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Printing recovery codes would require me to either be price gouged by the printer ink cartel or use someone else's printer, and using someone else's printer is begging to get my account stolen.
I have no idea how to hammer things into metal plates, but I'm guessing that's even more expensive than printer ink.
Just use your pen and paper.
I can do that with alphanumeric codes, yeah, but can I get alphanumeric codes from GitHub, or is it going to be a QR code? I can't write down a QR code…
The recovery codes come as a set of numbers