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I’d make a “print a pdf” joke, but honestly, that’s already an unnecessary “skill”.

Sadly, technology has moved towards single finger usability and thrown out features in the process. Printing a PDF is now easy, because there’s a big button (that sells you a cloud subscription for some reason), but it’s also the only thing the app does.

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Turret3857@infosec.pub ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
top 10 reasons I have my printer firewalled from the WAN network

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- EldritchFeminity@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
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helpImTrappedOnline@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
Now the new skill is “print to pdf”

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- lunarul@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  That comes out of the box with current versions of Windows. The era of Bullzip PDF Printer is gone.
  
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  - helpImTrappedOnline@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
    Yet its still a surprise to many. But I suppose that’s a knowledge gap not a skill issue. Now getting younger folks these day to follow a file directory, that’s a true challenge.
    
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dx1@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
PDFs are designed to be printed, that’s why they’re formatted as pages instead of continuous text like HTML. “Portable Document Format”.

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- Randelung@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  The joke to counter “you can’t even write cursive” and other boomer bs is “well at least I know how to print a PDF”, alluding to the abysmal tech intuition of some boomers, usually those in controlling roles like managers or CEOs.
  
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