#offline apps

[emidio]

The case for native, offline capable apps

Exhibit #1 - Ever had the experience of trying to watch a movie or some tv show and it's no longe available on your streaming platform?

Exhibit #2 - How about that web app that went out of business and you lost all access and functionality. e.g. Google Reader just to point an innocent and harmless example?

Exhibit #3 - Are you ok when you try to access some service it because of reasons, it’s down?

I'm sure you either had one, two or all of these experiences happening to you.

This is just the current reality of computing in general, it's either streaming and subscription based, or the common Software as a Service modality. Either way, you have the freedom of choice, the freedom of using whatever device you want, but also the complete lack of control over what happens if for some reason, your provider ceases to exist, or, if any of the conditions of the current contract change.

There is a movement about combating this sort of thing, starting only on some intellectual fringe - AKA Geeks - that actually care about such things.

Disclosure: being a 47 old computer geek, you know where I'm coming. I was born with cassete tapes FFS. But even when the internet started to appear, it was just a way to ease the distribution of software that you ran and managed, on your own computer.

Skip a couple of decades later, yada, yada, yada, SaaS is king. You rent software, you rent music, you rent movies. There's no digital owning anymore. Anything you do is just within the bounds of a monthly subscription fee and while a lot of this makes sense from a ease of use and sometimes, even economically, it hides the truth about our lost of owning anything.

Even the phone or computer we use today is limited in what it can do, just look at iPads, you can only install whatever goes through the store, as we have all been deemed as incompetent to manage what runs on our own hardware.

You might guess where this is going to now... I'm in favor of apps, apps that we can freely install and keep to use, regardless of a company's business goes down, of if the internet has been hacked again and there's a fucking DoS on your service.

The internet was designed to be resilient to attacks and still keep going, but what you do have today is that all aspects of your life are in fact tied to specific services that rely on the internet working, and the company that owns your app paying the data center bills.

Thing is, we are now in the passenger seat.

If any of your service is not like an E-mail app,(not your Gmail), and by this I mean you have an IMAP client, you have your email with you. you can use it offline, and you can even change the servers it talks to, in case you move from provider.

See the diference? It uses the internet, but it is resilient to downtime, you own the app, you can use it whenever you want, and you're not tied to a single provider.

Thoughts? I'm going to be thinking about this in 2024.

[mega-banette]

remembered this morning that mp100 takes place in 2012 so these are the social media sites some of the characters are active on

Reigen: canonically a facebook and twitter user

Mob: he has a facebook account. he accepts any friend request from anyone he recognises. his parents are concerned that he’s friends with so many adults that they don’t know

Ritsu: tumblr user. he also has a facebook. rarely uses either but posts a lot when he is active

Teru: again probably has facebook. he’s one of the only characters with a smartphone i think so he probably has an instagram too. after his character development he has a tumblr too because that’s the social media site he associates most with commoners. is unknowingly mutuals with ritsu. occasionally he’ll post a take so bad ritsu has to break his month long hiatus to vaguepost about him. teru doesn’t realise these are about him because he assumes all his opinions are correct and will give ritsu a response about how some people are just stupid, further angering him. ritsu has never once considered blocking teru

Tome: tumblr user. runs a pretty popular blog. also has a twitter account posting similar things to people who don’t care as much

Shou: doesn’t have any online presence because his dad is a terrorist

[takemetodragonstone]

I think the worst thing about having very vague/spotty memories because I was so young when it happened is feeling like I can’t ever fully accept that it DID happen. I will always second guess myself—even though the evidence is always with me (the body keeps the score, as they say). I will probably never tell anyone who knows him about it because what if I’m wrong?? What if I’m making up these flashes of “memory”, and seeing “signs” in my present self where there are none just because I want an easy answer that would explain the way that I am???

It would be such a horrible thing to accuse someone of if it wasn’t true. Especially family. Even just thinking it feels cruel and unfair to him sometimes. And there’s no way for me to get the truth unless he were to confess it to me himself.

I fantasize about that sometimes—I like to picture him apologizing to me at some kind of reunion, scared out of his mind that I’ll tell someone about it and ruin his life. Or even unapologetic, making jokes about it. At least then I would have confirmation. At least then I would have validation for the last twenty years of my life.

Anyway if anyone else feels like this, you’re not alone.

[fuckyeahchinesefashion]

Cnetizens: Send this to a friend who doesn't reply my messages

OP: Sorry, I actually replied by teleportation

[quotidianish]

Kemuning alone that I drew on Magma

[polarmoon]

🏜️🧡 meet josie, my occult legacy challenge founder :]

gonna be more lowkey with this one, for whenever i'm burnt out on my other saves and wanna turn my brain off lol. we'll see if i stick to it!

[vultursvolans]

i wish i had a bit more energy to be excited about the new xavier memory but i am hashtag severely going through it <//3

[smalpin]

oh i should draw for this blog again. uhhahaammm uhhhh here you go eat up

okah i kind of lied there im sorry. this is actually a frame of my upcoming wee eye pee (wip) animated skit

see here's the thing let's take a peek into the life of a chronic pinposter

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sooooo i finished this and announced it!!! but its been over a week now and i still havent posted it because i cant concoct the most conveniently perfect time to throw it into the rats underground (the rats are you all the pin eaters) since bfdia isnt relevant right now. yeah thats the main problem its completely 100% bfdia central yet all of the hype is at tpot right now (note that i did not watch tpot 17 as i am still wholly absolutely overtakingly distraught over the pof242025odamb (p𝓲𝓷𝓬𝓲𝓭𝓮𝓷𝓽 of february 24th 2025 one day after my birthday)) and its not tpot its bfdia so if i posted it now it would be irrelevant and thus nobody would look at it which would make me really sad because it took over two long and hard weeks and im proud of it

anyways now i need to make that bfdia 18 bookpin (/p) skit that came to my mind when i finished watching the episode. THATS WHAT THIS IS!!! A SNEAK PEAK OF MY BOOKPIN ANGST SKIT FOLLOWING THE EVENTS OF BFDIA 18!!!!!!!!!! COOL RIGHT RIGHT!!!!!!! and then another animation before bfdia 19 comes out and then its too late. because if they finally do something about her egregious mental state in next episode (which she could really genuinely honestly use since i actually think she's hit rock bottom at this point meaning that the only place you can go now is up AND THEY ONLY HAVE FIVE EPISODES TO FIX HER ANYWAY) then it's so over for these animations i have to do everything now i dont know why it took me so long to animate the other thing euueuehrhfhfhvhchfhfgfhfh im working so hard im cooking im doing it YOULL THANK ME!!! /silly i promise you will eat so much igjm doing so well

[brandinotbroke]

i fucking loathe third party game launchers

there is zero reason why i cannot play my OFFLINE SINGLE-PLAYER GAME FROM 2009 because some company's rinkydink launcher is having issues, fuck right off

[aropride]

if this site goes down you can find me on a shared google doc and those of you who remember my deep lore will know i am not at all joking

[sunnyday102]

Please, for the LOVE OF GOD

TAG UR S3 SPOILERS TOMORROW

Some people can't watch it right away and would like to continue being online without the risk of spoilers

Pls pls pls fandom I beg

[faeoffline]

t sure is having impacts today, huh? (<- has thought so many horny thoughts today)

[gay-yosuke]

the constant and immutable presence of the phone in modern day life is going to be our downfall. im not saying that because people are too online or anything but the fact that you NEED to have a modern phone with an app to get fucking COUPONS at a store is going to drive not only my near-technologically-illiterate father to madness, but me too.

[pardonmydelays]

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[horsemeatluvr23]

ETHO HAS TIKTOK?!?!?!?