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Funny, for me it helps replacing another device that I canned twenty years ago: the printer. Every time I need to print something to feed some troglodite's requ
by narag 4y ago
Funny, for me it helps replacing another device that I canned twenty years ago: the printer. Every time I need to print something to feed some troglodite's requirement, I put a pdf in a pincho and go down the street to the call shop.
20 cents is absurdly expensive, but much less than maintaining a printer for one paper sheet a month at most.
- Raed667 4y agoOh I remember the era of giving your thumb drives all possible viruses every time you needed to print. I was recently pleasantly surprised that the shop with a printer down the street refuses to take any USBs and only prints what you email them.
- wil421 4y agoNewer photo booths connect to your device using a WiFi hotspot to transfer your photos. Last time all I did was scan a QR code that basically connected to a WiFi network and opened a Kodak page served by the booth.
- cute_boi 4y agolast time I had to print passport they were asking me to send email. This is such a ridiculous thing to be honest from the privacy point of view.
- Raed667 4y agoPretty sure if they want to keep a copy of your passport then they can make one when you give them a USB as well.
- mypetocean 4y agoI still make it a point to disable AutoPlay and AutoRun on every PC I possess. No, operating system, thou shalt not be permitted to seek and run executable code automatically on every connected storage media. I thankest thou most assuredly.
- nopenopenopeno 4y agoGet a black and white Brother laser printer. It's super affordable, costs almost no money or time to maintain, and always works.
- rwaksmunski 4y agoWell, get an older one that does not use the chips in the toners. The new ones are iffy.
- davchana 4y agoI was lucky to get laser black white printer for $49 on Black Friday 2020. Cartridge also costs same. HP.
- narag 4y agoStill two orders of magnitude more expensive for my needs. Thank you but nope.
- Mistletoe 4y agoI love my laser printer. There’s something about looking at data on paper that I really enjoy. Store it in a binder to look at later. Hang it on the wall to think about. I look at screens enough already. I don’t mindlessly print stuff off but important stuff like soil tests etc. I’d rather have a physical copy than go search for it electronically.
- kccqzy 4y agoAnd not to mention, with some printers, you can feel the letters on paper as if there's some embossment. It gives a more tactile feel to the work you produced.
- ghaff 4y agoYeah. I'm not a particularly heavy user of paper but I sometimes print something out to refer to it on a call, print out a recipe, print out a map, etc. Paper is just easier sometimes and I couldn't imagine taking the 30 minutes it would take me to go to the nearest Staples to get something printed out. And laser printers don't dry out like inkjets.
- allenu 4y agoI bought a printer about a year ago and I use it all the time. There is definitely something nice and convenient about having a physical copy that you carry with you. I needed some info when I was playing a video game, so I looked it up and printed out the excerpt that I needed. I could have just loaded it on my phone, but then I'd have find the page again whenever I needed it, and try to avoid all the stupid ads.
- dotancohen 4y agoI agree with you 100%. That's why I bought a 10" Boox Eink tablet last week - to read real print without maintaining a printer. The PDF reader the thing comes from supports PDF annotations, and it comes with a Wacom pen, so I can continue to highlight and scribble.
- ohbtvz 4y ago> Every time I need to print something to feed some troglodite's requirement, I put a pdf in a pincho and go down the street to the call shop. They don't accept emails? All the ones I've been to, do.
- narag 4y agoThe annoyance for me is owning a printer, not using the usb stick.