Local-only octoprint is feeling better and better.
Nothing a Wi-Fi controlled power outlet can’t fix. If the printer is turned off it can’t suddenly start printing.
OK, but the fact that this is a thing that can happen should be making everyone think twice about buying from this manufacturer.
Really? “nightmare fuel”?
Some people have a really low bar for considering something a nightmare.
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.