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   David Ho (davidho@mastodon.world)'s status on Monday, 29-Dec-2025 16:19:28 JST David Ho

   As someone who often conducts fieldwork in remote places, I find it really irritating that many applications now require an internet connection to function.

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     iced depresso (icedquinn@blob.cat)'s status on Monday, 29-Dec-2025 16:19:27 JST iced depresso

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     @davidho how else would the rent seeking work :blobcatderpy:
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     Jbrown, Esq (jbrownesq@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 31-Dec-2025 18:40:17 JST Jbrown, Esq

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     @davidho gimp, inkscape, etc, can handle most of those needs without the relationship with nightmare corporations and their plagiarism ingestion systems. I haven't touched an Adobe product for decades, and I advise all clients against them.

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     Jörg Seidel (lostgen@det.social)'s status on Wednesday, 31-Dec-2025 18:40:20 JST Jörg Seidel

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     @davidho
     15 years ago i migrated my entire code base from Matlab to Python for precisely this reason. I wasn't concerned by paying for Matlab, but the fact it wasn't always working was unacceptable. Anyone who does that will be deinstalled.

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     Metin Seven 🎨 (metin@graphics.social)'s status on Wednesday, 31-Dec-2025 19:03:01 JST Metin Seven 🎨

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     @davidho Have a look here for alternatives:

     https://graphics.social/deck/@metin/115411210349037441

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     Juho Mäntysalo (iju@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 31-Dec-2025 19:03:12 JST Juho Mäntysalo

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     @davidho

     Reminds when I downloaded my booking information as a pdf, knowing I wouldn't have Internet at the destination.

     Adobe refused to show it to me without Internet.

     I know use MuPDF. Free and doesn't need Internet connection.

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     ploum (ploum@mamot.fr)'s status on Wednesday, 31-Dec-2025 19:03:14 JST ploum

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     @davidho : as someone who develop a browser optimized to work offline, I was completely flabbergasted by a blog post wrote by a sysadmin working in Antarctica. He was trying to do stuff like updating every Windows machine on a very slow connection.

     There’s a whole niche of #retrocomputing #permacomputing #smallWeb #smolnet people who are doing exactly that: using and developing minimal ressources tools optimised for low spec hardware on really slow and intermittent connections.

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