From 0a496933f94b2929460693028effc0e2ddc7a973 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Flancian <0@flancia.org> Date: Sun, 22 Oct 2023 17:45:12 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] autopushed --- journal/2023-10-22.md | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/journal/2023-10-22.md b/journal/2023-10-22.md index 04e124d0d..33869f1e5 100644 --- a/journal/2023-10-22.md +++ b/journal/2023-10-22.md @@ -6,4 +6,4 @@ As I write this, I'm roughly above [[Baku]] about to cross the [[Caspian Sea]]. I don't have an internet connection so I'm jotting down these local notes which will be synced to the Agora later. -I guess much has already been said about the relatively rareness of being offline nowadays; I am old enough to remember a time before being online at all was possible; then a time in which being online was rare; then the transition to always-on home and then mobile internet. I welcomed each increment of connectivity, and I still love how far we've gotten in this respect; but I can also appreciate the 'forced' focus that being fully offline for a bit can bring, if nothing else because that same mode is always available -- behind the impulse to catch up with messages, or check feeds, or read about Baku and the Caspian Sea on Wikipedia -- which is surely what I would be doing right now instead of writing these words was I not truly offline. +I guess much has already been said about the relatively rareness of being offline nowadays; I am old enough to remember a time before being online at all was possible; then a time in which being online was rare; then the transition to always-on home internet and then mobile internet. I welcomed each increment of extra connectivity, and I still love how far we've gotten in this respect; but I can also appreciate the focus that being fully offline for a bit can bring. If nothing else it throws into contrast the fact that the same focus should always available -- behind the impulse to catch up with messages, or check feeds, or read about Baku and the Caspian Sea on Wikipedia (which is surely what I would be doing right now instead of writing these words were I not truly offline.)