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Tech enthusiasts; "I have my entire house hooked up as a smart home, with automation, remote controlled lights, presence detection..."
Tech workers; "That's my printer, I keep a loaded gun next to it in case it makes a sound I don't like"
The engineer who designed the printer: "I keep a C4 charge strapped to it with a non-networked, mechanical, dead-man switch.
Why would someone that works with tech want to own a 2d printer?
Portable rage room, a la Office Space
Printing return labels mostly.
Occasionally, I will travel with hardcopy for travel itinerary, reservation info, flight info, and the occasional QR code to interface with various services and kiosks along the way. Reason being: sometimes, I'm in a busy place and I'm simply not getting to an outlet to feed a hungry phone. Plus, apps are aggressively networked these days (no offline data) so losing access to information due to spotty cell or wifi reception is a stupid problem to have, especially when paper is such a reliable workaround.
Also, a hard-copy backup for tax filings and other important transactions is cheap insurance.
I'll add that I'm currently using a 15-year-old HP laser printer that's on its second toner cartridge. An inkjet would have clogged and sent to e-waste about five times over by now. So it's hardly an inconvenience.
You have to print your own return labels? Every time I have needed one they print it out for me at any shop that takes deliveries.
Have to? No. Want to in order to avoid potential problems since I already have a printer around? Yes.
Keeping the gun at the ready kinda implies they don't want to own that piece of crap.
I work in Infosec and my house is full of smart devices.
But they live in their own vlan and can only talk to my home assistant server.