Does Sup Forums have any modern computers that you never access the web with?
I say "modern" to exclude retro computers that would find it difficult to connect to the web at all, so including only those computers that could, but never do.
Does Sup Forums think they're almost a waste, to have isolated computers that never interact with the wonders of the modern web?
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I want to have one eventually. Offline computing can be interesting, maybe less distracting than an online computers. I'm sure I'll write about my experiences with offline computer on Sup Forums one day.
I have a win10 laptop from around 2014 that I only use to play anime on my TV (and other things, because fuck paying for cable).
I just transfer anime over LAN from my arch laptop... pretty comfy
I use one to store my child porn so yes
We have a Pentium 4 in our basement. I have stored porn on CDs and DVDs I bought from actual computer shops where I live way back. I used to play vba emulator on it and house of the dead and Virtua cop or some old game from the age of Dave, when my parents took my laptop or ps2. It is still running with xp, no lan connected but slow as fuck and importantly no reason to use it.
I even wanted to start a website with offline computing project where people would link to and upload software that doesn't require Internet to work or download dependencies and experiment with offline programs. It's on my todo list, I'll let you know about it when I finally do it.
I tried for a time, but I've been so spoiled (and my brain so melted) by the ultra-connection of the web that I kept thirsting for stimulation from it. Thinking how I'd get all my music on it, all my videos, should I connect to see if a YouTube creator has updated, etc.
So it ended up that I'd spend hours with my "online" laptop perched awwardly on my lap while doing nothing with the "offline" computer on my desk that I was meant to be using for work.
I think I've got a few problems that need solving.
>Does Sup Forums have any modern computers that you never access the web with?
yes
I build a cheap i3 4130 with slackware just to write documents and play snes emulators
>retro computers that would find it difficult to connect to the web at all
Even all of my 8-bits are connected to the internet.
Not even kidding. Why would one think it's hard?
How do you share it with your your friends if you're always offline?
>I even wanted to start a website with offline computing project where people would link to and upload software that doesn't require Internet to work or download dependencies and experiment with offline programs. It's on my todo list, I'll let you know about it when I finally do it.
that would be great. There is nothing wrong with providing builds with dependencies included
Write documents in what?
Yeah, only my studies+work keep me from starting this project for now, but when I finally complete them, I'll make that website and announce the project here, so people can start contributing and we'll have a nice set of software that'd be useful on an always-offline PC.
Install WordPerfect 5.1 and write the next great American novel.
Dopamine is a hell of a drug.
Laptops are too heavy and netbooks don't have a full-sized keyboard. Feels bad, man.
You can watch animu on your offline computer desu.
>Sharing
Get back you commie fuck.
My first computer (as in, what I could call mine) was an ancient MS-DOS machine years after that had fallen into obsolescence. It was a friend of my dad who was getting rid of his old stuff and took it off his hands as well as an old dot matrix printer, and was given to me for my school work (this being in the awkward middle point between digital and analogue).
And I swear I've never been so productive as I was when I had that old thing, with no internet (though our main computer had internet), no (real) graphics, no nothing besides some word processor I forgot the name of.
Then I got a normal computer and it was all downhill from there.
>Laptops are too heavy
wut
based. Make sure to include higan, mgba genesis gx and snes 9x 1.55
I'd contribute to it because often I hate to download and check dependencies to get my emulators
Look at tihis capitalist pig hoarding all the CP for himself and not sharing it equally.
My Thinkpad R50e has no wireless capability. I take it on the road with me to store and record customer data.
Ok, I saved the names of these programs.
See you in the future.
Speaking of DOS. Why are so many office UIs so fucking bright these days? You would have thought rather than tell people not to look at a screen for more than however many minutes they'd just tell the designers (the same applies to a lot of websites) to stop shining pure white into people's faces.
Look at old programs and the main color is always either dark blue or black, or maybe a grey on occasion.
I use an offline laptop for writing and editing, otherwise I wouldn't get anything done.
yes 1090t based server to store data and fiddle with VMs on
i keep my home server offline most of the time. it serves as file server, media server, and manages backups and whatnot. i don't use the computer as my personal machine so it has no reason to have access to the outside world.
A computer that isn't used at least 50% for internet is basically crippled and only half a machine. It's not the 90s anymore.
I would, but I'm too addicted to the internet.
This. Writing without going offline is shit.
Sounds like a reason to go offline then, doesn't it?
I have a really old Powermac G4 not connected to the internet, but honestly have no clue what to do with it.
Any ideas? Maybe just gut it and use the case for a hackintosh?
Can it take System 9?
oh my
I really like these late-90s-early-00s cases. Not quite the grey-beige boxes of earlier, but also not quite as showy as what we have now.
>G4
No.
Put FreeBSD on it and do... something. Alternatively, there’s a tripcode generator that runs on PPC, so you could always do that and search for the perfect trip in really inefficient computing cycles.
Is this the web addiction general?
this isnt a problem that needs to be solving. you should be doing work stuff on a work computer
Preferences>UI>Dark Gray. It's not that hard.