My XYZ was similar, but thankfully they allowed spools to be used on the outside. I also found a print to allow me to respool the cartridges but can’t use the chip to monitor spool usage. But someone did come up with a way to reset those tags but I never got around to doing it.
Hopefully the same can be done here too.
Such a shame because while I don’t like FDM printing much anymore, Bamboo printers look like awesome printers minus all this BS.
The absolute irony of tech companies claiming to be for the environment while making plastic crap that is easier and cheaper to throw away than repair.
But sure, please do tell us Microsoft/Google/Apple how environmentally friendly you are because you no longer include a charger with the $1k hunk of plastic!
Compare that to bicycles. You’ll find a lot more people able to and actually taking a bicycle frame out of the garbage and repurposing it for a new bike or an exercise bike.
They’ve been doing it for decades now because those “void if removed” stickers were always a blatant violation of existing laws in the US yet still continue to this day.
That’s ripe for abuse.
Sounds like they’re going that route that some other manufacturers and slicers are going for “public safety” by preventing people from printing things like guns, but then it’s going to extend to more under the same guise.