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Re: Disconnect. Offline only

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Post by baxtr »

mck- wrote: post #85

Beauty. Almost a piece of art. I was on a plane yesterday (literally on airplane mode) and I finished a book I've been working on for a month, and prepped/wrote half of a presentation. Quite often I produce much of my writing on a plane. I find myself very productive on a plane. Especially on cheap flights that don't have in-flight entertainment. Literally no distractions for a preset amount of time. You're not only…

Agree 100%. Problem is though that many airline are starting to offer WiFi connectivity. I just hope that they've built shitty systems that won't work most of the time... :)

Re: Disconnect. Offline only

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Post by tzakrajs »

baxtr wrote: post #91
mck- wrote: post #85

Beauty. Almost a piece of art. I was on a plane yesterday (literally on airplane mode) and I finished a book I've been working on for a month, and prepped/wrote half of a presentation. Quite often I produce much of my writing on a plane. I find myself very productive on a plane. Especially on cheap flights that don't have in-flight entertainment. Literally no distractions for a preset amount of time. You're not only…

Agree 100%. Problem is though that many airline are starting to offer WiFi connectivity. I just hope that they've built shitty systems that won't work most of the time... :)

Starting? Like ten years ago they started and now it's in nearly every plane.

Re: Disconnect. Offline only

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Post by schoen »

patatino wrote: post #2

Well done, I had the urge to google the second most commonly spoken language while reading the article. I turned my phone in some kind of a "dumb phone": - Deleted all games, news apps, basically all the apps I don't regulary need - Turned off email. It's still configured, I turn it on if I need to read an email - No push notifications at all Next step: Turn off mobile data for browser and only activate it if I need…

> Well done, I had the urge to google the second most commonly spoken language while reading the article.

The article claims it's Spanish, which is so when counting native speakers, but not right when counting total speakers (where it's English). In both cases Mandarin is in first place.

Re: Disconnect. Offline only

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Post by chrisbolin »

gervase wrote: post #73

> your ability to Google something In my opinion, this actually is something that makes me valuable. It doesn't matter how well you can synthesize information if you can't find it in the first place. Having the ability to take a problem, figure out what you don't know, reprocess those parts into a format that Googles™ well, filter out the noise from the results, and only then synthesize the information gathered is ac…

totally agree! maybe I was being too flippant :P

> Having the ability to take a problem, figure out what you don't know, reprocess those parts into a format that Googles™ well, filter out the noise from the results, and only then synthesize the information gathered

That's spot on.

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#95

Post by japhyr »

ptspts wrote: post #79

How is this page implemented for Chrome? It looks like it is using service workers. Is there a tutorial? EDIT: Tutorial for Chrome here: https://developers.google.com/web/fundamentals/getting-start...

I have a question after skimming that tutorial. When I knew there was some content on a web page in the past, and it was being obscured by some css/js code, I would often just view source and search for some of the content I knew was there. I'm finding this harder to do sometimes.

So if I go to this page (Disconnect. Offline only) and view source, I see a link to a js file. No matter where I go with this, I can't find the content of the article. But it's somewhere on my system, isn't it?

Is there a way to use dev tools to see this content?

Re: Disconnect. Offline only

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Post by 0xffff2 »

hatsunearu wrote: post #78
binaryapparatus wrote: post #13

Doesn't work on FreeBSD/firefox? First I put interface down, so no network access, second try I physically pulled cable out. Nothing happens.

What a stupid and annoying gimmick. Author couldn't even be assed to check if it isn't horribly broken in a major browser.

Major browser and specific OS. The gimmick works fine in Firefox on Windows 10.

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Post by convolvatron »

mck- wrote: post #85

Beauty. Almost a piece of art. I was on a plane yesterday (literally on airplane mode) and I finished a book I've been working on for a month, and prepped/wrote half of a presentation. Quite often I produce much of my writing on a plane. I find myself very productive on a plane. Especially on cheap flights that don't have in-flight entertainment. Literally no distractions for a preset amount of time. You're not only…

i'm better on long train rides. more room, more comfortable. no battery worries. don't notice the person in front of you bouncing up and down in their seat.

Re: Disconnect. Offline only

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Post by eddieroger »

gordaco wrote: post #20
grecy wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Next step: "dumb" phone. Next step: no phone.

I have always been a big proponent of these, but I was literally running out of social life because people just plain refused using other means of communication. I didn't have a cell phone until the summer of 2011, and I only bought it because I was moving to another city. I've had a smartphone for less than one year (with the minimal amount of apps; basically whatsapp, telegram and very little more), and very reluct…

> A common answer to all of this is that if people refuse to contact you using other means, they are not really your friends.

Maybe, except I didn't pick my friends based on the way I want to communicate with them. I dislike Facebook as much as the next person who dislikes it, but I would never expect my friends to change their ways for me or the way I want to communicate with the world. Thinking specifically of one of my friends, we will regularly switch between Google Hangouts, iMessage and Slack, depending on the context. If he pinged me tomorrow and said he was cutting Slack from his life (heaven forbid), we'd have backups, but if not, I'd probably follow to whatever means he prefers, because the alternative - losing one of my best friends - just isn't worth it. So, yeah, I check Facebook once a week for events and general life updates, and I move on. Seems better than the alternative.

Re: Disconnect. Offline only

#100

Post by sova »

tzakrajs wrote: post #92
baxtr wrote: post #91

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Agree 100%. Problem is though that many airline are starting to offer WiFi connectivity. I just hope that they've built shitty systems that won't work most of the time... :)

Starting? Like ten years ago they started and now it's in nearly every plane.

Really depends on: country, airline, price range you are willing to part with on amenities. Typically the Wifi costs extra, and most people are just trying to A-to-B it.
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