For me it's ordering takeout. I never order takeout online, I always call up the place with my phone ๐คทโโ๏ธ much easier to customize an order this way too
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I hate the phone: wayyy too much telephone tech support early in my career.
So I walk up and talk to a human.
And often cheaper as they aren't getting gouged by apps. My local pizzeria happily said ' call us direct and you'll get a discount'
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Watch videos of OPs mom
Note taking
Finding books. I have no idea why I do that, when there's a bookstore I really enjoy right across the lot from me, but i'll literally browse book reviews for 30 mins before wandering over there and just... buying whatever looks good.
Total waste of time, I didn't value the opinions of the reviewers in the first place, and the process is always inconclusive.
- Store passwords.
- Gaming. Some of it at least.
- Socializing
Store passwords.
I gotta disagree. It's much harder to do this well offline. Losing access to a password database would be detrimental, so it's not something I recommend doing purely locally.
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Store important telephone numbers on your phone. No need to do a google search everytime you call your doctor/dentist/mechanic/whoever.
But I might want to not use this doctor for my yearly specialty visits for the first time in over a decade!
Think.
Searching the filesystem. There's no reason Windows Search needs to access the internet. Fucking Bing.
True story!
At least we have Everything for local search.
That's not true, all my files are stored on onedrive nowadays, which is super fast and responsive. Oh wait... it's actually slow and laggy and randomly deletes stuff from your pc and you're not even allowed to give your files perfectly normal names like .aux files in a LaTeX project.
It does what now? Why would it do that?
It helps use Microsoft's Windows monopoly to promote Bing.
I imagine that at some point the EU antitrust people might get grouchy about that.
it does what now
It's been doing it since Windows 8.
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Whacking off
Chat
I can't shout loud enough for people 900 miles away to hear me
Buy a plane ticket (but buying a ticket offline the day of is suspicious)
I did
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Reading- I am absolutely horrible at this. I'll read anything and everything online, but never make the time to read a physical book.
I do this because all too often book print is tiny whereas I can adjust font size on a digital page.
I love physical books, but accessibility is sometimes a problem.
Large type books are a thing. (And a plug for the free libraries perhaps in your area. Which may also have e-books.)
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Reading online fanfiction is free. Sure, the quality varies, but I can quit any time I want. I just don't want to.
Reading anything online is free if you're slightly motivated.
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