a detailed view of
               | what's on the other side.
               | 
               | Their malicious use cases are probably less cutting edge.
        
         | gumballindie wrote:
         | Why on earth do 3D printers need a cloud connection, but most
         | importantly why do people buy them?
        
           | sudosysgen wrote:
           | The main feature is being able to remotely check up on your
           | 3D prints and cancel them if they've gone wrong as well as
           | being able to print remotely. These are actually fairly
           | useful which is why people do buy them, though you could make
           | it work without cloud connections.
        
             | gumballindie wrote:
             | A lan connection and a raspberry pi will do that just fine.
             | Plugin a webcam and the USB connector of the printer. Been
             | doing this >10 years ago and i was able to upload print
             | models, monitor progress, and cancel. Use USB hubs if you
             | have more than one printer.
        
               | anonymousab wrote:
               | It is completely doable, and there's a lot of good
               | software and tutorials to get it done. But there's all
               | sorts of things that could complicate that process.
               | 
               | For instance, with my last 3d printer, I had to open it
               | up and jump some pins on the mainboard, and then had to
               | get a specific piece of (cheap and readily available) USB
               | hardware to write to it from a laptop - and even then, it
               | only worked from a specific USB port on some of my
               | machines, because of weird USB host incompatibilities.
               | And my 3d printer was one of the most common buy-this-
               | one-first products of its time!
               | 
               | Oh, and there was also some weirdness with the PSU as
               | well that somehow caused flakiness when powering up the
               | webcam when I tried to share power for the pi with the
               | printer itself. I'm comfortable with troubleshooting
               | that, but I wouldn't expect nor even want the average
               | person to have to bother with that kind of stuff.
               | 
               | So the appeal/marketing of the Bambu products is that
               | it's not something for tinkerers - it's something that
               | the average person can just setup and immediately get
               | reliable prints, with all the bells and whistles on top
               | of it.
               | 
               | In other words, the idea is that it (quite literally)
               | "just works". Even with the drawbacks that we all know
               | about proprietary devices and cloud services, it does its
               | job for the average person.
               | 
               | The positive side of all this is that Bambu's relative
               | success means a bit of pressure on the other leaders in
               | the 3D printing space, and we can see that they're all
               | iterating quickly and well to compete in aspects where
               | they may have been resting on their laurels before.
        
               | Filligree wrote:
               | And then you also set up a VPN connection to your phone,
               | mess with certificates and whatnot? Though you'll also
               | need to use some form of cloud system to get past CGNAT,
               | since you probably have that on both ends. My ISP hasn't
               | provided IP addresses in years.
               | 
               | Most people just want a printer, not _two_ new hobbies.
        
               | jrockway wrote:
               | Why do you want to operate your printer when you're not
               | on your LAN? I certainly have no control over my printer
               | (other than the power switch) from the Outside World. I
               | consider this to be a security feature.
        
               | anonymousab wrote:
               | > Why do you want to operate your printer when you're not
               | on your LAN?
               | 
               | Checking the progress of your prints remotely and
               | stopping them if something has gone wrong. There's
               | options for spaghetti detection and so on, but those
               | aren't perfect, and other kinds of failures can happen.
        
               | jrockway wrote:
               | I don't leave the house when I have something printing.
               | You can't extinguish a fire with a remote power switch.
        
               | sudosysgen wrote:
               | The point of these printers is to be reliable and
               | accessible enough that you don't have to worry about
               | that, just like you don't worry about supervising your
               | drier.
               | 
               | Just like most appliances, a 3D printer will only catch
               | fire in the case of a serious hardware malfunction or
               | egregious user error. The point is for this to be rare
               | enough that the risk is negligible, so all you'd worry
               | about is your print failing.
        
               | sudosysgen wrote:
               | The point is that you don't want this to just be on LAN,
               | you would want to be able to this from anywhere. That way
               | if you're at work or going out you can still do that. If
               | you wanted it to just be on LAN, you can just disable the
               | cloud features, but for many people that's a big selling
               | point.
               | 
               | You can make it work over the internet without a cloud
               | connection, but it's fiddly and requires set-up (port
               | forwarding or hole punching). People don't want that, and
               | Bambu's value proposition is zero-tweaking at high
               | performance - otherwise you'd go for another model.
        
           | baz00 wrote:
           | [flagged]
        
           | parsimo2010 wrote:
           | Bambu had a pretty big marketing campaign with their
           | printers. All the major reviewers/influencers in the 3d
           | printing community were provided review samples, and
           | presumably talking points to emphasize. Most all reviews
           | focused on the high print speeds and advanced technology in
           | the printers.
           | 
           | Things like the nearly required cloud integration were
           | glossed over with "that's normal today and you get so many
           | shiny features with it" and hardly anyone challenged Bambu by
           | saying that most of the features enabled by cloud integration
           | didn't really need the cloud to be implemented. Things like
           | immature firmware were glossed over with comments like "there
           | are some bugs but that can be fixed over time, so just go
           | ahead and assume that this young company without a proven
           | track record will provide good support to these printers."
           | 
           | Add the marketing to the consideration that there were no
           | other pre-built "fast" printers when the Bambu printers hit
           | the market. Your only other option was to build your own like
           | a Voron, which many people didn't want to do. Now there are
           | other pre-built options that don't require cloud integration,
           | so people can really weigh the pros/cons of the other
           | options, but Bambu got an advantage by being first to market.
        
             | gamblor956 wrote:
             | This is completely wrong...
             | 
             | When the Bambu came out, there was nothing like it on the
             | market that combined price, speed, and ease-of-use. Yes,
             | there were cheaper printers, and faster printers, and
             | easier-to-use printers, but not in a single package, and
             | especially not in a pre-built package.
             | 
             |  _Things like immature firmware were glossed over_
             | 
             | The "immature" firmware is still better than the "mature"
             | firmware Creality ships. And Prusa shipped buggy firmware
             | for its multi-material addon for several years, despite
             | being in the 3d printing game for over a decade.
             | 
             |  _Bambu got an advantage by being first to market._
             | 
             | Bambu's first printer came out last year. The Anker Make
             | came out before it. Creality and Prusa have been shipping
             | 3d printers for a decade. Voron has been a thing for about
             | a decade. What is this "first to market" advantage you
             | speak of?
        
               | blibble wrote:
               | > When the Bambu came out, there was nothing like it on
               | the market that combined price, speed, and ease-of-use.
               | Yes, there were cheaper printers, and faster printers,
               | and easier-to-use printers, but not in a single package,
               | and especially not in a pre-built package.
               | 
               | are they hoping to monetise you in a future update?
               | 
               | continued use? $19.99/month
        
               | gamblor956 wrote:
               | I'm not sure what you're getting at. There's no
               | subscription cost for using the cloud update, and it's
               | possible to control the printers over WiFi using open
               | source slicers.
               | 
               | So it appears you're angry about a strawman that doesn't
               | actually exist.
        
             | f001 wrote:
             | What would you recommend as an alternative pre-built "fast"
             | printer?
        
         | gjsman-1000 wrote:
         | > However, part of the initial setup process requires you to
         | connect to the printer via Bluetooth in order to setup the wifi
         | connection in the first place! Clearly it IS possible to
         | communicate with the printer without an internet connection.
         | 
         | This is actually a pretty bad argument. Bluetooth only goes 30
         | feet, so your connection would likewise only go... 30 feet. All
         | of the things you can control on your smartphone can be
         | controlled on the printer itself, so what's the point?
         | 
         | Unless you are complaining that you can't use the smartphone
         | app, while at your own home on Wi-Fi, without connecting to the
         | cloud. That is, I will just say right now, not how 90%+ of
         | customers would expect an app to work. For most people, a
         | smartphone app that only works at home is confusing and
         | upsetting.
         | 
         | Finally, while it doesn't work from the app, you can control
         | those things and view footage using the Bambu Studio desktop
         | app without a cloud connection, IIRC. You just need a PC, not a
         | phone, though I would argue this makes sense as a fair trade-
         | off considering the consumer demographics. A PC would be way
         | more reliable anyway as your phone would be switching onto cell
         | tower networks which obviously don't have your printer on them.
         | 
         | Edit: Also, Bluetooth tops out under perfect conditions at 2.2
         | Megabits. Real world is far lower. You can't reliably send a
         | video stream over Bluetooth. Heck, Apple doesn't even try to
         | send a lossless audio stream over Bluetooth.
        
           | techie128 wrote:
           | You're missing the point. Instead of focusing on 'Bluetooth',
           | focus on GP's underlying point which was that Bamboo should
           | make it possible to have offline experience which is
           | comparable to the cloud connected experience.
           | 
           | Now to address your original concern about Bluetooth.
           | Bluetooth is not the best fit but Bamboo printers do have
           | WiFi. They can host local web UI which is what pretty much
           | every other product does. It requires will and resources to
           | support offline tooling for users though. It also reduces the
           | probability that the user will subscribe to their cloud
           | services, if any.
           | 
           | Coming to the point of an App only working at home. Well,
           | there are several ways to address this issue WITHOUT
           | requiring a user to use their Cloud offering. A simple way is
           | to EDUCATE your users that the app will only function on
           | local wifi. Average users are smarter than you think. If the
           | user would like their app to work when they're not home,
           | offer them an option to connect to the cloud but do not make
           | it mandatory. 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.
           | 
           | 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. All in all, subscription & online paid
           | services for hardware products is an anti-consumer model.
        
             | gjsman-1000 wrote:
             | 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.
        
           | bbielsa wrote:
           | > This is actually a pretty bad argument. Bluetooth only goes
           | 30 feet, so your connection would likewise only go... 30
           | feet.
           | 
           | I may not have made myself clear with my original argument, I
           | meant to say offline controls are clearly possible. So if
           | offline controls are possible there's 0 excuses for controls
           | not to be available in LAN-only mode. (LAN-only is wifi
           | connected, cloud disabled)
           | 
           | > All of the things you can control on your smartphone can be
           | controlled on the printer itself, so what's the point?
           | 
           | It is way easier to tap a button on the app when dealing with
           | hardware issues than using the built in menus (that's my
           | opinion). But more importantly there is no valid reason to
           | not make them available in LAN-only mode, that was an
           | intentional decision on their part.
           | 
           | > That is, I will just say right now, not how 90%+ of
           | customers would expect an app to work. For most people, a
           | smartphone app that only works at home is confusing and
           | upsetting.
           | 
           | The 3D printing community is pretty technical, so I think
           | anyone disabling cloud mode would be able to understand the
           | consequences. An opt-out (without degrading the experience)
           | is all bambu owners are asking for. And keep in mind 3D
           | printers are a fire hazard so printing while you aren't home
           | is a risk.
        
             | gjsman-1000 wrote:
             | I told you already, it's called Bambu Studio. It offers
             | remote control, and monitoring, to a locally networked PC.
             | 
             | https://wiki.bambulab.com/en/software/bambu-studio/remote-
             | co...
             | 
             | You just can't do it from your phone. Which, considering
             | your phone likes connecting to cell phone towers (and thus
             | disconnecting from your printer), I completely get why they
             | didn't want to bother.
        
               | BugsJustFindMe wrote:
               | > _considering your phone likes connecting to cell phone
               | towers (and thus disconnecting from your printer)_
               | 
               | I don't know what kind of weird broken phones you have,
               | but every smart phone I've ever used has had no trouble
               | connecting to things on local networks via wifi even when
               | not in a cell deadzone. Your objection sounds made up to
               | me.
        
           | Aloha wrote:
           | I see no reason why you couldn't run a printer over BT,
           | indeed there are meany BT printers out there.
        
         | mvdtnz wrote:
         | You had a lot of options when you purchased that unit yet you
         | still chose Bambu.
        
       | Baeocystin wrote:
       | Here's Bambu's response, for the interested:
       | 
       | https://blog.bambulab.com/update-for-cloud-downtime/
        
       | thfuran wrote:
       | >To reduce fire risks should something like this week's errors
       | happen again, all of the company's 3D printers will also be
       | updated to continuously monitor the "hotend and heatbed
       | temperature," alerting users when a fault is detected, and
       | automatically turning off heater mechanisms.
       | 
       | So their current product offering includes a heating element
       | capable of starting a fire but no monitoring or cutoff?
        
         | KnobbleMcKnees wrote:
         | There are lots of hardware features that enable cutoff (such as
         | thermal runaway detection) but that's irrelevant to situations
         | in which the environment has not been prepared for printing.
         | 
         | For example, your workshop may be well ventilated during the
         | day and completely closed up at night. All the safety features
         | in the world don't add up to a 100% safe usage experience for
         | _any_ piece of hardware. You don 't want your printer doing
         | this for the same reason you don't leave your table saw running
         | when locking up for the night. Technically safe, but
         | unadvisable.
        
           | thfuran wrote:
           | >All the safety features in the world don't add up to a 100%
           | safe usage experience for any piece of hardware
           | 
           | Yes, obviously. But that doesn't mean you should omit basic
           | safety features.
        
         | dawnerd wrote:
         | They have a physical thermal fuse too that wasn't mentioned.
        
         | amluto wrote:
         | From the article, it sounds like there is a temperature sensor,
         | but it's not enabled in software.
        
       | LocalH wrote:
       | This is a problem borne from several factors. Horrible data
       | policies that monetize every single thing that can be collected,
       | overuse of things like CGNAT that complicate inbound connections,
       | the "residential customers may not run servers" clause found in
       | many ISP ToS, and probably some others that I'm not mentioning.
       | 
       | The combination of big government and big tech has normalized so
       | many destructive corporate behaviors, that I fear we will never
       | be able to fix the problem from within the system, nor will a
       | successful revolution ever happen. Humanity is _absolutely
       | fucked_ , if we continue on the current trajectory. And _no
       | nation_ that has any significant influence is without fault. The
       | modern  "civilized" world is garbage for the vast majority of
       | individuals.
        
       | nottorp wrote:
       | Incident or no incident, why do these things need the "cloud" to
       | operate?
        
         | judge2020 wrote:
         | They have a way to view your printer's camera iirc. Open ports
         | on your router aren't a good solution anymore especially with
         | individual v4s being removed in some residential deployments.
        
         | Filligree wrote:
         | Because a print can take multiple days, you're supposed to keep
         | an eye on, and you might want to leave the house.
        
           | nottorp wrote:
           | ... and because i'm not into 3d printers, i rightfully
           | assumed it's there to make you pay for a subscription or
           | something ;)
        
             | Filligree wrote:
             | Nope, there's no cost for it.
             | 
             | Equivalent systems from other companies do have
             | subscriptions though.
        
         | gjsman-1000 wrote:
         | Reminder the Bambu works just fine printing from a microSD card
         | without the cloud. No cloud connection is required to set up
         | the printer either.
        
         | a254613e wrote:
         | They don't. You can switch to LAN-only mode, or disable the
         | network connection altogether and put gcode on a microSD card
         | and print from that.
        
         | bboygravity wrote:
         | Nothing needs cloud to operate.
         | 
         | Cloud is for tracking.
        
         | bbarnett wrote:
         | I think need just happens. Many users don't have computers, or
         | even a tablet.
         | 
         | So the cloud is seen as a requirement, and in the end, no
         | desktop app gets created.
        
         | readyplayernull wrote:
         | Analytics in the name of safety.
        
         | marcosdumay wrote:
         | Just to add here. I've added a pi to my non-cloud printer
         | exactly for the features this one promises.
         | 
         | I still wouldn't use somebody's else cloud for them, but they
         | are very useful things.
        
         | postalrat wrote:
         | Because cloud is a feature and features have value.
        
       | h2odragon wrote:
       | How about we have appliances _without_ remote controls?
       | 
       | What benefit does "cloud" offer a 3d printer? Couldn't all the
       | same features be offered with local computing? Isn't "cloud" just
       | a route for trouble for almost all users?
       | 
       | I'm leery of the whole "image recognition to spot errors" thing
       | _anyway_. you 've got far more direct inputs to monitor. is image
       | recognition truly that reliable or is it not just a source of
       | more errors when the recognition software goes awry?
        
         | stainablesteel wrote:
         | i don't see why it isn't a viable business model either
         | 
         | just make people a printer and you don't need to develop a
         | massive IT overhead
         | 
         | wouldn't this give you the ability to sell a cheaper product
         | while marketing yourself as "not selling your customers
         | information"?
        
           | Filligree wrote:
           | And almost every cheap 3D printer does this. You won't have
           | trouble finding one.
           | 
           | The reality is that Bambu makes a premium product, in part
           | precisely due to the cloud features. Which you can turn off,
           | or never activate, but no-one does.
           | 
           | Printers like these really genuinely do benefit from cloud
           | connectivity. Unfortunately that doesn't mean you can skip on
           | QC...
        
           | dylan604 wrote:
           | >just make people a printer and you don't need to develop a
           | massive IT overhead
           | 
           | but think of all of those off-shored jobs you'd be taking
           | away!
        
         | gjsman-1000 wrote:
         | > How about we have appliances without remote controls?
         | 
         | The Bambu systems work just fine from a microSD card without an
         | internet connection at setup or in use. The Cloud is optional,
         | and I think that any user who decides to use the cloud should
         | be aware of the logical risks included.
         | 
         | > Couldn't all the same features be offered with local
         | computing? Isn't "cloud" just a route for trouble for almost
         | all users?
         | 
         | Many can, including viewing the cameras, which now work just
         | fine with LAN mode on Bambu printers. However, I would argue
         | people _want_ to remotely check on their prints (what if I
         | started a 12-hour print, left for work, and want to make sure
         | it looks good at lunch?). The alternative there is opening
         | ports on their router which, for the average person, is a much
         | worse and less secure idea.
        
         | infocollector wrote:
         | I think we need a regulation
         | 
         | 1. Any personal images/data sent to cloud need a FDA approval.
         | (FDA = Federal Data Administration) 2. Any person working in
         | this agency is banned for life to work in the private data
         | sector for life (it better be lucrative to work there). 3. ...
         | perhaps fill any loopholes you see here as you move along ...
         | (along with percentage of revenue punishments for each loophole
         | used first time)
        
           | dwaite wrote:
           | > I think we need a regulation 1. Any personal images/data
           | sent to cloud need a FDA approval. (FDA = Federal Data
           | Administration)
           | 
           | So not just new regulation, but an entirely new regulatory
           | body. Also, the Food and Drug Administration will have to
           | change their name to something else.
        
           | tzs wrote:
           | > 2. Any person working in this agency is banned for life to
           | work in the private data sector for life (it better be
           | lucrative to work there).
           | 
           | What about the other way around? Can someone who works in the
           | private data sector leave and go to work for the agency?
        
           | birdyrooster wrote:
           | The summary executions will continue until total privacy is
           | achieved.
        
         | 542458 wrote:
         | Please don't take the following as an endorsement of Bambu.
         | 
         | > What benefit does "cloud" offer a 3d printer?
         | 
         | A large print can take 24 hours or more. Offering the ability
         | to walk away and check-in and issue commands remotely is useful
         | to people.
         | 
         | (Yes, you shouldn't leave a printer unattended, but the basic
         | reality is people do leave their printers unattended anyways.)
         | 
         | > I'm leery of the whole "image recognition to spot errors"
         | thing anyway.
         | 
         | I don't think it's inconceivable that it could work well. The
         | main issue being monitored for here is "has the print
         | prematurely detached from the bed", which I'd imagine should be
         | possible to reliably detect with a known camera, angle, and
         | print characteristics.
        
           | xeromal wrote:
           | This right here. I have a crappy mono price 3d printer that
           | I've hooked up to a belkin outlet that I can turn off. I
           | point one of my cameras at it and check in on long prints and
           | am able to cut the power if I notice a bad print job. It's
           | pretty handy and helps me rest easy knowing I have one more
           | way to prevent a fire.
        
             | traverseda wrote:
             | I think just cutting the power like that can lead to melt
             | zone creep and nozzle clogs, especially with higher
             | temperature filaments. If you're not experiencing that
             | though it's probably fine. Maybe toggle the power on and
             | off so the hotend fan continues to work.
        
               | xeromal wrote:
               | I only have the switch for when there's an emergency or a
               | print is going crazy and I'm too far away to go fix it.
               | Pretty much the last resort option. I've never even
               | needed to use it
        
           | regularfry wrote:
           | > > I'm leery of the whole "image recognition to spot errors"
           | thing anyway.
           | 
           | > I don't think it's inconceivable that it could work well.
           | 
           | It's been done before, although others with actual experience
           | of Spaghetti Detective will have to chime in with whether it
           | works _well_.
        
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