Echo Dot

Reason number 245 of why not to buy a Nintendo switch.

I think you can send faxes to computers and they just get received as emails with attached PDFs. It’s not great because of course it’s just a picture of a document, so it’s not searchable or editable unless you run it through an OCR program.

Emails better though because with a fax machine you can only address it to the phone number, which is usually one number for the entire organization or for the entire department if it was a big company.

With email you can individually address it to the actual intended recipient.

I only really worked in an office for a very short period of time that had fax machines but I remember the big problem with them was that you knew you had received something but no one could find the piece of paper. Or the reverse, you’d sent someone something and now you couldn’t find the document you sent, so then they had to send you the scan that you sent them. Which meant you had to phone them to get them to do it.

As boring as email is, if something has been sent or received you can always just pull it up again.

I’m pretty sure at one point we even printed out emails so the admin person, who was old and refused to adapt, could keep using the old filing system.

This gun was involved in a murder, but we’re not going to bother investigating it anyway so you guys may as well have it.