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From: candycanearter07 <candycanearter07@candycanearter07.nomail.afraid>
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Subject: Re: Favorite Font
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Farley Flud <ff@linux.rocks> wrote at 21:50 this Wednesday (GMT):
> On Tue, 22 Apr 2025 10:56:58 -0300, Ethan Carter wrote:
>
>>>
>>> Print?  Does anyone still print?
>> 
>> The web has become nearly intolerable.  Even the choice of font is
>> horrible in nearly all websites, not to mention text size, image and
>> ads.  It's funny how sometimes I invoke the print-friendly extension on
>> my browser just to read /on screen/.  But the rule is to actually print
>> it out.
>>
>
> Well, it depends on the web site.
>
> A lot of sites are designed only for mobile and they are certainly
> terrible.  But such sites usually contain no worthwhile information
>
> Then there are the various blogs that use standard blog templates
> that are loaded with javascript.  Some of these blogs are worthwhile
> and can be saved in the browser using the "Save Web Page Complete"
> option.  This should be followed by stripping the HTML file of
> all javascript and then removing all javascript and CSS files.
>
> However, the best way to save web pages is to use either "wget" or "curl"
> followed, again, by stripping all the javascript an CSS files.

I personally at least try to make my website compatible with this, and I
agree that it is nice to be able to wget a single page cleanly. If you
need it, though, theres always the recurse and page-requisites options.

>>
>>  And books, of course: I print out a chapter to see if I want to
>> continue the reading and it's much lighter to carry a chapter than the
>> entire physical book.  Electronic devices are not flexible like paper
>> and they reflect light in a different way and you can't write on their
>> margins using a device that lets you feel the friction of pencil on
>> paper or pen on paper.  Some pens are such beautiful devices.
>>
>> Anything interesting I find on the web I print for later reading.
>>
>
> Whew!  You must spend a fortune on ink or toner.
>
> Saving web pages as described above, or printing to PDF, is the
> much cheaper, and in the long term more desirable, option.  The same
> applies to books.
>
> I have literally tens of thousands of web pages saved.  If I were
> to physically print all of those the paper alone would weigh several
> tons.
>
> It would be even worse for the digital books in my collection.
> Printing even a tiny fraction of those would break the foundation
> of my home.
>
> One has to get accustomed to preserving and consuming digital data
> as digital data.  With competent software, annotating digital content
> can be done with ease, and with far more capability than pen or pencil.
> The print medium is really no longer appropriate.


I haven't printed in a while.
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