Thank you to those who warned about Bambulab
I picked up a bambu machine for christmas, simply because on a base hardware and firmware side it was hard to find something that competed with them. Especially as it was my first printer.
Because of everyone's warnings though, I have never allowed my machine to be connect to the internet and now never will allow. All prints go through the cold swappable SD card, no matter how much of a faff that is. My machine is mine, not Bambu's.
Whilst it's not happened yet, it seems to be on the horizon so it's worth saying. My hammers don't charge me a subscription fee to use so like hell will I let my 3d printing tool charge me one.
Thank you to everyone who raised the alarm about bambu's potential. I think you might have just help one new user escape some of the lockdown. I look forward to upgrading to a Prusa (or damn near any other reasonable brand) in future.