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I would love if my printer was more dumb. It's cheaper to buy an AIO than a separate document (with duplex) and flatbed scanner.
by aidenn0 5mo ago
I would love if my printer was more dumb. It's cheaper to buy an AIO than a separate document (with duplex) and flatbed scanner.
- stackghost 5mo agoNowadays smartphones do credible document scanning for most consumer use cases. iPhones had this built in before COVID at the latest. But the printer comment was actually a reference to a meme about how different groups of people relate to technology. Nobody on the Internet can ring my doorbell because it's a dumb button that connects to a dumb, literal bell.
- pests 5mo agoI mean yes and no. If I knew your address, I could 100% ring your doorbell from the Internet. CTRL+T, doordash.com, McDonalds, "ring doorbell please", pay, done. I know this isn't what you mean, but, humans are buttons (or button pressers?)
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- martheen 5mo agoTo handle older cars that can't close the door by itself, Waymo (used to?) pay nearby DoorDash drivers to close it.
- aidenn0 5mo ago> Nowadays smartphones do credible document scanning for most consumer use cases. iPhones had this built in before COVID at the latest. Now do 40 pages, front-and-back, with your smartphone.
- stackghost 5mo agoThat's not "most consumer use cases". I have not once in my entire life had to scan 40 pages at once. I bet I've never done more than 15 at once. For the once in a blue moon that I need to scan 40 double-sided pages I'd just go to my local print shop.
- para_parolu 5mo agoI got flashbacks from preparing immigration papers…
- aidenn0 5mo agoOkay I exaggerated, but 15 would be bad enough. I use the sheet-feed multiple times a year: - Banking/Investment documents (I actually sent a fax to a bank last year because $REASONS) - Foster-care related stuff - Sending tax documents to my accountant
- themafia 5mo agoYou might if it were drastically more convenient. I seem to have somehow acquired nearly 1 imperial pound of documentation for every year I've been alive. That's just estimating based upon the weight of my panda file box next to my desk. There's a lot in there, rental contracts, policy documents, w2 forms, that I might actually benefit from having scanned and digitally available on my computer. I feel that being able to search through these documents would have saved me some amount of trouble over the years. Hell, if it were easy enough, I might actually scan all those receipts I bring home and then throw away.
- kakacik 5mo agoYou don't do much bureaucracy in your personal life (mortgages, moving around, children, or just keeping things as they are). I do similar things few times per year on average, and I don't do anything exceptional. Plus living in a village, closest printing shop is maybe 10 minutes by drive. Scanner and good printer is a basic need in 2026.
- stackghost 5mo agoI moved 5 times between 2015 and 2021 (air force), during which time I bought and sold houses at each move, have two kids in school, and I've never had to scan documents. They're all e-signature.