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"
this post was submitted on 04 Dec 2025
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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?
Keeping the gun at the ready kinda implies they don't want to own that piece of crap.
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.
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.
I think that's cruel. Besides: how do you keep the bats from flying away?
It is cruel, but after you hit one appliance with a bat, it tends to get a lot less flighty.
The obvious solution is to make a smart bat that refuses to hit any smart appliances
In that case I will go into the forest and find a nice thick branch and use it to smash the smart bat.
Make smart clouds that start raining lava if anyone takes a branch on the ground
The only good toaster/clanker is a dead one.
Anyone else spend too much time trying to see if that background was a magic-eye?
There needs to be repeating patterns for a magic eye to work. Then that pattern is adjusted to create the 3d image when you "mix up" the part of the pattern each eye is looking at.
Which smart appliances great you?
All of them with Alexa or some nonsense in them. My dad has tv remotes with google voice controls, but I did not set them up for him and he did not want them either. Clearly you should keep those in a hermetically sealed Faraday cage, burried 6 feet deep and have the hole filled up with concrete. Bit annoying to change the channel tho
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