Title: The Old Computer Challenge V2: done!

	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.