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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If you type it the search bar, it pulls up a calculator with the answer on it. I do it all the time.
To turn off and on light bulbs
I do this on my intranet with home assistant, looks like I flew just under the radar
But that would require getting up off my sofa and walking across the living room.
Asking what people use the internet for that can be done just as easily offline.
Translating and dictionary, see the app Aard 2, you download Wiktionary in your preferred language (hoping it's available) and it's all in your phone.
Porn
Searching the filesystem. There's no reason Windows Search needs to access the internet. Fucking Bing.
Convenient indexed search was the only real improvement Windows made since XP and now they've ruined it. Windows XP is once again superior.
It does what now? Why would it do that?
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.
it does what now
It's been doing it since Windows 8.
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.
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.
True story!
Reading- I am absolutely horrible at this. I'll read anything and everything online, but never make the time to read a physical book.
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.
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.
Large type books are a thing. (And a plug for the free libraries perhaps in your area. Which may also have e-books.)
Excellent points :) I do use Libby through my local library for reading e-books so it’s a great suggestion.
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.
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
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'
I hate the phone: wayyy too much telephone tech support early in my career.
So I walk up and talk to a human.
Store important telephone numbers on your phone. No need to do a google search everytime you call your doctor/dentist/mechanic/whoever.
But I might want to not use this doctor for my yearly specialty visits for the first time in over a decade!
Watch videos of OPs mom
Think.
- 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.
Whacking off
How does one do that online?
Look up The Handy
You haven't seen the latest chatGPT update?
Analog masturbation just hits different. Or so I've been told
Chat
I can't shout loud enough for people 900 miles away to hear me
Not sure about 900 miles, but you can avoid shouting by..
learning sign language and lip reading and get a telescope.
learning morse code so you can use blinking light.
learning smoke signalling.
Get a pigeon or 2.
Practice, practice, practice.
Buy a plane ticket (but buying a ticket offline the day of is suspicious)
I did