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Daily Life with the Offline Laptop

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Post by broabprobe »

ohithereyou wrote: post #14
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?

Mostly basic plain HTML/CSS pages for teafry.me but sometimes some python I run on a raspberry pi over ssh.

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Post by DarthGhandi »

throwaway77384 wrote: post #13
HuShifang wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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/sh…

Try https://devdocs.io/ instead. browser based and offline*

I refresh it before every long haul flight.

* Uses localstorage and sometimes can be cleared.

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Post by rchaud »

afaik69 wrote: post #15

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 h…

I have often considered doing this myself. My current browsing habits are a disjointed, site-to-site flitting mess that leaves me less informed and more annoyed.

- Open Reddit/FB/IG, browse briefly

- Switch to a news site, scan headlines, get irritated with almost-clickbait headlines

- Switch back to Reddit/FB/IG by reflex, even though I know nothing's changed.

The last time I lacked near-24/7 internet access was when living abroad in 2007. I'd go to an internet cafe daily, where once I was done with emails, IMs etc, I'd save a folder of HTML pages (mainly message board threads) to my USB drive for offline reading. It made my browsing experience much more time-efficient, as my Internet use had a clear starting point and an ending point, sort of like a newspaper.

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