It's so bad, really. I use two phones at once, one for gaming and the other for whatever else, and I never am without a phone in my hand ever. I'm really just trying to block out the bad things that are happening to me but it's insane too.
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I watch a lot of YouTube. But I have other hobbies, games to play, books to read, and shit that needs done.
I'll be fine.
Wtf is a hobby? All I know is doomscrolling.
/s
Accurate. It can be hard sometimes.
I’d say 99% considering I work using the internet and spend most of my time on a connected device
I'd say I'm probably around 20-30%. If the internet were to disappear tomorrow, the only thing it'd affect is my work which I'm not really concerned about. The only thing I'd probably miss is watching random stuff on YouTube.
I guess I'm not too addicted, though 99.9% of all my direct communication relies on it, so that'd be the biggest blow I'd feel. I almost never play online, so I'd be fine on that, though I'd have to rely on whatever's already installed on my computer. Maybe I have to bite the bullet and make a home media server to put all my GOG stuff there... Half of my salary just for an 8tb drive, tho 😭
I have things I could do but honestly being 100% cut off, it would be honestly difficult to go back to early 2010s for me (younger child me had not much interaction with the internet).
I would say something between 65-75%.
Maybe I would go to the library more often ;)
1000000000000% I have neurolink to keep myself connected to the mainframe of the internet ziteghist
I depends on how depressed I am.
Feeling good? No internet is fine, I'll draw, worldbuild (although it's a bit "lonely" without chatgpt), play offline games, make Mario Maker levels, romhack, work on games, compose a song, etc.
Unmotivated as hell? I'm about ready to die if I can't scroll annoying and depressing content.
Now no power is another story. Life is nothing without electricity.
Power is actually easy to fix. Get a generator, pour fossil fuels, start it. (may cost you a bit, but its technically an option)
Internet, well the ISPs are practicallt the internet, so you can't just become your own ISP.
Always wanted to make an alternate content distrobution system. Without being an ISP, your eather not allowed to encrypt it (http only for IP over radio) or the signals dont go far enough without mass adoption (wifi mesh network) It exists but Amazon and Apple etc own it and those frequencies are a warzone. Physical distrobution is mesured is days and weeks.
A laser system mounted on rooftops that beam data back and fourth through neighborhoods?
Honorable mention: Briar - Not an internet, but good for protest communication. You could relay messages via each device in the network and potentially reach across a country (hypothetically, if everyone installed it).
I don't have withdrawal symptoms without the Internet, but I certainly get bored without it since I use it a lot. So maybe 70-80% addicted. I've never known a world without it and here I am spending most of my free time watching videos when I'm not listening to music locally stored on my devices or on CD. That, and doing a lot of online looking when I'm not playing games, some of which are Internet/data (because mobile) required. Internet is a huge part of my mortal life right now, but at least I'm self aware enough to know I'm addicted to Hell and back.
Probably about 80% addicted. In saying that though, if there is no internet for whatever reason I'm fine. Everything is self hosted on my local network, eg Jellyfin, Mealie, Navidrome. Plus a bunch of games and an Xbox. I don't find it hard to keep myself occupied without internet with other things too like cooking, gardening, exercise and organising.
I'd say media like Jellyfin would count towards using the internet. It's basically Netflix but local.
My distinction would be at having to use physical media like CDs etc. and needing to visit the shops or library to get more
That's fair. It would be a mild inconvenience but I would just connect my server to the HDMI on the tv. Maybe load up some USBs with music as well.
20, I would love the world without internet back.
The older I get the more it's obvious we were better off without.
We just came out of a 1 week long isolation due to cyclone Chido. I started weaning after five days, and I felt like a new man. I'd say 20% now. Probably 70% or so before
Must be quite high for me too since every time our internet doesn't work I realise how little things you can do on your phone and PC that don't rely on the internet. Even for programming you constantly need to look up things.
I honestly can't grasp how someone would program without being able to search the reading medium with CTRL + F.
The manual way of finding stuff in a book is annoying and laborious as hell.
You can easily measure your addiction by how many tabs you have open right now.
10 of my open tabs are the same thing because I forgot I searched it already (I Googled "Amazon Teamsters strikes" in ten separate tabs "apparently")
The others are daily games, weather, and then ChatGPT which I use for fun
I have 40 tabs open...I need...them
Not really, I kinda have some obsession with not wanting clutter, so I never have more than 5 tabs open.
Do your tabs reopen when you start your browser up? Because that's a sign of addiction. Or do you start fresh with zero tabs.
Internet is more and more like cable TV, so actually losing interest in it. But sure, still fun for a while.
Trying to be honest with myself here. I’d say probably 80. I’d struggle hard if it went away, but breaks while rare aren’t too much of a struggle.
withdrawl symptoms
Is that when you randomly start sounding like you're from rural Alabama?
Wait, y'all become a raging bigot without the internet?
Nah. I'll just look like a scared kitten crying in the corner.
80 before latest USA election, 40 after. Deliberately distancing myself.
I'd been trying to do this since covid, victory!
I'd cope just fine now, I lived before widespread internet or wireless services too.
Most of what I miss about the internet is already long dead.
Idk man, might be important to know when the brownshirts are coming to your doorsteps so you can at least prepare.
Well the internet isn't gone, I stopped at 40% addiction ;)
I would literally starve to death.
About 85-90% I can handle a few days away from the internet if I have some podcasts saved, as well as some random wikipedia articles.
Currently I have about 100 podcast episodes and plenty of different wiki articles saved on my phone.
I also have several videos saved.
I'm getting less addicted to the internet the more time goes on, and I remember when using the web involved a copy of lynx browser running on a BBS hosted by my local jerky company.
As long as I still have the content of my NAS, and a way to get the treats my cats like (but I can't find locally), I'd probably be OK. I'd have to leave me house more though... I don't love the idea of that.
I'm already at the point where I wish I didn't have to have a smart phone.
Jerky company?
Yeah. The dad made beef (and other) jerky, the son ran a modem pool. They both ran under the name "Taylor County Farms."
That is wild, I miss the home grown internet
Me too
I’m definitely 100% addicted. I would probably go through some sort of mental crisis if I were shut out. But I also hate it. I want to unplug, but I’m unable.
Maybe like 90%. I don't deal well with borebom and I have literally to do at home offline, and since I'm living alone in a foreign country playing board games or whatever isn't an option. So... Yeah, good thing I wasn't born 50 years ago.
If you were born 50 years ago, you would have other tools to deal with boredom
90-95%
I do a lil typing' (I am unironically developing carpal tunnel 😅)
If the internet shuts down, I'll be basically out of a job probably, so I don't know about addiction, I'm probably have a very bad time
It's more of a habit than an addiction.
If I have pretty much literally anything else going on, I don't tend to think about or miss the internet.
But if I don't have anything else going on, I'll probably reach for my phone or end up on a computer pretty quickly without even realizing it
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