[[Most Modern Devices Depend on the Cloud]]. What used to be the only way to utilize applications, wherein the software was installed on and running in the device you had physically in your presence, has become a fairly niche thing to do. Now we use Google Docs for everything. Software as a service. All of our devices have been relegated to overpowered thin-clients whose only *real* use is to host a browser so you can go online. Google's Chromebooks were originally *literally* this. Even Microsoft Word has moved to the cloud. Nowadays, software that's intended to be use locally has been relegated to a few particular use cases, unless you're doing something *particular*[^1], you're probably using the internet. I appreciate things that don't. See [[Cool Offline Technology]] **** # More ## Source - self [^1]: producing content is still mostly local