For me it’s calculating. Too many people put math into their search engines and not their calculator.
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.
I self host a lot of software. something like 20 different apps.
the amount of self hosted open source software that uses CDNs for libraries is too damn high.
it became such a problem for me that I created my own locally managed CDN and use rewrite rules on any of my apps to replace remote packages with local ones.
I’ve even cloned entire repos, replaced the references with local ones.
IMO, if your software is “self hosted” it should be a fully functioning service that will run without the internet. your app is broke shit if it doesn’t work when the internet goes down and is meaningless to self host at that point.
my point, any app you use online can, in theory, be done offline. you just need the skill, knowledge, and drive to make it that way.
To check whether it’s raining
Transferring files between their devices, apple dummies think the only way to transfer files is to upload it first to their cloud drive and then download it on the other device from it, because apple won’t let them just connect their dumb iphones to a computer using a cable and just copy paste stuff to it like any other normal phone, heck they don’t even know about local network file transfer apps like Send Anywhere or Resilio Sync, all they know is airplay which only works between apple devices
Text editing. People use google docs for everything. If you have no internet, fuck you gon do?
Writing documents
I am also guilty of this since i really like google docs
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
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.
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.
Asking what people use the internet for that can be done just as easily offline.
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.
Note taking
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’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?”
I hate the phone: wayyy too much telephone tech support early in my career.
So I walk up and talk to a human.
Porn
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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?
