Comment on Best printer 2024: a humorous critique of the Google search engine and printer enshittification

• T156@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Now I could obviously take 30 minutes and print it at the library, but those 30 minutes would add up fairly fast, making a printer the more accessible and economical option.

  Privacy is also an issue. There might be reasons why you don’t want to have something printed out at the library/local print shop, like if it’s tax documents, and someone hitting “repeat job” could just have it spit out personal info.

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  • dojan@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Oh yeah that’s a fantastic point I’d failed to even consider. I don’t really care if my credit card bills end up cached somewhere at the library, like, what are they going to do with it? Pay it?

    If I on the other hand dealt with personal identifiable data, that could be hugely problematic. I can see the need for e.g. a lawyer having to print case files and assemble documents physically. In such a scenario, printing it at a library, or at a third party company might not be a great idea.

    If you for some reaosn also want your nudes (or I suppose, erotic artwork) in print, I can see how you might not want to have that done by a company. I don’t think I’d personally care, but maybe the person dealing with it at the company shouldn’t have to see that sort of thing.

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• Zak@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I need to send that to our accountant in printed form. I can’t legally mail it to him.

  This is exactly the sort of thing I meant by “someone being bad at computers”. That someone might be a government regulator in this case.

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  • BearOfaTime@lemm.ee ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Are you going to pay for all the systems and processes that need to change to get away from the paper trail?

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    • Zak@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      If the people responsible for whatever paper trail requirement there is in Dojan’s company or legal jurisdiction haven’t figured out some time in the past quarter century that this internet thing isn’t a passing fad, and started using digital communications and recordkeeping in a way that offsets its own cost in a relatively short period of time, the person or organization responsible for that decision is bad at computers.

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  • dojan@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Ah, I see. It sounded more like “someone doesn’t know how to just mail something.”

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