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How often do you print anything (for personal reasons)?

ZirconBlue said:
I am in a game using Roll20, and we keep our sheets updated in the system, but I still like a paper copy during game sessions.
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I've found that whatever advantages paper still has are thoroughly outweighed by the advantages of not using paper. For me. It's just so much more convenient not having to constantly write and erase things like hit points and treasure. And, as I said, software never forgets to add a bonus.

But as I like to say, the first rule of D&D is to have fun, and if you're doing that, you can't be playing it wrong. :D
 
arthwollipot said:
I've found that whatever advantages paper still has are thoroughly outweighed by the advantages of not using paper. For me. It's just so much more convenient not having to constantly write and erase things like hit points and treasure. And, as I said, software never forgets to add a bonus.

But as I like to say, the first rule of D&D is to have fun, and if you're doing that, you can't be playing it wrong. :D
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I've met more than one person whose idea of fun is ruining it for everyone else.

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theprestige said:
I've met more than one person whose idea of fun is ruining it for everyone else.

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Those kinds of people do not last long in the games I play in. The group has to be having fun, not just one person.
 
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My laser printer has been non-functional for a couple of years now - both the ethernet and the USB port have died (no WiFi). So I stopped printing out the things I like to have a hard copy of although I don't strictly need any, and the only times I needed a printer since have been associated for christmas gifts for to some 20 frineds, which included written instructions. For that, I went to a "copy shop" with a USB stick.

(A propos USB stick: The other day at work, a technical support guy came to our office and asked if anyone had a USB stick, he forgot his but needed one to transfer data from his notebook computer to some diagnostics device. I happened to have one in my backpack and helped out. At that time, I found that my younger colleagues, those under 30, didn't know what a USB stick is!)
 
Oystein said:
My laser printer has been non-functional for a couple of years now - both the ethernet and the USB port have died (no WiFi). So I stopped printing out the things I like to have a hard copy of although I don't strictly need any, and the only times I needed a printer since have been associated for christmas gifts for to some 20 frineds, which included written instructions. For that, I went to a "copy shop" with a USB stick.

(A propos USB stick: The other day at work, a technical support guy came to our office and asked if anyone had a USB stick, he forgot his but needed one to transfer data from his notebook computer to some diagnostics device. I happened to have one in my backpack and helped out. At that time, I found that my younger colleagues, those under 30, didn't know what a USB stick is!)
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I can't even imagine what they would be using instead.
 
I print a few sheets a month; there's some things I find it easier to read and annotate on paper, especially if it's something I've written.

I printed out the schedule for a festival I was at the other weekend, and noted which bands I wanted to see. I then forgot to take it with me. :D I had taken a photo of it on my phone, so I had that. There are apps that would do much the same thing, but for some reason I find having scribbled arrows and circled names easier to follow.

I've also been printing, at college, photos for exhibition next month. I don't currently have a photo quality printer at home.
 
Just printed an e-ticket, something I haven't done very often. It's supposed to allow me to get in quicker in an expedited line, but if everyone has them I probably won't see a difference.
 
Oystein said:
A propos USB stick: The other day at work, a technical support guy came to our office and asked if anyone had a USB stick, he forgot his but needed one to transfer data from his notebook computer to some diagnostics device. I happened to have one in my backpack and helped out. At that time, I found that my younger colleagues, those under 30, didn't know what a USB stick is!
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I used to use them all the time but the last two companies I've worked for disabled ports and forbade USB sticks for security reasons -- they know some idiot will bring in a virus or unsecure secure data.

So now when my mom needs me to print something for her I have her email it to me. She's able to successfully attach a file to an email about 50% of the time.
 
arthwollipot said:
I had to use a USB a little while ago. I couldn't find the one I still have.

They are using the cloud. OneDrive, DropBox, iCloud, Google Drive.
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I have never used any of those services. I just have an aversion to sending my stuff away like that. Most of my USB transfer is moving stuff from one of my laptops to another. I could do it on the network but often have trouble connecting to one of them.
 
alfaniner said:
I have never used any of those services. I just have an aversion to sending my stuff away like that. Most of my USB transfer is moving stuff from one of my laptops to another. I could do it on the network but often have trouble connecting to one of them.
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I use all of them. I am a cloud whore. Ideally, I’d just use one, but they all have a use in my “system”.
 
Orphia Nay said:
I use all of them. I am a cloud whore. Ideally, I’d just use one, but they all have a use in my “system”.
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Ditto. They're just too convenient, and their entire business model is to maintain secure access to those files, so I don't have any particular concern that I'm going to lose them.
 
arthwollipot said:
Ditto. They're just too convenient, and their entire business model is to maintain secure access to those files, so I don't have any particular concern that I'm going to lose them.
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You could also say that the safety of their airplanes was important to the business of Boeing, but the desire to earn more money by reducing spending was given priority.

I use Dropbox a lot, and I certainly hope that the security aspect is given the highest priority at Dropbox, but I still backup everything to an external hard disk about once a week.
 
steenkh said:
You could also say that the safety of their airplanes was important to the business of Boeing, but the desire to earn more money by reducing spending was given priority.

I use Dropbox a lot, and I certainly hope that the security aspect is given the highest priority at Dropbox, but I still backup everything to an external hard disk about once a week.
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Nah, can't be bothered. I've been using Dropbox for literally a decade and I've never not had access to it.

I'm thinking of moving it all over to OneDrive now though. I'm paying for it, might as well get some use out of it.
 
steenkh said:
You could also say that the safety of their airplanes was important to the business of Boeing, but the desire to earn more money by reducing spending was given priority.

I use Dropbox a lot, and I certainly hope that the security aspect is given the highest priority at Dropbox, but I still backup everything to an external hard disk about once a week.
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For me the cloud services are my backups, my "originals" are on my devices. Probably as much an age thing as anything but when they suggest I can "clear out" gigabytes of data from my devices because they've stored them in "the cloud" there is no way I'm going to click "yes please"!
 
Darat said:
For me the cloud services are my backups, my "originals" are on my devices. Probably as much an age thing as anything but when they suggest I can "clear out" gigabytes of data from my devices because they've stored them in "the cloud" there is no way I'm going to click "yes please"!
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Yes. My backups are at home (I am a fanatic, so I have backups on three different hard disks on two different locations), but Dropbox (which I pay for) is more of an accessibility gadget, enabling me an my wife to have access to everything on all our devices everywhere. Although my wife tends to use prints to ensure availability for everything except photos.
 
I’m very wary about thinking of file accessibility tools such as Dropbox as in any way a form of backup. If you delete a file somewhere and that deletion gets synchronised… that scares me. I do daily, weekly and monthly backups to various long-term storage platforms that sit strategically away from any ongoing activities.
 
Darat said:
For me the cloud services are my backups, my "originals" are on my devices. Probably as much an age thing as anything but when they suggest I can "clear out" gigabytes of data from my devices because they've stored them in "the cloud" there is no way I'm going to click "yes please"!
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I use cloud services mainly for sharing photos. I certainly wouldn't use them for primary storage, and backing up all my photos to the cloud would cost a great deal.
 
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