The Offline Experience

I threatened to cancel my internet to try and get a better deal and my ISP called my bluff. I'm disconnecting in 29 days... Gonna have to wait 6 months before I can go crawling back. I'm so used to instant gratification via the internet it is going to be very surreal not having access anymore. What can I do to prepare? I've already downloaded a bunch of tv and films but I don't see it lasting very long if I have nothing else to do. Are there any offline programs that can replicate the constantly changing and updating online experience?

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watch TV instead

tether to your phone

Can you get dial-up? Yeah its super slow, but maybe you can use a text browser, and its only going to be for those times you -really- need to get some information online.

your post implies that your ISP is a monopoly in your area but you still threatened to leave for the competition that doesn't exist??

go read a book, op

>If you don't give me what I want, I'll go to your nonexistent competition!
get fucked idiot lmao

People in the 1950's managed.

>try and get a better deal
Why would you ever think you can get "a better deal"? Even if there was competition around.

UK here. I have 23 ISPs in my area, I constantly call them and tell them I'm leaving and they have regularly given me 50% discounts and free new set top boxes, routers, gift cards and free 6 month Netflix things.

Assuming you're in the US, public libraries will save your life. You'll have access to internet + entertainment (books/DVDs/CDs). You should also look into freedompop.com/ to use as an emergency mobile hotspot. They have a free data plan capped at 500 mb/month.

you're a fucking idiot and you need to learn your lesson and swallow your pride and beg for mercy from your benevolent provider

On 56K you can easily browse chans.

Over here in burgerland, a lot of areas have de facto monopolies due to cronyism between the local government and the ISPs. A lot of the time, your only choice is comcast, and you better like it, goy.

You're lucky if you get to choose between comcast and verizon. At least when that happens there's somewhere you can threaten to go.

You still have your phone's data plan though, right? Even if you get throttled after a couple gigs of data, it's actually quite manageable. Just can't download any large files or watch a lot of HD youtube. But if you're fine just reading articles, Jow Forums, etc, it's doable.

Also going to the library to download shit.

Just say you don't actually want to cancel? Or get a different isp, what's the problem?

Not him but being throttled is nothing on mobile. Here we don't get throttled, we get cut off and have to pay $20 if we want to get those map directions.

Autism probably.

Why wait 6 months?
Just go to another isp?
Anyways download heros of might and magic 1-6 and play them in your free time like any European peasant does.

5 and 6 are garbage though

Just get the unlimited t-mobile plan.
You'll be deprioritized after like 23 gigs, but it won't slow down unless your tower is tapped out.

Where are you and what's your ISP?
Is there no other ISP you can go to? If not, why did you threaten to cancel?

Just steal your neighbor's WiFi.

Take a piece of paper and write on it words like 'faggot', 'nigger', 'BTFO' and 'autistic shill'. Read them back to yourself over and over for a few hours each day. I don't know what the phenomenon is but it feels just like reading Jow Forums. Try it for six months and you won't know the difference.

>live in the USA of market freedom
>one ISP one telco
>56k6 for $399/month plus tip

>live in eurofagistani socialist dictatorship
>assloads of ISPs and telcos
>1000/1000mbps for $9/month

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Even opening images? I wonder what living with dial-up while maybe going to the library on ocasion to download some stuff would feel like, it sounds comfy in a weird way. Where I live there are mobile plans with unlimited minutes for pretty cheap now because nobody actually calls each other anymore other than telemarketers and literal grandmas. Combined with a free dial-up provider it might work.

USA isn't a free market though. There are currently no free markets anywhere in the world.

b-b-but muh land of freedom

Yeah that's a big fat lie. All it has going for it is free speech, that's a uniquely American concept that no one else in the world upholds.

Dial-up only works via POTS

>t-true free markets have never been tried

They have though, namely Gaelic & medieval Ireland, as well as many free European cities, all of which thrived at the time. Nowadays all you have are mixed economies. Reminder that democracy is the enemy of free trade and intellectual property is anti-capitalist.

Really? Why is that? I thought so long as you could "hear" the other end of the line it was fine?

just use aircrack-ng and yagi antenna for free internet

Read books to kill time
Go outside
Write retarded love letters
Have sex and knock someone up (or be knocked up), on purpose or by accident

Mobile phones use lossy codecs and compression for voice channels. Think it works out to somewhere around 2400 bps end to end.

this will be the salvation to your soul and you'll live a virtuous life after that. Maybe marry, have children and live out of your own work on a small cabin in the woods, by hunting and stuff

Take a 6 month break from the internet. You'll probably never have the chance to ever again. In 6 months till start using the internet again and you won't stop for the rest of your life. This is your one chance. A 6 month detox. From your bad habits. From the (((news))). From being connected.

Do something else for 6 months. They may just end up being the best 6 months of your life.

Get a directional antenna. There's bound to be at least one open access point within the vicinity. I've picked up stable wifi well over 2 miles away with mine.

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Oh, I misread, you're already gonna be wihtout it.

In that case, just get off the computer for 6 months. Do something else. Stop consuming (((media))).

>Threaten to go to non existent competition
>Get fucked

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