Last time I printed a document, I wrote down the whole process:
- Open settings and look at list of printers; David tells me which printer I should use.
- Go to print dialogue; don’t see the relevant printer.
- Go back to settings and hit buttons which sound vaguely like they’ll add/install something.
- Go back to print dialogue, realize the printer I wanted had probably been there already and I hadn’t been looking in the right place.
- Hit print button.
- David brings me to where the printer was a few days ago. It is not there.
- Ask Lauren where it is. It's in room 1A1.
- Briefly go the wrong direction because we’re not sure where that room is.
- Find the room, and the printer. A stack of things has printed, including two pages of my thing. The printer is out of paper.
- Go look in the basement where the printer paper was a few days ago.
- … that has also moved.
- Follow Alina to the new location of the paper.
- Spend a minute looking for the paper in that room before finding it.
- Bring back the paper. Person in the room with printer has already found more paper somehow else [...]
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First published:
November 1st, 2025
Source:
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/BKkoTFq7Tk6LG9N2E/why-is-printing-so-bad
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