Alright, let's just start today.
I have a short little script that turns dhcpcd on or off, and saves the
current timestamp in a file. Since I finally took the time to make a
case for my Arduino and a 7 segment display (only took me about 8 years
to do that ...), I can now use that to show the cumulated "online time"
of today:
gopher://uninformativ.de/I/phlog/2022/2022-07/2022-07-31--display.jpg
Another cute little toy: When the script starts dhcpcd, it plays the
classic modem dialup sound in the background.
I immediately feel the impulse to go online just for a brief moment to
check a wikipedia article or something. I could do that, but it would
have been costly back in the day: We had to pay *per connection* as well
as per time. So the mere fact that you're going online already cost you,
like, 1 EUR or something (I really don't remember the prices). And then,
on top of that, you had to pay per minute.
I could optimize for this model, like having a queue of terms to look up
in wikipedia and then do that as soon as I go online. Would that be any
good, though? By the time I finally went online, I would have long
forgotten about these topics. The beauty of services like wikipedia
today is that you can look up things *right now*.
As for "social media", well, I'm only active on twtxt and that's already
very "async". I don't have to change anything there.
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It's 15:30 now and I've used 6 minutes of online time. That's much less
than expected. Gonna indulge in a bit of YouTube now.
