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’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.
No we don’t. It keeps opening web pages that are completely irrelevant.
If you’re on Lemmy, I would wager you’re not part of the “regular users” that were referred to.
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.
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 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
I blocked bing.com on my PC (invalid hostname resolution through
hostsentry) because despite best efforts to disable any websearch functionality in Windows search, it still showed up.
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.
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.
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.
If your addiction is reading books on a device, that’s not really a problem. You’re still reading.
No it’s more just browsing social media liek Lemmy or doen specific Reddit communities that aren’t here. As a kid I used to be able to read books easily, but it’s become way harder with all this “easy” dopamine around
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.
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.
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
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
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.
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
Asking what people use the internet for that can be done just as easily offline.
Whacking off
Analog masturbation just hits different. Or so I’ve been told
Personally I prefer the full range of motion offered by analogue.
How does one do that online?
Look up The Handy
You haven’t seen the latest chatGPT update?
Watch videos of OPs mom
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.
For those things I use bc
It’s probably already installed. You can curse me later when you find what it is.
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
If you type it the search bar, it pulls up a calculator with the answer on it. I do it all the time.
To check whether it’s raining
🌧️
I don’t have windows in my office :(
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
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.
huh, somebody better tell this to every major fortune 500 company.
Why so?
