For me it’s calculating. Too many people put math into their search engines and not their calculator.

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    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.

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      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.

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        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.

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    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.

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    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

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      21 hours ago

      Masturbating would imply physical genital stimulation, something that the Internet cannot perform.

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        Wait are there really not like automated fucking machines connected to the internet?

        Like no one has tried making vr porn and integrating it with some kind of mechanism/robotic arm or something?

        If something like that hasn’t been made humanity has surprised me and also I think I have an invention or two to design and patent lol


        Edit: Looked up “internet connected vibrator” and yeah they definitely exist. Looks like some “Long Distance sex toys” are capable of being operated by/through the internet (imagine seeing a sex toy show up while scanning through local iot devices lol).

        So yes, it appears it is possible (though I’d imagine uncommon) for people to use the internet directly to masturbate.

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        If you’re gonna use that logic, then there’s nothing you can do on the internet, because you still need your physical body to interact with the device.

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      I do this on my intranet with home assistant, looks like I flew just under the radar

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        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?

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    Searching the filesystem. There’s no reason Windows Search needs to access the internet. Fucking Bing.

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      It took 5 minutes to get my father in law to open teamviewer because he kept clicking on the first result which for some reason brought him to the teamviewer website instead of opening the fucking software he had installed already.

      And you know what? I can’t blame him at all

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      Convenient indexed search was the only real improvement Windows made since XP and now they’ve ruined it. Windows XP is once again superior.

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        It’s just a search bar located in the start menu and on the task bar, that combines local search with web results. For pro users it is pretty terrible, but I wouldn’t be surprised if many regular users like it. You still have a normal local file search from within the file explorer.

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        It helps use Microsoft’s Windows monopoly to promote Bing.

        I imagine that at some point the EU antitrust people might get grouchy about that.

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      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.

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    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.

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      Search engine UI is better for it than most default calculators. I use Kubuntu and KCalc is usually pretty crap in comparison.

      Say I want to calculate 220480*(1.0523-1.0522). Now I want to 220480*(1.0524-1.0523), doing that in KCalc requires awkwardly typing out the entire thing again. Doing it in duckduckgo I just change 23 and 22 to 24 and 23.

      But I also don’t use a calculator often enough to look for a better one to install.

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        Once you go apt install qalc you never go back

        Edit: or the gui version, idk, I pretty much live on the command line so maybe I’m biased but this thing does everything I’ve ever wanted from a calculator. Also use it on my phone now, yes from the command line, because I still haven’t found a proper mobile app that can conveniently do more than multiplication

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        For those things I use bc

        It’s probably already installed. You can curse me later when you find what it is.

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    Asking what people use the internet for that can be done just as easily offline.

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    Reading- I am absolutely horrible at this. I’ll read anything and everything online, but never make the time to read a physical book.

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      What’s the problem with that? You’re still reading, it’s not like you aren’t improving yourself.

      I mean, even if you’re reading smut, it’s still good for you from a physical and mental health perspective because reading strengthens your mind, helps you empathize with others, and also reduces your stress.

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      Recently I was sitting in a bus for hours. My Steam Deck was already empty. Bravely, I decided to finally continue reading Dune. I was enjoying the experience (after the initial confusion from forgetting who everyone was). But somehow, despite being interested in what was written, my brain constantly wanted more stimulation. To grab the slate of glass that provides endless dopamine. To click buttons. To have a constant stream of simple information.

      I’m kinda scared tbh. This shit is an addiction, and I’m addicted. But most other people around me seem just as much or even more addicted. What happened to just being able to do something for an hour without feeling the need for different stimulation. We’re all poisoning or minds until we’re incapable of paying attention for more than a few seconds.

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        I also do this. But I do not necessarily think it as a bad thing.

        I do not need to finish the book in one sitting, it’s fine to wander, I usually just just went on a tangent on a relevant topic though. Reading for an hour is fine, as is a 5 minute session.

        Maybe immersing myself reading books just not that fun for me. But I can sit for hours studying music even without touching my instruments, just reading the chart and analysing the harmony and what not. I think reading like any other skill, needs training and I just haven’t give it enough time.

        I’m a late millennial, and like it or not I’m used to being able to access relevant context and information with just a click (like Wiki).

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      Reading online fanfiction is free. Sure, the quality varies, but I can quit any time I want. I just don’t want to.

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      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.

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        Large type books are a thing. (And a plug for the free libraries perhaps in your area. Which may also have e-books.)

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          Excellent points :) I do use Libby through my local library for reading e-books so it’s a great suggestion.

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    Finding books. I have no idea why I do that, when there’s a bookstore I really enjoy right across the lot from me, but i’ll literally browse book reviews for 30 mins before wandering over there and just… buying whatever looks good.

    Total waste of time, I didn’t value the opinions of the reviewers in the first place, and the process is always inconclusive.