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.
Convenient indexed search was the only real improvement Windows made since XP and now they’ve ruined it. Windows XP is once again superior.
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.
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
Ordering a pizza
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.
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.
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.
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.
To check whether it’s raining
I don’t have windows in my office :(
To turn off and on light bulbs
But that would require getting up off my sofa and walking across the living room.
Remotes exist
Masturbating.
Masturbating would imply physical genital stimulation, something that the Internet cannot perform.
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.
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
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.
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.
I use librecalc - I would’ve used excell in a previous life, but most spreadsheets will do - and what I like about it is that I can keep a running tally of the entire calculation chain as I go. And once you learn to use the tool, it can do much, much more powerful things.
Yeah for more complex stuff I do sometimes use librecalc
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
For those things I use bc
It’s probably already installed. You can curse me later when you find what it is.
If you type it the search bar, it pulls up a calculator with the answer on it. I do it all the time.
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.
Note taking
Whacking off
Analog masturbation just hits different. Or so I’ve been told
How does one do that online?
Look up The Handy
You haven’t seen the latest chatGPT update?
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.
Watch videos of OPs mom
Text editing. People use google docs for everything. If you have no internet, fuck you gon do?
