# Away From it All: an ode to offline first
I looked up in the sky, and saw the Milky Way overhead, underfoot, a dusty gravel road, the night sounds of the deep woods in my ears.
The location was in the Ozark mountains, nearest town was far away, and the best part: no cell service.
Couldn't get even a whiff of signal until I drove 15 minutes up the road.
It was a hunting ranch, and the mess hall had wifi and a decent connection to the Internet.
But back in our cabins: nothing.
Just porch sitting, going for walks, playing card games, or reading a book.
For me, it was the perfect time to test my offline setup, in between doing all the awesome things I just listed.
My media library, all locally stored on my Steam Deck, worked as expected. The older games I had preinstalled worked a treat as well. And of course SSB via Manyverse worked perfectly.
ShareX on my Android phone worked to share files to other devices, and Syncthing worked to keep stuff synced as well.
And though I didn't test it this time, I know Briar would have worked as well.
What this situation prompted in me, was a longing for that dream that so many have expressed: a slower and more peaceful world.
I'd love it if the Internet was not available in my home (and even my office), and I needed to walk 5 minutes to somewhere else whenever I wanted it.
I'd love all software to have some way of caching and working offline.
I'd love for mail, physical or digital, to be the only way to communicate over distance.
Techpriest Baunach
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