You are arguably being insulted and neglected.
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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.
This is one of the basic problems - mixing sick leave an vacation.
This thing where you have a certain number of sick days to spend, it often ends up as another kind of vacation. And then when you are out of sick leave, your vacation leave is just another kind of sick leave.
Here in Denmark, there's virtually unlimited sick leave. If you're sick, you take a leave with full pay. No "max 14 days of paid sick leave". If you need to go to the doctor and you can't do it outside working hours, it's sick leave.
Then your vacation leave is for vacation. And sometimes errands, but with 25-30 days per year, there should be time for both.
I'm in Denmark, if I need to go to the doctor, dentist etc during working hours, it is usually counted as sick leave. This means full pay and no deduction in vacation time, and here we don't run out of sick leave.
Although we do have a dury to try doing it outside office hours.
Meanwhile, here in Denmark any manager I've ever had insists that I take sick day when I'm sick. Not for my sake, for the company.
And i have virtually unlimited sick days, I don't loose any money or vacation days by taking sick leave.
Also, if the place is understaffed because just one person is on sick leave, that's a management decision. Why would anyone who cares about you, be pissed at you for acting sick while being sick...
It's a P1S. A nozzle that is hard/cumbersome to change is 15 USD. One that is almost as easy to change as a regular nozzle is 35 USD.
Add shipping costs, maybe taxes, the fact that they can have crazy delays...
I remember on my old printer I'd by a bag of nozzles even if I didn't need them. But on a Bambu... Yeah, I'd try to salvage the nozzle too.