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.
It does what now? Why would it do that?
it does what now
It’s been doing it since Windows 8.
I had to manually stop it from doing exactly that. Every time windows updated I had to do it again
I do not regret swapping to linux
Ordering a pizza
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.
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.
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.
Masturbating.
Masturbating would imply physical genital stimulation, something that the Internet cannot perform.
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.
true, you got me
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.
Teledildonics.
Apparently they can also help you cheat at chess.
To check whether it’s raining
I don’t have windows in my office :(
Store important telephone numbers on your phone. No need to do a google search everytime you call your doctor/dentist/mechanic/whoever.
Woah now, maybe I like googling my mom’s office line every time she doesn’t answer her cell phone! I actually never even thought of saving it
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
And often cheaper as they aren’t getting gouged by apps. My local pizzeria happily said ’ call us direct and you’ll get a discount’
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.
To turn off and on light bulbs
- 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.
Calculators. Why use the Google calculator, when there’s one pre-installed in every device you own.
Usually convenience if you’re on a computer and already have a browser open.
But even then half the time I pull my phone out to use the calculator app instead. And I don’t think I’ve ever used a browser as a calculator while on my phone.
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 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.