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'Our long-term objective is to make printing a subscription' says HP CEO gunning for 2024's Worst Person of the Year award (www.pcgamer.com)

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Didn't GNU project start because of a printer?

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

I know of at least two professionals who make their notes with a Remarkable to pdf. Personal printers can go away.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Oh damn well if 2 people are doing it in your industry, printers must be useless to everyone!

When I worked in the field I carried a laptop but still mostly worked off of paper. Paper-sized ectronics are pretty useless on ladders and plans are too hard to read on a phone. Paper can also fold and go in a pocket

[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

You missunderstood, one is a psychiatrist, the other a social-something. I just say it's a thing already.

No, i don't see how paper is a neccesity in your examples. And i did work in a company for a while, creating software for phones/tablets/notebooks for exatly those usecases, optimizing workflows in industry. Especially plans can be vastly more useful in digital form, look up IFC format.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago

You don't see how paper would be significantly easier to use when you're on top of a ladder splicing wires?

Or how it might be preferable to a touch screen on a dirty construction site?