The thing is -and neither Bambu nor their shills and fanboys understand that-: People bought a printer that could do both: Use the cloud and manage it at home or use Orca/Panda,etc.

Now they have to choose one of the sides.

And this is a major flaw - legally speaking it is a major malfunction.

We will see how this ends up.

The Verge got official answers to some questions and IMHO the responses are all wrong.

https://www.theverge.com/2025/1/21/24349031/bambu-3d-printer-update-authentication-filament-subscription-lock-answers

1. Will Bambu publicly commit to never requiring a subscription in order to control its printers and print from them over a home network?

For our current product line, yes.

2. Will Bambu publicly commit to never restricting the use of third-party filament in any way, shape, or form?

For our current product line, yes.

5. Will Bambu publicly commit to offering and keeping the local Developer mode available in any future printers it releases?

We cannot commit to features for non-existent future printers.

6. Will Bambu publicly commit to its current and future printers permanently being remotely controllable over LAN without user account or Internet access?

For current models: Yes.

Basically it was corp speech for “DRM on filament, subscriptions, and forced cloud mode will come in the next models”. Otherwise they wouldn’t have put such emphasis on “current models” and completely leave the door open for anything that might come out next month

Sigh, of course this happens right after I bought one

I’m pretty sure I was successful with putting both my Bambu printers on LAN mode and setting up my router to block their connection to the internet before potentially unknowingly updating to this garbage firmware version. We’ll see, definitely not buying another Bambu for the foreseeable future. I bet Prusa is pretty happy about this decision from Bambu.