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>>108525279 (OP)
>this is especially important for porn. I'm so sick of it and it's kind of impossible to avoid since you "need" an internet connection, and you can literally just go onto google images for porn, or an AI image gen/chatbot site, or whatever
I had all my porn downloaded and sorted properly on my computer. I also have enough books, movie and games to last until internet come up too. Since so many torrent sites (rip RABG) died over the years, I just made hoarding a habit.

>>108525279 (OP)
>he didn't hoard data while he could

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>>108525279 (OP)
>you "need" an internet connection
you sound like a cucked zoomer

>>108525370
i'm pretty sure it's literally impossible to have a life without daily internet access.

>>108525279 (OP)
>if you didn't have a internet connection, what would you do all day?
Play video games? Read books? Go outside? None of these options are coming to mind?
>could you even do it? don't you need internet for banking stuff, medical stuff, work, etc?
In the ancient times, people used to go to the bank or to the doctor's office for these sorts of things.

>>108525430
>don't you need internet for banking stuff, medical stuff, work, etc?
How does your home internet connection get used for banking? Banks are closed during the time you're at home.

>>108525475
You can still do anything that doesn't require a person.

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>>108525426
you're definitely a cucked zoomer

is there actual value to even having internet access or is it a net negative? Because yes, you probably could avoid it with stuff like

>driving to the bank
>having a GPS unit in your car
>calling to make medical appointments, asking for paper test results etc

but there's a lot of random little things like
>buying stuff--there are zero good brick&mortar stores anymore unless you live in a major metro area
>finding reviews for literally anything, from products to restaurants to doctors
>researching something you want to learn about--libraries suck now and you can't use the internet to buy a book or download a PDF so wtf?
>booking flights

and a lot of people are just online now. like there's a huge chunk of the younger generations that basically live online. they don't go out to socialize. they socialize on the internet, whether that's discord or omegle or 4chan. (not that you want to meet those people though lol)

also there are no dumbphones anymore. every single phone you can buy now is a smartphone with high speed internet capabilities and a relatively fast chip.

>>108525327
I don't know if I should be impressed or concerned for you.

> if you didn't have a internet connection

But I do have internet connection

>>108525279 (OP)
I used to have your mindset. If I could just get some setup that would block me from distractions I could be productive. I'd waste countless hours setting up some complex website/internet blocking configuration, but as soon as I wanted to watch porn or YouTube I would instantly disable it in the fastest way possible and then remember how to do that. It became reflexive muscle memory to disable my blocking config to the point where it became completely useless. The harsh reality, that I didn't want to admit, is that you do need to just use a computer without getting distracted. You don't need to white knuckle "will power" (I even found this detrimental) but you need to reframe your use of technology towards something that can be used mostly for important tasks rather than pure entertainment. You can set up simple ways to increase "friction" between yourself and your bad habits, but they cannot be the primary solution or what you rely upon. For example, I moved off Windows 11 to Mint, but I have it dual booted and kept my games, online chat programs, etc on the Windows machine only. My Mint install is for school, work, financial and medical portals, reading books, programming, and other uses of tech that are more important than video games. But, I'm on it right now posting in here and I do watch youtube on it as well. However, I'm able to not spend all day doing this anymore because, more important than the OS change, I have changed how I think about computer time and have also lost significant amounts of interest in YouTube content and this website (aka going on /tv/ all day) AAR. Based on your comment that you don't implement the self improvement content into your life, you should be able to realize that searching for a perfect porn blocking config is exactly the same: it gives the illusion of productive success but is in fact a giant crippling distraction from it.

>>108525279 (OP)
>banking stuff, medical stuff
so far, where i live, all really critical stuff like that can still be done over the phone. even a dumb phone, as long as it can also receive OTP texts. additionally, govt departments don't really care about or use your email or phone number although they record it, they only really care about and use your address since they have faith in the custody of the USPS for communications. However, if I did not have a smart phone with internet access I could not unlock the door to my apartment. This is not a very common problem but it's getting commoner. Also I'm pretty sure all cars built since 2016ish are connected to the internet even if you're not paying for any of the "connected services" so.
>>108525573
>>finding reviews for literally anything
This is by far the biggest thing for me. Without that you only have whoever the fuck is near you in the phonebook and whatever you can get by word of mouth which if you need to see some specialist or have some rare problem, medical or otherwise, you'll live your whole life never finding. It happened all the time.

>>108525652
Sorry this was too long and ur cooked ah zoomie brain aint gonna read it. Basically, "quitting the internet" is a fantasy solution that is yet another distraction to fixate on. You need to learn to deal with the possibility of distraction, with simple tech "friction points" as a small support to aid this.

unironically you could solve the internet porn problem by whitelisting the big AI chatbots since they're basically internet search oracles that are strictly SFW. anything even remotely NSFW gets blocked

>>108525692
everyone here is eternally online solely because they have nothing going on in their lives. it's a chicken and egg problem.

to get a life you need to not be on the computer all day

to get off the computer you need to have a life

>>108525279 (OP)
>if you didn't have a internet connection, what would you do all day?
play some minecraft modpack

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>>108525279 (OP)
your local public library has a lot

and for the porn learn to be a master of your domain

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wGhg-htVnJ0 [Embed]

getting rid of access is dumb since so many normal things require it now. a good blacklist/whitelist that is extremely annoying and time consuming to get rid of is probably all anybody needs right?
>>108525652
just make it so annoying that it's not worth disabling to look at porn over just using your imagination.

>>108525370
>>108525530
not a very good point to make when you post sluts from an online game
at least post a book or dvd cover or a soldering station next time

>>108525279 (OP)
>hang out with gf
>go to park
>read books
>work out
>play with cat
>offline videogames
>watch TV
>make music in FL/Guitar

>>108525740
>play some minecraft modpack
1.7.10 was 12 years ago. The magic is long gone.

>>108525327
can you share your exact playnite settings like in a screenshot unless this can personally identify you?

>>108525652
Any advice on switching that mentality? How are you even here if supposedly you stopped wasting time in this stuff?

>>108526354
>1.7.10
>not 1.2.5 or 1.4.7
grim, that being said i don't care much some are still pretty nice

>>108525606
Definitely a concern angle

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>>108525968
It can be played offline if you know how, and Raiden is not a slut!

>>108525279 (OP)
>if you didn't have a internet connection, what would you do all day?
Depends on the context, but yes.
I'd read, fuck around with animals.
Maybe even write.
I'd probably feel bored for a day or two until I realigned, but no biggie, really.

>>108526687
I didn't particularly mean to claim that 1.7.10 was any sort of peak or golden age but it was the last version where mods and modding were any good. A little bit survived until 1.12.2 but not very much. Nowadays Minecraft modding is all the same faggotry and drama you'd expect from a FOSS project, sometimes even worse. The competitive neuroticism of anyone even tangentially involved with Fabric made me mostly quit hobby programming at all. What I will say for 1.7.10 is that it has Witchery which is the most fun I've ever derived from any single mod, 1.2.5 can get a little repetitive when between IC and Red Power and Build Craft pipes to solve any problem. And the lava texture is ugly. But oh well. They're more similar than different compared to whatever the fuck it is these days. Modders back then wanted to make fun things. Now they want to cargo cult programming 101 concepts and bad Unix history just like your typical /g/tard. That magic, is gone.

>>108525279 (OP)
In the event of a massive outage that lasts hours or days, I have more media and games that work perfectly fine without an Internet connection, I'd be fine for weeks.

>>108525279 (OP)
I'm 56 years old. I was born before man set foot on the moon.

The first time I ever used the internet was my first day of grad school. Or to put it another way, I earned my BSCS before I ever used the internet.

I pity almost everyone else in this thread.

Also, about porn. Did you know that they make and sell actual magazines full of pictures of naked people?

>>108525279 (OP)
I got piles of books, terabytes of movies, shows anime, music etc, 4 musical instruments, a mycology home lab and mushrooms.
I think i could honestly last years before getting bored.

>>108525279 (OP)
>if you didn't have a internet connection, what would you do all day?
Play video games and program.
So the same thing I do right now, just with printed out documentation instead of online.

>>108525279 (OP)
I have hundreds of gigabytes of content of multiple varieties already stored. A day without the internet I wouldn't even even notice.

>>108525736
projection. You can be an avid internet user and still step out of the house.

>>108530131
but how would you fetch all those npm dependencies

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>>108526280
>>hang out with gf

>>108530157
>using javascript
ISHYGDDT

>>108525279 (OP)
>if you didn't have a internet connection, what would you do all day?
>could you even do it? don't you need internet for banking stuff, medical stuff, work, etc?
Everyone over the age of 30 knows how to download their shit and old enough to know shit on the internet doesn't last forever. Everyone old enough to know to have backups so losing internet is no biggy unless you're a stream cuck.

>i spend like 15 hours per day sitting on my computer, watching youtube
Eventually I grew out of youtube. Been browsing youtube since the early 2000's but as the years went on, maybe past 2010's I slowly stop browsing youtube because of how shit it is plus I only used it for music. How anyone can still use it regularly in this day and age is beyond me. I only use it for tutorials and how to fix shit which is on rare occasions.

>browsing 4chan
Same as above except I never left...yet(and probably won't), but somehow less shit than youtube. This site's traffic is so damn slow now, not to mention the content farming bots, shill bots, and /pol/bots and the lack of moderation.

>researching some random self-improvement thing
Nothing wrong with finding and having hobbies and interests. I like learning about cartons and animations, doesn't mean I want to get into the art and animation industry or will ever put the things I learn to good use. That's a shitty boomer trap in thinking you need to always turn your hobbies and interest into a career. You can just like things and do nothing at the same time.

>since you "need" an internet connection,
No you do not. Everything about your post is making it hard to not call you a dumb zoomer but seeing the shit your generation or younger grew up with, I can't find fault how you turned out. Just boils down you experiencing the worst of the internet and none of the good. Its this shitty social media life style that got you hooked. Cut out

>streaming
>streamers

Pick up some actual computer habits like downloading your shit for later.

>>108526361
I made lots of custom configurations. It's hard to show everything in a single screenshot.

>>108525279 (OP)
>and you can literally just go onto google images for porn
No one has ever needed to do this since the late 90's and early 2000's. This sounds more like a "YOU" problem than a internet problem. The internet is just "YOUR" outlet for a deepening problem.