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The Battle for the Soul of Digital Freedom Taking Place Inside Your Printer
- dang 6y agoComments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25035736 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25035736, which was posted a bit earlier. Looks like both are dupes of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25008894 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25008894, actually, but this feels like one of those stories where the community needs more than one go at it.
- Digit-Al 6y ago>Our kids' teachers want them to print out assignments, fill them in, and upload pictures of the completed work to Google Classroom. Why the hell are such ludicrously byzantine solutions being employed in the first place? What happened to the dream of the paperless office? We're sitting here having pointless discussions about the feasibility of open source printers when we should be discussing the creation of better options to avoid the need to print stuff. Kids shouldn't be printing assignment sheets and then photographing them and uploading the photo's, that completely idiotic. The should be able to download it, fill it in, and re-upload it. These are things we should really be discussing. We don't need better printers, we need better solutions to printing. Then we can wave goodbye to HP and the like and watch them suffocate to death under the weight of their own greed and incompetence. IMHO