Is it artificial though?

They've bought a machine that executes gcode and that it does (at least to my understanding) regardless of where that gcode comes from.

If you want special secret sauce gcode from the bambu cloud, you need to use the bambu cloud.

Those are not the same thing, so IMO it is legit what they do there, because it's such a clear-cut split. You own the physical thing but not the ecosystem around it.

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I would of course personally never buy a bambu lab printer, because they're cloud-tied nonsense that was going to behave exactly like that (the split between hw and ecosystem), but other people knew that too and still bought it, because "what a nice ecosystem".

idk. I just don't think that "right to repair" should mean "right to be saved from the consequences of my own bad actions".

Those bad actions continuing to have no real painful consequences (and with that no real learnings + behavioral correction) after all is why the state of tech has become as bleak as it is right now.

And, honestly, if you can afford a bambu premium machine, there's a 97% chance that you could easily shoulder a total write-off. There's also a 97% chance that your ego can't, but that's the main thing causing all the bad things in the world and should've died a long time ago. Approximately post-highschool.