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   Space Hobo Actual (spacehobo@teh.entar.net)'s status on Saturday, 14-Jan-2023 02:51:57 JST Space Hobo Actual

   • Evan Prodromou

   @evan LaserJet.

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     Evan Prodromou (evan@prodromou.pub)'s status on Saturday, 14-Jan-2023 02:51:57 JST Evan Prodromou

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     @spacehobo that's a great option if you hate trees, yes.

     If that's your goal, you can also just buy reams of printer paper and throw them directly in the trash.

     You can yell "Fuck you, environment!" and "Take that, arboreal species!" as you do it. Probably very cathartic.

     Weirdly, though, a lot of people aren't trying to deforest the planet as fast as possible, so they're going to need some alternative reading tools.

     No accounting for taste, I guess!

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     Evan Prodromou (evan@prodromou.pub)'s status on Saturday, 14-Jan-2023 02:54:42 JST Evan Prodromou

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     @spacehobo my computers run on waterfall magic!

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     Space Hobo Actual (spacehobo@teh.entar.net)'s status on Saturday, 14-Jan-2023 02:54:43 JST Space Hobo Actual

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     • Evan Prodromou

     @evan You're right. Computers run on electricity from coal power plants. Best to keep them running full-tilt ALL THE TIME. You'll show that filthy coal: you'll BURN IT ALL UP!!!

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     Evan Prodromou (evan@prodromou.pub)'s status on Saturday, 14-Jan-2023 03:20:03 JST Evan Prodromou

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     @spacehobo yes, I get it. I feel pretty bad printing out a lot of pages for a single read. But if it's something I'm going to re-use, it may make sense to print it.

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     Space Hobo Actual (spacehobo@teh.entar.net)'s status on Saturday, 14-Jan-2023 03:20:04 JST Space Hobo Actual

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     • Evan Prodromou

     @evan Anyway, I wasn't kidding.

     I tend to print long documents 2-up, double-sided or 4-up double-sided depending on the font sizes. Black text on a white background is too much eyestrain for me on a backlit screen, and I often want to mark the things up and spread a bunch of stuff around on a table side-by-side.

     Computers are pretty good for HTML or epub or whatever, because they just reflow to fit and you can just style them for dark mode. But PDFs are designed for printing, and have things like "pages" built into the model. If you don't want me to print it out, don't use a print-specific format like PDF!