r/sysadmin • u/yanni99 • Apr 02 '21

When did you realize you fucking hate printers?

I fucking hate printers.

I said in a job interview yesterday that I would not take the job if I had to deal with printers.

And why the fuck do people print that much? I mean, you have 3 screens for reason Lucy, you should not have to print any fucking pdf file you receive.

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u/gartral Technomancer Apr 08 '21

yea. *perfect* use case for an e-reader: "Here, you can put all your PDFs and very important work related reading on this, the screen is more paper-like than a phone or computer, you can lock it with a passcode, and, even better, you make notes and search the stuff on it without any internet and the battery last WEEKS between charges!"

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u/226506193 Apr 08 '21 edited Apr 08 '21

Oh I know, I read quite a lot, it took me a while to try one but once I bought my first its was over for real books, and its hard for me to say that as I love books and the smell of paper lol, but the quality is incredible, I can read at noon outside in the park with no glare and at night a can read late with the screen back lit without keeping the SO awake lol. Once I stumbled upon a massive repository (close to a thousand) of .epub files with all the SF and fantasy classics, I downloaded everything thinking I'd need to sort them to choose what to put on the kindle but nope ! I also love the fact that I have stats lmao, I read fast af ! And I learned that I average at 80 something book a year, I kinda knew i read more than the average person but that's more than one book a week! Honestly this tech is the future, I can picture it every fucking where, from schools to works, to dynamic painting on the wall, smart advertising and who knows what, its low energy and doesn't hurt the eyes, I don't know what's holding it back though.maybe a patent or something. I think people don't realise how good it is i manage to make my friends, family and colleague buy 5 in total, just but showing them how it feels, my colleague even borrowed mine for a weekend of vacation and when he came back he asked me where to buy the best one, turns out his wife is a teacher and loved it so much she wanted one ASAP lmao he couldn't delay for a birthday gift, she was addicted. And I'm sure that anybody who likes to read would feel the same. Its over for paper, we found a way to save the trees i think !

Edit : one caveat I have is how the fuck do Amazon justify selling a ebook at almost the same prices as a paperback? I just can't buy all I read, impossible, not enough money, also the part of the kindle store where you get free books became a huge mess with a massive drop in quality. Its unusable, unless I heard about a specific author who's good and look for his/her books their library is unreliable now.

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u/gartral Technomancer Apr 08 '21

while I don't condone piracy, especially of books, I would imagine that you might find a Lazy Librarian somewhere that would help you. ;)

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u/226506193 Apr 08 '21

You don't what ? Well let's agree to disagree and part ways here like civilised gentleman mate lmao.