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Re: Daily Life with the Offline Laptop

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Post by d0mine »

andrepd wrote: post #4
james_impliu wrote: post #2

No affiliation, but I found Dash incredibly helpful for working offline: https://kapeli.com/dash . You can download the docs for most languages/frameworks AND you can download Stackoverflow by section in a way you can read and search.

Pity it's mac only

Dash docsets can be used without Mac e.g., in Emacs http://puntoblogspot.blogspot.com/2014/01/ann-helm-dash-docu...

Re: Daily Life with the Offline Laptop

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Post by throwaway77384 »

HuShifang wrote: post #6
andrepd wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Pity it's mac only

Check out Zeal, which piggybacks on Dash for Linux and Windows: https://zealdocs.org/

Funny, I've been looking for something like this, without knowing that I was really.

Unfortunately I am getting "Content rendering error An unhandled error occurred in the application. We apologize for the inconvenience!" for the HTML, CSS and JS references.

edit: That appears to be a bigger issue which has been discussed for some time by a few people (https://github.com/zealdocs/zeal/issues/1155).

  find ~/.local/share/Zeal/Zeal/docsets -name "react-main.*.js" -exec rm -rf {} \;
here's a fix that worked for me on Manjaro (Linux) for the time being.

Re: Daily Life with the Offline Laptop

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Post by ohithereyou »

broabprobe wrote: post #9

much respect for keeping a PowerBook in use! I keep my 12" PowerBook around for similar uses: Music (iTunes), email (Mail), writing (TextEdit), development (also TextEdit haha). Amazingly TenFourFox (Firefox fork) is still being maintained! It's impossibly slow but that can also be an advantage. I'm still thinking about that post recently where someone said they add a few seconds to a page load. Well, an easy way to…

What sort of development do you do on the PowerBook?

Re: Daily Life with the Offline Laptop

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Post by afaik69 »

A month ago i canceled my broadband internet at home.

I survive now with 7GB LTE data and public WiFi.

That was the only solution for me to get out of the habit of mindlessly browsing the web, watching YouTube etc...

So i have 230MB Data per Day, that's enough for me to get work done and some casual browsing.

If i wanna watch a YouTube video i have to get out out of the house, walk to the next WiFi, download it, go home and watch it.

Re: Daily Life with the Offline Laptop

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Post by inakarmacoma »

cableshaft wrote: post #5

There was a time when I had a computer that didn't have a working network card. I would take it to the library with me, and I would be incredibly productive during it. If I got stuck on something, I'd work on something else instead, and look it up when I got home. I also tried doing what I called an "Internet Diet", of self-imposing working offline, and as long as I stuck with it I got a good amount done then also. I…

...or EVEN read a BOOK.

Aspiring authors offer up a collective sigh.

But there are movies, still.

By the way, has anyone seen the 37th remake of Superman? Sorry, I meant 36th.

Hey, anyone want to invest in a new movie idea. It's gold. It's only been done 36 times before. Don't delay. You won't believe what happens at the end. Lois Lane loses 30lbs with 1 crazy dieting trick that big-Doctors don't want you to know about.

Time is running out. Don't wait. There's no time to read that book, you're missing out.

Re: Daily Life with the Offline Laptop

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Post by nonamenoslogan »

broabprobe wrote: post #9

much respect for keeping a PowerBook in use! I keep my 12" PowerBook around for similar uses: Music (iTunes), email (Mail), writing (TextEdit), development (also TextEdit haha). Amazingly TenFourFox (Firefox fork) is still being maintained! It's impossibly slow but that can also be an advantage. I'm still thinking about that post recently where someone said they add a few seconds to a page load. Well, an easy way to…

I'm also in the PowerPC keep-alive program. Mine's an iBook G4 and I use it for writing (Pages, nano, TextWrangler), coding (DreamweaverMX, TextWrangler) and VNC to my other computers if I need them. I tend to play a lot of ancient games on it too if I'm not doing any thing productive, SimTower I'm looking at you. TenFourFox is a beautiful thing, though SSL pages are a bit slow so I'm pickier about what I read.

Re: Daily Life with the Offline Laptop

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Post by cableshaft »

inakarmacoma wrote: post #17
cableshaft wrote: post #5

There was a time when I had a computer that didn't have a working network card. I would take it to the library with me, and I would be incredibly productive during it. If I got stuck on something, I'd work on something else instead, and look it up when I got home. I also tried doing what I called an "Internet Diet", of self-imposing working offline, and as long as I stuck with it I got a good amount done then also. I…

...or EVEN read a BOOK. Aspiring authors offer up a collective sigh. But there are movies, still. By the way, has anyone seen the 37th remake of Superman? Sorry, I meant 36th. Hey, anyone want to invest in a new movie idea. It's gold. It's only been done 36 times before. Don't delay. You won't believe what happens at the end. Lois Lane loses 30lbs with 1 crazy dieting trick that big-Doctors don't want you to know abo…

I do read books. Nowhere near as many as my wife, who's read 16 books already so far this year, but I do read books.

I've finished three books so far this year. The 3rd and 4th books in The Expanse series, and Stories of Your Life and Others by Ted Chiang (which includes the short story that the Arrival movie was based on). I'm about 4 chapters into Don Quixote also, which I decided I'd finally read this year.

And that's with the following distractions:

* Letting myself enjoy and complete a 25 hour visual novel video game (AI: The Somnium Files, for anyone curious)

* 15 hours of training to be an ESL tutor

* Preparing lesson plans and meeting with my ESL Learner on a weekly basis

* Taking a 6 week travel writing course at my local library

* Polishing up 4 different board game prototypes, writing rules, filming videos and entering them into two different game design competitions

* Coding two different video games I'm hoping to release sometime this year

* Writing a first draft of a short story for an annual short story anthology that my local writing group does every year

* Hosting a monthly playtest night for local game designers

* Having a wife and two dogs that demand time and attention every day

* Working at a company that has 1-2 network outages each week (at least the past month and a half) that requires me to sit for hours after work coordinating with network and server teams to fix the issue

* Getting mentally prepared and brushing up technical knowledge for the inevitable interview gauntlet I'll need to undergo to find a new job.

I'm sure there's things I'm leaving out. This is all since January 1st this year, btw.

I also write novels off and on, I just don't have any finished yet. Lots of first drafts from participating in Nanowrimo for 10 years. It's a lot harder for me to revise and finish them, though, especially with juggling all my other interests (game design and development usually takes priority). Planning to attend a writer's retreat in two weeks to try to get one in a state that I don't mind other people reading it and giving feedback.

Also despite all this, I waste a ton of time on the internet and really need to nip it in the bud if I want to keep juggling so many balls in the air. And I do still see most Marvel movies. Not DC movies though, except Shazam!

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