For me it’s calculating. Too many people put math into their search engines and not their calculator.
Searching the filesystem. There’s no reason Windows Search needs to access the internet. Fucking Bing.
That’s not true, all my files are stored on onedrive nowadays, which is super fast and responsive. Oh wait… it’s actually slow and laggy and randomly deletes stuff from your pc and you’re not even allowed to give your files perfectly normal names like .aux files in a LaTeX project.
At least we have Everything for local search.
Reading- I am absolutely horrible at this. I’ll read anything and everything online, but never make the time to read a physical book.
Reading online fanfiction is free. Sure, the quality varies, but I can quit any time I want. I just don’t want to.
Reading anything online is free if you’re slightly motivated.
I do this because all too often book print is tiny whereas I can adjust font size on a digital page.
I love physical books, but accessibility is sometimes a problem.
To turn off and on light bulbs
I do this on my intranet with home assistant, looks like I flew just under the radar
Oh, yeah, my Home Assistant setup is fucking monstrous but also, crucially, self-hosted. Why the fuck do I want my thermostat and radiators to be talking via a datacentre in another country?
But that would require getting up off my sofa and walking across the living room.
Remotes exist
Note taking
Whacking off
Analog masturbation just hits different. Or so I’ve been told
Personally I prefer the full range of motion offered by analogue.
How does one do that online?
You haven’t seen the latest chatGPT update?
For me it’s ordering takeout. I never order takeout online, I always call up the place with my phone 🤷♀️ much easier to customize an order this way too
I hate the phone: wayyy too much telephone tech support early in my career.
So I walk up and talk to a human.
I’ve had local places refuse to take my order over the phone.
“use our app or come in”
yeah, they don’t last long. I can imagine their last thoughts are, “why won’t anyone eat here?”
Asking what people use the internet for that can be done just as easily offline.
Too many people put math into their search engines and not their calculator.
People are doing what now? fr? There’s a whole ass app for that.
If you type it the search bar, it pulls up a calculator with the answer on it. I do it all the time.
Watch videos of OPs mom
- Store passwords.
- Gaming. Some of it at least.
- Socializing
Store passwords.
I gotta disagree. It’s much harder to do this well offline. Losing access to a password database would be detrimental, so it’s not something I recommend doing purely locally.
huh, somebody better tell this to every major fortune 500 company.
Why so?
To check whether it’s raining
I don’t have windows in my office :(
Listening music and E-Magazines. You download them and of you go. Specifically for music, I download songs on my phones using newpipe, or I listen CD’s from my collection, no need for youtube or spotify all the time.
I’ve had the thought to go back to downloaded files but discovering new artists/song is just so easy with a streaming service. It’s not like I add new songs to my playlist every day, but I do it enough that I’m not listening to the same songs over an over. I don’t really have an idea on how that would keep going when switching.
I still listen only though, but not so long as I used before,. There also songs that I don’t think even listen to them, I just download them and listen after.
Porn
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Writing documents
I am also guilty of this since i really like google docs
Think.
