Papers with U.S. State Department markings, found Friday morning in the business center of an Alaskan hotel, revealed previously undisclosed and potentially sensitive details about the Aug. 15 meetings between President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir V. Putin in Anchorage.

Eight pages, that appear to have been produced by U.S. staff and left behind accidentally, shared precise locations and meeting times of the summit and phone numbers of U.S. government employees

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      He travels in a hotel with wings. I’d be astounded if there’s not a printer onboard air force one.

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          How often are you printing things? I don’t even own a printer. I spend maybe $0.50 a year printing things at the library.

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            Often enough that having a laser printer at home is vastly more convenient than having to make a special trip to the tree pulp store every time I want a physical copy of a document.

            Tax forms, manuals & documentation, tickets & passes, shipping labels, markable documents, patterns …

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              I’ve never owned a printer, but have always had a job where I could print personal stuff. Highly recommend. My current job, I have a personal laser printer and it’s awesome. I use it to print letters, notes for doctor’s visits, and craft patterns.

              and there’s no way I’d trust my phone enough to not print travel tickets. Paper backups ftw.

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                A personal work printer is the dream! I used to print anything that required a large volume of paper on work printers, but now that I rarely visit the office any more, I just blast everything through my nearing-vintage Brother laser (that replaced the HP laser printer from the '90s).

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              Tax forms

              Those are digital

              manuals & documentation

              Also digital

              tickets & passes

              Also digital

              shipping labels, markable documents, patterns

              These are the couple times a year thing that I print. Well, not patterns. Even “markable documents” I usually do digitally with a stylus. How often are you needing to do these things at a hotel?

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                Physical backups are not digital. Also, worksheets are easier done with pencil.

                Paper manuals are easier to flip through, dog-ear, and move around.

                Paper copies of tickets don’t need batteries or wireless service.

                The last few times I recall that I needed to print things at a hotel, they involved marriage license forms, credit reports and checklists. Most other times I’m visiting a facility that has a printer should I need anything printed.

                Oh, I’ve also had to print out plenty of hardcopy documents for mailing to various government services over the years, including the IRS and SSA.

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                  Physical backups are not digital

                  Not needed, you can backup digitally

                  Paper manuals are easier to flip through, dog-ear, and move around

                  Digital is much easier to search with ctrl+f and can be fed to a RAG so you can ask your favorite LLM questions about it

                  Paper copies of tickets don’t need batteries or wireless service

                  Traveling with a power bank is normal and you can save tickets to your offline wallet on your phone

                  The last few times I recall that I needed to print things at a hotel, they involved marriage license forms, credit reports

                  There is zero chance I’m trusting the security of hotel equipment with those sorts of paperwork.

                  Oh, I’ve also had to print out plenty of hardcopy documents for mailing to various government services over the years, including the IRS and SSA.

                  Right, the once every other year sort of thing and why most people don’t need a printer. I’ve only needed physical print outs for the IRS once. I gather all those forms digitally, encrypt them, and send them to my tax guy.

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                    Digital backups work until your provider decides you don’t matter as a customer. Paper backups are also easier to flip through. Glad you agree with me about worksheets, though.

                    I neither need nor want to slopify information. I don’t need to search a dozen-page document that I can flip through and move to various benches and worksites.

                    A sheet of paper takes up much, much less space than a powerbank.

                    All of your credit information has been leaked by Equifax ten times over already. A hotel printer ain’t shit.

                    Does your “tax guy” handle every single interaction between you and every government agency?