Ah, so the reason he can't use technology is because the department inkjet printer has obviously been made by enslaving a Dixingian with inkjet powers inside it! It is not that he cannot use technology, it is that he consciously abstains from technology for ethical reasons! After all, if telephones ran by squishing one of your people inside (or worse – were made by destructively extracting the Dixing power out of them), would you use them?