The component that fails heats up, melts a spot of plastic, and dies, stops being hot. There has not been a single fire, as it fails exactly as designed to not be capable of starting a fire.
It's 99.98% reliable.
Million printers, few hundred failures.
I'm sorry you bought in to the reddit echo panic chamber on this issue.
It's been fixed moving forward, and they replace the ones for free from the bad batch as they appear. That's literally all there is to it. It's not the controversy that too-much-time-on-reddit would entice you to believe. Go touch grass and move on with your life. Jfc.
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u/ivorip 4d ago
Many schools and libraries do. Teachers have them on desks as a novelty machine