3D printer nightmare fuel: Bambu X1C and P1P started printing while owners were asleep

Proprietary cloud locked anything, really.

These printers come with that too. Just most didn't have it turned off overnight when this happened.

They should have it turned off because the Bambu lab printed have been tested and shown to draw much more power when idle compared to other printers. It's not much but overtime it adds up.

Same :)

I have a Creality K1, I am able to load files to it with a thumb drive. There is a really terrible app for it, and it can be hooked up to wifi, but... I haven't done any of that. I slice the model, save to a USB stick, and plug the USB into the printer.

There may have been a nonzero chance of it starting a fire, since the article describes some printers as "tearing themselves apart", which could conceivably have included wiring damage or hot things landing outside the printer on flammable material.

Also, since it seems to have been printing copies of previous prints, um, well . . . some people do print sex toys. I can see how explaining that one to your eight-year-old or your mother-in-law, if they find it first, could be considered a nightmare.

We’ll, considering things can heat up quite a bit with printers, I wouldn’t want mine turning on randomly. I’d rather heat my house using central heating, thank you.