Stormy wrote to All <=-
Hello,
I have been thinking abot using a Dial-Up ISP for a few days and I
would like to give it a try for a month or two.
The primary purpose behind this idea is that if I force myself to use a Dial-Up connection, I will be forced to stay off big sites like youtube and the like. My hope being that I will eventually break this addiction
to watching Youtube videos that I have.
If all I do is go to simple websites, use IRC channels, or browse the gopherspace, then would it be feasable to use a dial-up connection as a main home internet solution.
Anything else could be done at a coffee shop or internet cafe.
I would love to hear all of your thoughts on this.
Ian Sutter - A Slackware Linux user
Hello,
I have been thinking abot using a Dial-Up ISP for a few days and I would like to give it a try for a month or two.
On 09-18-20 17:38, Stormy wrote to All <=-
I have been thinking abot using a Dial-Up ISP for a few days and I
would like to give it a try for a month or two.
If all I do is go to simple websites, use IRC channels, or browse the gopherspace, then would it be feasable to use a dial-up connection as a main home internet solution.
Anything else could be done at a coffee shop or internet cafe.
MRO wrote to Stormy <=-
Re: Is using a dial-up ISP feasable in 2020?
By: Stormy to All on Fri Sep 18 2020 05:38 pm
Hello,
I have been thinking abot using a Dial-Up ISP for a few days and I would like to give it a try for a month or two.
that sounds stupid.
how bad is your 'addiction'? is it affecting your life?
is it really a problem for you?
how bad is your 'addiction'? is it affecting your life?
is it really a problem for you?
Add these lines to your /etc/hosts, or whatever Windows uses for hosts 0.0.0.0 youtube.com
0.0.0.0 www.facebook.com
that sounds stupid.
how bad is your 'addiction'? is it affecting your life?
is it really a problem for you?
Stormy wrote to All <=-
Anything else could be done at a coffee shop or internet cafe.
I would love to hear all of your thoughts on this.
Ian Sutter - A Slackware Linux user
Re: Is using a dial-up ISP feasable in 2020?
By: MRO to Stormy on Fri Sep 18 2020 11:19 pm
that sounds stupid.
no offense intended, but I definitely don't claim to be the master of logic or reason, rather I am the reverse due to some rather fun mental conditions.
logic and reason don't really occur in my brain very often.
how bad is your 'addiction'? is it affecting your life?
is it really a problem for you?
my issue here is that I default to watching youtube videos when I should be doing other things. This has caused me to turn college assignments in late among other things. I fail to carry out the majority of my responsibilities and this issue (along with some othe major issues) seems to have turned my life into a bit of a mess (although I think it has always been a mess in one way or another).
I would love to hear any ideas that you might have that could help me solve or improve this, however, please bear in mind that I just don't have the mental energy to implement most of the things that people would suggest. My brain has been extremly tired for the past few years, I barely have the energy to think, and I certainly don't have the energy to think on a high-functioning level like I used to.
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Hello,
I have been thinking abot using a Dial-Up ISP for a few days and I
would like to give it a try for a month or two.
The primary purpose behind this idea is that if I force myself to use a Dial-Up connection, I will be forced to stay off big sites like youtube and the like. My hope being that I will eventually break this addiction
to watching Youtube videos that I have.
If all I do is go to simple websites, use IRC channels, or browse the gopherspace, then would it be feasable to use a dial-up connection as a main home internet solution.
Anything else could be done at a coffee shop or internet cafe.
I would love to hear all of your thoughts on this.
Ian Sutter - A Slackware Linux user
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Re: Is using a dial-up ISP feasable in 2020?
By: Stormy to All on Fri Sep 18 2020 05:38 pm
Totally is usable, for at least more straightforward stuff like you describe. Juno and NetZero offer free 10 hour a month plans which could prove useful for some basic browsing where it counts, and to have that dial-up experience. _____
Kurisu Yamato - www.xadara.com
Stormy wrote to MRO <=-
Re: Is using a dial-up ISP feasable in 2020?
By: MRO to Stormy on Fri Sep 18 2020 11:19 pm
that sounds stupid.
no offense intended, but I definitely don't claim to be the master of logic or reason, rather I am the reverse due to some rather fun mental conditions.
logic and reason don't really occur in my brain very often.
how bad is your 'addiction'? is it affecting your life?
is it really a problem for you?
my issue here is that I default to watching youtube videos when I
should be doing other things. This has caused me to turn college assignments in late among other things. I fail to carry out the
majority of my responsibilities and this issue (along with some othe
major issues) seems to have turned my life into a bit of a mess
(although I think it has always been a mess in one way or another).
basically, I have no life or soul to speak of.
I love learning things. I have wanted to learn about things such as programming and the administration of UNIX-based or UNIX-like systems
for quite a while (and have learned a fair bit, however, there is still quite a lot that I am lacking in terms of knowledge and experience). Unfortuntely, Whenever I sit down at my computer with the intention of doing something productive, I default to openning a web browser and watching news videos on youtube.
is my idea of using dial-up internet a stupid idea, yeah it most definitely could be, however, at the very least, it would be a fun experiment. If it solves certain problems, then great; if it doesn't,
then I need to move on to the next idea.
I would love to hear any ideas that you might have that could help me solve or improve this, however, please bear in mind that I just don't
have the mental energy to implement most of the things that people
would suggest. My brain has been extremly tired for the past few years,
I barely have the energy to think, and I certainly don't have the
energy to think on a high-functioning level like I used to.
Anyways, I hope I haven't been rude in this post. I hope you have a
good rest of your day.
Sadly, very few websites are usable on dialup these days - the vast majori contain heaps of crud. But IRC, definitely, same for Gopher. Those two s continue to work well on dialup.
You will also want to make sure you have nothing that "phones home" and su your bandwidth.
On 09-20-20 01:24, Static wrote to Vk3jed <=-
The times I've tested dialup the WWW situation was greatly improved by masquerading the browser as a mobile client, but even then quite a few
sites were just too heavy to use. It also really shows you which sites
are very inefficient, where the mobile view is quite simple and should
be passable on dialup but it still takes a year to load because it's reaching out to a dozen other sites for js code and content and downloading megabytes of garbage and then just not showing it to you.
You will also want to make sure you have nothing that "phones home" and su your bandwidth.
Pretty much impossible to prevent on Windows or MacOS these days. I've watched the link with wireshark and even when you tell Win10 you're on
a metered connection so it shouldn't waste bandwidth, it still does it
far too much.
On 09-19-20 10:12, Stormy wrote to MRO <=-
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Re: Is using a dial-up ISP feasable in 2020?
By: MRO to Stormy on Fri Sep 18 2020 11:19 pm
that sounds stupid.
no offense intended, but I definitely don't claim to be the master of logic or reason, rather I am the reverse due to some rather fun mental conditions.
my issue here is that I default to watching youtube videos when I
should be doing other things. This has caused me to turn college assignments in late among other things. I fail to carry out the
majority of my responsibilities and this issue (along with some othe
major issues) seems to have turned my life into a bit of a mess
(although I think it has always been a mess in one way or another).
is my idea of using dial-up internet a stupid idea, yeah it most definitely could be, however, at the very least, it would be a fun experiment. If it solves certain problems, then great; if it doesn't,
then I need to move on to the next idea.
I would love to hear any ideas that you might have that could help me solve or improve this, however, please bear in mind that I just don't
have the mental energy to implement most of the things that people
would suggest. My brain has been extremly tired for the past few years,
I barely have the energy to think, and I certainly don't have the
energy to think on a high-functioning level like I used to.
Anyways, I hope I haven't been rude in this post. I hope you have a
good rest of your day.
On 09-20-20 11:02, Dennisk wrote to Stormy <=-
It sounds like a self-discipline issue, and it won't be fixed with dial up. You'll find something else to distract you. One thing you could
The other thing I would recommend, is physical activity. Go for a
walk, or a jog. Serious. I used to do a LOT of walking before I had kids, and it helped a lot. Sometimes for 3 hours at a time. I NEVER
came back from a walk MORE mentally tired than when I started. You can download the audio of your YouTube news and listen to it while you
walk, if need be. Not hard to do. Kill two birds with one stone.
Really, I think you should be focusing on discipline and schedules.
Set aside some time for videos, and choose which ones you want to
watch, if you need to watch them. Walking and listening would be
better. Don't be scared to be selective with your new, listen to only
the ones you NEED. It's very easy to spend all day watching news, I've seen people fall into that trip. Fear of missing out maybe? Budget
some time, then move on. Develop a new habit which works better for
you.
If you want to learn Unix, you can do that largely through a CLI, so
maybe when you are doing "unix" stuff, you switch to CLI only. Either way, make it a habit, a ritual. Something like "from 6PM to 7PM I
catch up on news while walking", from 7 to 730PM I get the information
I want to use to work on Unix, 7:30PM to 9PM I boot my CLI Linux distro and work on that, and so on.
Sadly, very few websites are usable on dialup these days - the vast majority >contain heaps of crud.
On 09-20-20 09:21, Dumas Walker wrote to VK3JED <=-
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Sadly, very few websites are usable on dialup these days - the vast majority
contain heaps of crud.
Not only on dial-up, but some of them are not real usable if you are
not on the same local network as where they are hosted and/or are not using the same web browser the developer designed them for.
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Re: Is using a dial-up ISP feasable in 2020?
By: MRO to Stormy on Fri Sep 18 2020 11:19 pm
On 09-24-20 20:05, malkonix wrote to Vk3jed <=-
Hello!
I follow this youtuber that is experimenting with analog phone line simulator with a arduino, has made a lot of progress
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nwtq6AJtfTI
Hope it help!
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