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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 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.

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I 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.

And 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.

Yeah. 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.

I 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.

I 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.

Oh 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.

Newer 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.

last 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.

Pretty sure if they want to keep a copy of your passport then they can make one when you give them a USB as well.

But even if they don't want, it's still there for GMail, other employees, whoever hacks their account, etc.

if that is important for you (which it should be) then don't use other people printers for these kind of documents.

I 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.

> 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.

The annoyance for me is owning a printer, not using the usb stick.

Get a black and white Brother laser printer. It's super affordable, costs almost no money or time to maintain, and always works.

Well, get an older one that does not use the chips in the toners. The new ones are iffy.

I was lucky to get laser black white printer for $49 on Black Friday 2020. Cartridge also costs same. HP.

Still two orders of magnitude more expensive for my needs. Thank you but nope.

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