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mikeyj777@reddit

Oh yes. Always print it out when I get to the airport. I have waited in a long ass line only for them to tell me their phone reader was broken.

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Baked_Potato_732@reddit

Oh hell no. But I export to Apple wallet, screenshot and have the app open. No way am I trusting my ADHD ass to keep up with a piece of paper.

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flamingknifepenis@reddit

I feel like that’s the dividing line between Gen X and Xennials. Gen X prints a paper boarding pass because they expect the computer to magically go “poof” ans leave them stranded.

Xennials know that a paper boarding pass would still be useless if the computer goes poof anyway and would probably create a lot more confusion when it gets wrinkled in exactly the wrong spot and / or the person at the desk had never seen or heard of a paper pass before and needs to call for help, so we create as much redundancy as possible.

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me_bails@reddit

I've not had issues with their computers. I have had issues with my phone before.

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Turbulent-Pea-8826@reddit

No. I am not worried their computer will go poof. Like you said, if that happens we are all fucked. I am worried my computer will go poof.

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theecommunist@reddit

Yes good point, I feel the difference is that Gen Xers understand that their phone failing or turning off would have no effect on the function of the airlines' computer systems. But whatever, you do you.

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thecatsofwar@reddit

This is correct. Only the Boomer Lite Xers would print

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Turbulent-Pea-8826@reddit

I might use my Apple wallet, but I have the email and a paper copy as backup just in case. Like the post said I don’t trust something not to go wrong at the last minute.

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modsguzzlehivekum@reddit

lol I thought I was weird for taking a screenshot too lol

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Baked_Potato_732@reddit

Went to one airport with bad reception and had trouble getting the app to load. So, now screenshots.

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modsguzzlehivekum@reddit

Had my phone glitch once and wallet wasn’t being cooperative. Photo app is always stable though.

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Leading-Summer-4724@reddit

Same. I screenshot because I’ve been in places where pulling up the digital ticket took stupid long (or didn’t work at all), while there’s a line behind me and my ADHD ass was late anyway…screenshots are the way to go.

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don51181@reddit

I do that and send my wife a copy. I tell her “you never know”.

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no1kn0wsm3@reddit

Rather have it on my iPhone as well.

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Wasting-tim3@reddit

Those of us with ADHD know this is the way to

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somainthewatersupply@reddit

Same here! No paper, but multiple digital files all over the place.

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brakeb@reddit

I still have screenshots of boarding passes in my phone, in addition to the flight app and email attachment

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Inevitable_Channel18@reddit

Paper?? lol no no. A screenshot

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Thors_hmr@reddit

Yep. I print everything- so true

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Thoughtful_Sunshine@reddit

Oh man… I shuddered reading that, because that was devastating when it happened! shudder 😄

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DarksunDaFirst@reddit

cries in wordperfect

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Nauti-Grl@reddit

The agent at the airport on Wednesday asked if I wanted a paper boarding pass. My reply, “Do I look like a boomer to you?”

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Jrello4you@reddit

Woah woah woah lol I am only 31 and still ask for a paper boarding pass even though I have it stored on my phone wallet. Maybe it eases the unlikely possibility that I won’t be able to board if something happens to my phone.

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Entire-Order3464@reddit

Fly all the time. On a flight rn. Defn not trying to keep track of paper boarding passes. Just add them to the Apple wallet or whatever the Android equivalent is. That way you're not worried about internet connection.

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oomatter@reddit

Just add them to the Apple wallet or whatever the Android equivalent is

"Wallet"

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DamarsLastKanar@reddit

No idea what an "apple wallet" is. Where is it?

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oomatter@reddit

You have an iPhone or something else?

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BlackieDad@reddit

If you weren’t pressing ctrl+s every two minutes then it’s kinda on you

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arcxjo@reddit

Didn't help when my desk fell apart while I was typing and the computer literally crashed to the ground.

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djsynrgy@reddit

..Has the statute of limitations past? You can tell us: You didn't happen to like, karate chop the desk a moment before, or something?

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arcxjo@reddit

It's been 22 years, but no, it was just a shitty Sauder desk. I put a cigarette down in the ashtray that was sitting on it, and next thing I know the monitor is falling through the tower on the floor. It was the final paper for my Legal Writing class, which I ended up failing and dropping out of law school over.

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yourlilneedle@reddit

My God...that is a huge ripple that effected the trajectory of your life. I hope you found another path.

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arcxjo@reddit

I mean my grades in other classes were just as bad but I prefer to blame the desk.

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Mr_Pogi_In_Space@reddit

"Save often and in different slots"

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GarminTamzarian@reddit

Sounds like someone plays vintage console RPGs on an emulator!

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djsynrgy@reddit

Is the Mass Effect series vintage, already? 😆

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Neither-Principle139@reddit

Nope! I’m still on my original NES and N64!!

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FoppyRETURNS@reddit

I started doing this after losing 3 hours of work!

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cheerful_cynic@reddit

Learned to do this back in DOS days

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NegativeBeginning400@reddit

I feel like this is a lesson all of us learned the hard way one time (some of us just got frequent reminders the hard way as well).

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Immediate-Yogurt-558@reddit

As if we werent dealing w enough paranoia dealing w becoming sexually active during the height of HIV/AIDS, and living thru Columbine, and 9/11. God forbid we forget to save after every other sentence wo fear of losing everything.

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DiaDeLosMuebles@reddit

Honestly it was just muscle memory. I did it without ever thinking about it. Anytime I stopped to think I did it.

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red286@reddit

I just enabled autosave. Saves a copy every 5 minutes. Worst case scenario I lose 5 minutes worth of work, oh no (I mean, it is still frustrating, but nowhere near as bad as losing a day's work).

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a_solid_6@reddit

I'm gonna need to see some ID

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DiaDeLosMuebles@reddit

We’re all talking about a time before autosave.

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Garudius@reddit

I worked the Conputer lab at college. We had a Chalk Board on the back wall and in large letters.

"SAVE YOUR WORK OFTEN"

Inevitable around mid terms at 2:00 AM would be that one guy/girl freaking out cause all their work was gone.

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Informal_Ostrich_733@reddit

I still hit the save button constantly for work.

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Checktheusernombre@reddit

I worked at the computer lab at college. How many times I had to tell crying students there was nothing I could do to get their work back. Unless some how they magically saved it to the floppy that was corrupted and then I could do a disk scan and recover. That was like one in fifty tho.

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Quirky_Cookie4015@reddit

It's great until it isn't!

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edwardturnerlives@reddit

I fly about 2-3 times a month. I haven't printed a boarding pass since.... cant remember.

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Ghoulie_Marie@reddit

If your phone decides to update as your flight is boarding they aren't going to hold the plane for you. Need redundancy

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mischievous_misfit13@reddit

I went to a concert Friday night and was terrified my app wouldn’t work. Like I have anxiety when it doesn’t scan right away.

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Mental_Salamander_68@reddit

It's not just Gen-x, it'sBaby Boomers also.

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lexluthor_i_am@reddit

This is why I like love adding my boarding pass to my wallet on the iPhone. Technology has its perks.

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scrotanimus@reddit

No way. I use the app all the time and I travel for work.

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GladosPrime@reddit

I print all documents😑

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blove135@reddit

I've noticed a lot of the younger generations don't have printers readily available. Obviously if they really need to print something they find one but they don't own printers.

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SemiUniqueIdentifier@reddit

Printer ink is stupid expensive.

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GarminTamzarian@reddit

I recently switched to a Brother laser printer and really love it.

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Dark_Shroud@reddit

I was going to say this. A basic B&W laser printer from Brother is worth it's weight in gold.

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GarminTamzarian@reddit

And it's not even particularly expensive.

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jdsmith575@reddit

A B&W laser printer is a wonderful investment. You’ll probably get 3k pages out of the first toner and 10 years of light use.

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Dark_Shroud@reddit

And when the black toner cartridge it comes with finally runs out you can buy the XL black cartridge that will probably last fifteen years for the average user.

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GarminTamzarian@reddit

I was really worried I would miss being able to print in color, but it's so much faster and simpler to print things (and doesn't smudge) which more than makes up for it.

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the_well_read_neck_@reddit

I just goto the library if I need something printed. I don't print enough things to justify the cost of owning one along with the ink.

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red286@reddit

I haven't owned a printer since university, but I have access to one at work if I ever need something printed.

Plus, I'm on good enough terms with the people at the drug store next door to where I live that if I'm in a pinch I can just go down there and ask them to print something out for me.

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PK-Baha@reddit

We head down to the library if need be. Most often though, we print at work lol. Fugg it!

Also we use the apps and print just in case.

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Real-Championship331@reddit

I find it easier and less of a hassle than downloading an app. I don't understand how it's a difficult thing to keep track of - just put it in your pocket.

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thecatsofwar@reddit

You mean like how difficult of a thing it is to join post boomer world and download an and keep it on the phone in your pocket?

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Real-Championship331@reddit

Yeah, I would rather just have a boarding pass than download an app. It doesn't really seem any easier or convenient for me.

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Petrostar@reddit

Plus then you have yet-another-usless-app to delete.

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thecatsofwar@reddit

How cheap and memory starved of a phone are you buying if you need to delete apps? Or is it an OCD thing where everything on your phone has to have purpose?

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red286@reddit

I do both. I keep printed backups in my carry-on just in case.

Because I've lived through "sorry, our systems are down right now, hopefully they'll be back up in an hour or two" dozens of times.

That, and depending on where you're flying to, if you whip out your phone, you might just get a blank stare.

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vintage_seaturtle@reddit

Why I still carry a new atlas when I road trip. GPS goes out you’re screwed haha

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Spicy_Tac0@reddit

A phrase I've been using for a long time. "As wonder and awesome as technology is. Its far from perfect and it can and will fail ypu at some point.

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LazyJane211@reddit

When we're checking bags anyway it's easy to just print the tickets at the kiosk.

One time, on United, the ticket scanners at the gate went down, so they let everyone with a paper ticket board first. They made everyone else line up at the gate desk to get a printed ticket. They were tearing the tickets and keeping the stub, just like the good old days! Will probably never happen to us again, but we don't skip the paper tickets.

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Significant-Rush-129@reddit

lol, GenX still prints boarding passes because they can’t adjust to the digital wallet! I always laugh when I see these oldies messing with paper at the airport.

Sigh, at middle age it’s great to actually have people that still make you feel young, so I really should be thanking these paper boarding pass people.

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Forsythia77@reddit

It's all fun and games until you get your cell phone pickpocketed in Cartagena. None of those digital copies did me any good. I print out all the important stuff just in case.

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fingertrapt@reddit

6 page psychology paper. Poof. Gone. It was 4am.

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Haemwich@reddit

And it was all like bleep bleep bleepbleepbleep bleep

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Mudassar40@reddit

Yeah, keeping a printed copy as backup is a smart move.

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moonbunnychan@reddit

My phone once completely died while my plane was beginning to board one time. Just utterly left this mortal coil with no warning when I went to pull up my ticket. And had to go up to the desk and get them to print me one...while they were boarding. Ever since then I have ALWAYS printed out my boarding pass.

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PlatypusFreckles@reddit

Word

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Inspi@reddit

I print because batteries die. I leave a copy of everything flight related in my carry on, in my checked, and in my pocket.

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Few_Improvement_6357@reddit

You should absolutely print your boarding pass. There are scenarios, no matter how small or unlikely, where TSA will deny you entry without a printed boarding pass. Why risk it?

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Eagleburgerite@reddit

Did it this past week even though I had a digital version on my phone.

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shebringsdathings@reddit

I'm so old I be like, so you can just CLOSE Google docs? I don't have to save it? Nah, I'll still save it

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ttttunos@reddit

It's like when you get a digital ticket for the movie theater but they intentionally have no service in the movie theater to deter people from using their phone during the movie so you can't load your digital ticket and have to go outside, load your ticket, and then come back inside.

Fuck

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KingCarnivore@reddit

I don’t even own a printer. I haven’t printed a boarding pass since like 2014.

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canisdirusarctos@reddit

Yeah, I’ve been digital as long as they’ve let me, pretty much. Used to get the printed passes at the airports when they still expected one, because I haven’t had a working printer since about 2005.

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Room234@reddit

Honestly as often as Amazon Web Services goes down and takes out everything from Visa to Facebook to Reddit to CNN you'd think they'd learn this lesson too.

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canisdirusarctos@reddit

When this happens and it takes you out, it’s probably also taking the airline systems out…

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canisdirusarctos@reddit

I show my pass on my watch. If that fails, I have their app. If that fails, I have it in the wallet on my phone. If all those fail, it is unlikely I was ever getting on that plane.

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elphaba00@reddit

I obsessively save when I'm working in Excel. I lost a few hours of work in a spreadsheet one time, and that was enough for me. To top it off, it was in a collab session with a team of people so they saw it all go down.

My 2025 solution - Keep all work in OneDrive. With every key stroke, everything is backed up immediately.

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Exciting-Argument-67@reddit

OneDrive is not infallible, just so you know. People have definitely lost files that they had saved in OneDrive. It might not be common, but it happens.

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OceanWaveSunset@reddit

The amount of issues I had this year from my OneDrive and problems with the OneDrive support were a big factor why I cancelled my family m365 sub and have moved us all away from it.

I hate the company Microsoft has chosen to become.

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thelizardlarry@reddit

This is why I have a real wallet and mot just a phone. Paying for stuff is mission critical.

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Demonkey44@reddit

Screenshot to photos, save to g-drive, .pdf file in notes, keep app open

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dkonigs@reddit

There's always the fear that the phone (or the badly written app on it) will malfunction at the most inopportune moment during travel and then you'll be SOL. So I do sometimes still get the paper copy, even if I end up just using my phone the majority of the time.

Though it is annoying when you need to show the passes several times, and each time it involves "open app, wait a few seconds, click the option, wait a few seconds" all while people are waiting on you.

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noronto@reddit

My dad had an independent office next to his friend’s accounting firm. I went there to type out a grade 8 science class paper. Not being familiar with computers I asked a guy there how to print it. Somehow he erased the paper and ended up calling his girlfriend to type it up for me because he was probably a little scared of the repercussions.

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Isaac1867@reddit

I've flown a couple times in recent months and at least on the airline I've been using most people still seem to be using paper boarding passes. The number of people I see presenting their phone to be scanned at the gate are a distinct minority.

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tool_stone@reddit

Boarding passes always sent to email, screen shot, and printed out when I get to the airport. ALWAYS. Digital copy as well as paper.

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No-Emu-8717@reddit

I tripped and kicked a power strip in our computer lab when I was a sophomore. The in unison om my god no's still give me nightmares sometimes. No auto save really sucked

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Practically_Hip@reddit

Lame attempt at drama. This is not 2008.

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Accomplished_Pen980@reddit

The probability of a printer error or failure is directly related to how important the print is to you.

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randfunction@reddit

I have the boarding pass on my phone but always print a copy at the kiosk on the airport just in case. Call me boomer if you want (def xennial) but my phone and various apps have taken a random shit for me way too many times for me to trust them entirely for something important.

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LemonPartyW0rldTour@reddit

I travel a lot for work. I keep an atlas in my vehicle because you never know what could happen

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dregan@reddit

Visual Studio still fucking does this. If you cut a file and paste it without saving first, it won't save before moving and all of your work disappears. Piece of shit.

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flowbkwrds@reddit

I printed my festival ticket last weekend and just knew I was showing my age. Also went all weekend without my phone, like a person from the 90s.

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Exciting-Argument-67@reddit

I bet you were a lot more mentally "present" at the festival than someone who had the urge to check their phone every few minutes, though.

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andrewdiane66@reddit

if I have to watch another speaker attempt to give a speech from their phone, mess something up and do the whole, "uh, hang on, having a little technical difficulty here, heh heh....uh just a minute while I get back to my notes, wait, uh, just a sec..." while they putz around with their phone... A piece of paper never runs out of battery, freezes up or flip to another application because you accidentally tapped a finger on the edge. Plus, some schmendrik squinting at their phone doesn't instill much confidence in what you're saying...

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E6DA@reddit

I just screenshot that shit. Who the fuck owns a printer?

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Exciting-Argument-67@reddit

As someone who has had to be the guardian to a parent and an estate executor several times, I've needed my printer on many occasions. Working with courts and governmental agencies can be *very* old-school.

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adamroadmusic@reddit

The kiosk at the airport prints your boarding pass

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devilinthedetails@reddit

Hard pass, download them the app on my phone before going to the airport

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Merentha8681@reddit

That which can go wrong shall go wrong.

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msguider@reddit

I'm reliving that. Might puke.

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Tribe303@reddit

I'm a GenX IT guy. I have lived a digital only lifestyle for decades now. I stopped getting a home phone in the 90s for example.

But seriously, fuck modern technology and every single tech bros. I specifically print everything out just to piss people off. I LOVE to turn on 'Karen mode' when I get any kickback.

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kellyk311@reddit

An entire 24 page phycology research report, citations and all. poof

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Fahlulah@reddit

Every. Single. Trip.

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1pt20oneggigawatts@reddit

As time progresses, it becomes more reliable with more fail-safes. It helps when you've been paying attention for the last 30 years. lol

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__ohno_notagain__@reddit

Technology is unreliable.

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PokerbushPA@reddit

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BKindigochild@reddit

I caved and started printing mine, but clippy will live-on in my heart.

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rollem@reddit

I understand the sentiment but I don't want to bother with the printer and I know they can print out another pass at the counter or the gate and a absolutely need 100% in order to travel is my ID and a credit card.

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Soggy_Porpoise@reddit

100% bullshit.

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ailish@reddit

No, no I don't.

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Soulman682@reddit

My baby boomer parents are more tech savvy than a lot of Gen Xers. Suck eggs!

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5uperman8atman@reddit

Had that experience. Understand the sentiment. Hate printing shit.

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w0rsh1pm3owo@reddit

[2] Hewlett-Packard liked this post. ink subscriptions for all.

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HNIT110508@reddit

I still print up my boarding passes. 🤷🤷🤷

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Cross_22@reddit

Coming to think of it I don't remember MS Word (the good versions, pre-2003) ever crashing on me. Wrote my thesis using that with tons of pages and images; no issues.

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ThriftianaStoned@reddit

No Gen X person I know does

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Jerkrollatex@reddit

I do but I also carry a very elaborate first aid kit in my car. Some of us are just born scouts.

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Conscious_Drawer8356@reddit

Dude, some us of are always prepared for the unexpected but also don’t feel the need to waste paper and ink

Not even my boomer mum prints out tickets/boarding passes

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TheLuckyCanuck@reddit

I carry a good first aid kit (and have a better one at home!) but I happily eliminate any paper waste possible. Scouts Canada taught me to "be prepared", but also to "leave it better than you found it".

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TheRealDoomsong@reddit

Always have a backup

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throwitlikethewind@reddit

Guilty as charged. I have trust issues.

But my boomer family members also like printing out their boarding passes/itinerary as well, so I am in good company LOL.

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xxMarcWithaCxx@reddit

And then the cartridge in your printer is dead ☠️

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freakrocker@reddit

Trigger Warning

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481126@reddit

Considering one thing breaks and 1/3 of the internet stops working IDK why people trust these apps.

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hernondo@reddit

1000% this. I know that piece of paper isn't going to suddenly malfunction as I'm trying to board the plane.

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mrinkyface@reddit

Save every couple of minutes, just in case

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Mike__O@reddit

Not me. I fly all the time and stopped bothering with that pocket litter years ago

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Rolands_missing_head@reddit

I stopped printing it out a long time ago but I will screenshot important stuff just in case the page or app won’t load (which has never happened lol)

Same reason I pack 2 pairs of underwear for every day I’m on vacation, gotta be ready to shit your pants every day!

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TP_Crisis_2020@reddit

LMAO, I thought I was the only one who packed extra underwear in case of a shart.

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GM_Nate@reddit

i only just stopped printing out boarding passes this year.

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tonybotz@reddit

Same. I didn’t trust the process, but it worked

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AppropriateTouching@reddit

I love having a hard copy of important shit.

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autocosm@reddit

When something is important, like making my flight, I have redundancies. If it's expensive enough, I'll have a printout of a concert ticket in my pocket but still try to scan the phone first. I'll still ask for a paper receipt instead of crossing my fingers I'll get the email an hour later.

I think people get hung up on generational signaling more than utility. The Gen Z at my last job was so disgusted by the suggestion that we print and file customer contracts (some for 2-3 years as a redundancy), and they destroyed all existing paper records. Now they are tied to that particular cloud software, who just had a data breach and raised their prices, and can't shop around.

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SidFinch99@reddit

I'm honestly really frustrated that ADC maps cost so much because I'd like to maps of more sparsely populated areas I might travel through in case I have an issue with GPS in the middle of the woods.

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Apprehensive_Hat8986@reddit

I open the e-ticket and take a screenshot. Not a perfect backup, but the agents can also look-up and re-print if needed.

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OnlyGuestsMusic@reddit

I’m pretty digital. In fact, I’m pretty phone based. I rarely open a computer in my personal life. My millennial wife has had a harder time moving away from the old ways.

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Homo_erotic_toile@reddit

Plus I need a bookmark

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jjgfun@reddit

If I really like a movie or show, I still by the disk, because I don't trust Amazon or whatever to uphold my digital copies in the future.

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debaser64@reddit

I still kept physical maps of nearby cities in my car until a few years ago.

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gale_force@reddit

Yep. I print. Scans way faster than most with phones.

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HandWashing2020@reddit

Happened so many times

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Klutzy_Word_6812@reddit

I lost my drivers license in Montego Bay airport in 2006. That was a panic situation. I somehow managed to get back into the states despite having no valid photo ID. I will lose a boarding pass. Even if I know exactly where I put it, it’s not there. I’m using the app, sending to my Apple wallet, and saving the email so I don’t need internet to pull it up. That said, I started writing a paper in High School and at about 3:00 AM my computer froze and I lost everything. My mom restarted and typed it for me. It’s also a serious problem that I’m a procrastinator.

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Head-Reindeer-4082@reddit

I’m a ‘66 Gen X so I didn’t have to deal with that…and I still remember the name of the girl I hired to type all my papers.

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chawrawbeef@reddit

I noticed when I started training people who were younger than me at work about 15 years ago or so that they would get pissed when the program we work in would freeze or crash unexpectedly. I, on the other hand, was conditioned to hit save after almost every new thing I did- as if I expected the program to crash. So I actually just felt relief when the program didn’t crash. At first I thought it was due to my pessimistic nature, but I soon realized it was a generational divide. Generally, in my experience people born in the late 80’s and beyond expect technology to work consistently. I still expect failure and am simply marveled when the computer gives me painless, error-free success.

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madsci@reddit

My friend lost his senior thesis to a virus the day before it was due - totally wiped out his file allocation table. He called me in the middle of the night from two time zones away and I had to get him a copy of Norton Disk Edit and walk him through finding each cluster of the file on the hard drive manually and copying out all of the text. He had to redo all of the formatting and images and I don't think he got any sleep but he got the paper in on time.

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PilotC150@reddit

Even back in the day when this was something that happened, most people knew enough to keep a backup of super important things like this on a floppy disk.

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madsci@reddit

Yeah, his backups were just way out of date. Which they will pretty much always be unless you're vigilant about maintaining your backups.

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ChaoticForkingGood@reddit

I keep paper copies of everything when I'm working. Everyone always thinks I'm nuts until the computer systems go down.

I feel old now...

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