I came to realise recently that modern day online does not work well for
my use case. I have been getting into sailing and quickly found that a
lot of software, social systems are utterly terrible if you have
intermittent connectivity. Plus, when roaming, you have various caps of bandwidth or required to pay some rather stupidly high rates against
data usage.

People have been strongly suggesting to me I should use software like
Discord, Telegram, Reddit app etc. But, if you've ever tried to use that software offline, you quickly discover that they barely cache any data
for offline usage. If you write messages to people, you better not turn
off your device or the drafts are gone.

Older Internet was somewhat better for this situation considering there
was a time you do dial up, then retrieve your e-mails, conference/posts,
send any queued up items and disconnect immediately after. Then go
through stuff offline.

Vertrauen supporting stuff like NNTP and having gateways to various
networks is pretty much letting me do that today, which is pretty
awesome! I'm tunneling the traffic over a compressed SSH tunnel, which
both helps reduce my traffic/speeds it up but also helps against MitM on
the more less secure networks.

Being able to download all these messages, then go offline, so while at
sea when I have time to spare to be able to go through it, read, reply
as wanted, and submit when near civilisation is great.

Re: Bizarrely, Vertrauen might be my best option for socializingintermitte
By: Ash to Main.General on Thu Sep 07 2023 12:25 am

I came to realise recently that modern day online does not work well for
my use case. I have been getting into sailing and quickly found that a
lot of software, social systems are utterly terrible if you have intermittent connectivity. Plus, when roaming, you have various caps of bandwidth or required to pay some rather stupidly high rates against
data usage.

Awesome! Glad you got the NNTP access figured out!
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digital man (rob)

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On 2023-09-06, Ash <ash@vert.synchro.net> wrote:

I came to realise recently that modern day online does not work well for
my use case. I have been getting into sailing and quickly found that a
lot of software, social systems are utterly terrible if you have intermittent connectivity. Plus, when roaming, you have various caps of bandwidth or required to pay some rather stupidly high rates against
data usage.

People have been strongly suggesting to me I should use software like Discord, Telegram, Reddit app etc. But, if you've ever tried to use that software offline, you quickly discover that they barely cache any data
for offline usage. If you write messages to people, you better not turn
off your device or the drafts are gone.

Older Internet was somewhat better for this situation considering there
was a time you do dial up, then retrieve your e-mails, conference/posts, send any queued up items and disconnect immediately after. Then go
through stuff offline.

Vertrauen supporting stuff like NNTP and having gateways to various
networks is pretty much letting me do that today, which is pretty
awesome! I'm tunneling the traffic over a compressed SSH tunnel, which
both helps reduce my traffic/speeds it up but also helps against MitM on
the more less secure networks.

Being able to download all these messages, then go offline, so while at
sea when I have time to spare to be able to go through it, read, reply
as wanted, and submit when near civilisation is great.

I mostly do the exact same, among RSS', Usenet and BBS threads.
On bandwidth, I remember that when I was data-capped at maybe 2GB speeds,
which was almost as fast as something between ISDN and DSL, (or close),
I just used Mosh (SSH alternative with a hardcore keepalive and bw
shaving feature) against a public Unix server and spawned slrn from that machine. It ran really fast and with zero lag.