Title: The Old Computer Challenge V2: done! | |
Author: Solène | |
Date: 19 July 2022 | |
Tags: life offline oldcomputerchallenge nocloud | |
Description: | |
# Introduction | |
The Old Computer Challenge V2 is over! What a week! It was even more | |
than a week, as it was from 10th to 17th july included, that was 8 | |
days. | |
# What I've learned | |
To be honest, this challenge was hard and less fun than the previous | |
one as we couldn't communicate about our experiences. It was so hard | |
to schedule my Internet needs over the days than I tried to not use it | |
at all, leaving some time when I had some unexpected need to check | |
something. | |
Nevertheless, it was still a good experience to go through, it helped | |
me realize many daily small things required Internet without me paying | |
attention anymore. Fortunately, I avoid most streaming services and my | |
multimedia content is all local. | |
I spend a lot of time every day in instant messaging software, even if | |
they work asynchronously, it often happen to have someone answering | |
within seconds and then we start to chat and time passes. This was a | |
huge time consumer of the daily limited Internet time available in the | |
challenge. | |
We have a few other people who made the challenge, reading their | |
reports was very interesting and fun. | |
# Toward the next challenge | |
Now this second challenge is over, our community is still strong and | |
regained some activity. People are already thinking about the next | |
edition and we need to find what do to next. An currently popular idea | |
would be to reduce the Internet speed to RTC (~5 kB/s) instead of | |
limiting time, but we still have some time to debate about the next | |
rules. | |
We waited one year between the first and second challenge, but this | |
doesn't mean we can't do this more often! | |
To conclude this article and challenge, I would like to give special | |
thanks to all the people who got involved or interested into the | |
challenge. |