@da_667 @DaveMWilburn @scottwilson Hell, even living alone as a hermit I still need to interact with sheets of dead tree regularly enough that a (small laser) printer would be worth the shelf space. It's quite annoying to have to send something to someone else to get it printed and then go pick it up, especially if it's anything remotely sensitive. And an actual document scanner, not just a camera and perspective correction. The latter can easily look almost as bad as a shitty fax in my experience. (Though the scanner will likely be a separate 'stick' unit from the printer for space reasons; I live in a shoebox of an apartment...)

(And it would go hand in hand with the electric typewriter I use for filling out forms, because my handwriting is "clinically diagnosed as terrible" as well as making my hands go all weird if I write too much)

@ethagnawl @DaveMWilburn @scottwilson that's awesome! I've recently replaced a 15 year old Samsung laser hooked up to a RPi with cups.

I probably could've keep the darn thing running for even longer, but it stayed at my parents' after I moved out. I fixed it a few times, but once it started acting up too often, I got them a Brother laser. No issues since then.

Someone took the old printer same day we put it out, hope it'll serve them for a few more years at least.

@Ea5iyl @scottwilson

Good for Spain. Here in the States we're quite decentralized, so I doubt such a thing will ever happen here. The decentralization can be frustrating and inefficient, but at the same time, I fear what a centralized government could (and would) under a "leader" such as the one we have right now, so it does have good spots.