I got tired of spending 30 seconds crawling around under the table to unplug the printer cable from my home computer every time I want to print something off my laptop. Logically, the solution is to spend an hour setting up a secure home network so that I can sit on my ass, ten feet away, and print without getting up.
Except that I still have to get up and turn on the desktop so that I can access the printer from my laptop. Pathetic.
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