For me it’s calculating. Too many people put math into their search engines and not their calculator.
Ordering a pizza
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 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.
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?
To check whether it’s raining
Writing documents
I am also guilty of this since i really like google docs
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
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.
If you type it the search bar, it pulls up a calculator with the answer on it. Ibdobit 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
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
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
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.
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’
