more whining

muse/blog/b_offline.md

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+title: The slow death of offline content
+date: 2025-03-21 18:59:06 -5000
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+When was the last time you were "offline"? Probably some kind of power outage, or travel (airplane or wilderness) that cut you off from the outside world. You don't realize how much requires constant internet access until you lose it, too. Social media, videos, etc. But in reality, with just a tiny bit of planning, companies could easily make their services accessible without a constant internet connection. Not everything would have the same impact, obviously, social medias would be slowed down immensly, but it could easily be done. Because that's how the internet used to work. Even forums and the like offered methods of offline reading: Mbox files, which stored all the new messages, and generated files for the replies that you wrote that you pushed back to the server. Websites also /already download themself for local viewing/, just behind the scenes, and purposefully cleared after a few minutes at most, through the cache. With increasing storage sizes, you could very easily periodically download the newest posts from followed accounts, youtube videos, and whatever else, and have plenty of storage left over. We all know why it won't happen, though, and its the same reason for everything bad in the world: money. Why let users do something we're already doing, do for free? We could charge them for the PRIVLEGE of downloading videos, on a subscription service, only through our app, with no way to export it. And regularly attack well developed projects to get around our capitalist ventures, blaming consumers, etc. I wish there was more push to not always be online, and I know its ironic coming from me, but still.

muse/blog/index.md

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 <h2>i will clean this up someday</h2>
 
 <a href="b_justenough">Just enough, but nothing more</a><br>
+<a href="b_offline">The slow death of offline content</a><br>