‘Scanners are complicated’: why Gen Z faces workplace ‘tech shame’ (www.theguardian.com)

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[-] holgersson@lemm.ee 31 points 1 year ago

Counter point: Nobody knows how to operate printers and scanners because they are not build by people that are tech literate.

Give a printer or scanner a proper UI using the design principles that modern apps use and see how easy newer generations pick things up

[-] PascalSausage@beehaw.org 13 points 1 year ago

I am convinced that printer companies make their products as esoteric and intimidating to the average person as possible on purpose so that they can sell expensive servicing packages to businesses.

[-] jjagaimo@lemmy.one 12 points 1 year ago

Id wager that they dont put too much money into R&D and just pay one guy to port over the same code from their last last last generation printer to the new one. Over time its become an unrecognizable mess that is just hacked into working and no one ever takes a look under the hood. Their main market is the ink anyways, so making the printer good at what it does is an afterthought