I depends on how depressed I am.

Feeling good? No internet is fine, I’ll draw, worldbuild (although it’s a bit “lonely” without chatgpt), play offline games, make Mario Maker levels, romhack, work on games, compose a song, etc.

Unmotivated as hell? I’m about ready to die if I can’t scroll annoying and depressing content.

Now no power is another story. Life is nothing without electricity.

I don’t have withdrawal symptoms without the Internet, but I certainly get bored without it since I use it a lot. So maybe 70-80% addicted. I’ve never known a world without it and here I am spending most of my free time watching videos when I’m not listening to music locally stored on my devices or on CD. That, and doing a lot of online looking when I’m not playing games, some of which are Internet/data (because mobile) required. Internet is a huge part of my mortal life right now, but at least I’m self aware enough to know I’m addicted to Hell and back.

Probably about 80% addicted. In saying that though, if there is no internet for whatever reason I’m fine. Everything is self hosted on my local network, eg Jellyfin, Mealie, Navidrome. Plus a bunch of games and an Xbox. I don’t find it hard to keep myself occupied without internet with other things too like cooking, gardening, exercise and organising.

20, I would love the world without internet back.

The older I get the more it’s obvious we were better off without.

Must be quite high for me too since every time our internet doesn’t work I realise how little things you can do on your phone and PC that don’t rely on the internet. Even for programming you constantly need to look up things.

80 before latest USA election, 40 after. Deliberately distancing myself.

I’d been trying to do this since covid, victory!

I’d cope just fine now, I lived before widespread internet or wireless services too.

Most of what I miss about the internet is already long dead.

We just came out of a 1 week long isolation due to cyclone Chido. I started weaning after five days, and I felt like a new man. I’d say 20% now. Probably 70% or so before

You can easily measure your addiction by how many tabs you have open right now.

Internet is more and more like cable TV, so actually losing interest in it. But sure, still fun for a while.

If the internet shuts down, I’ll be basically out of a job probably, so I don’t know about addiction, I’m probably have a very bad time

withdrawl symptoms

Is that when you randomly start sounding like you’re from rural Alabama?

It’s more of a habit than an addiction.

If I have pretty much literally anything else going on, I don’t tend to think about or miss the internet.

But if I don’t have anything else going on, I’ll probably reach for my phone or end up on a computer pretty quickly without even realizing it

About 85-90% I can handle a few days away from the internet if I have some podcasts saved, as well as some random wikipedia articles.

Currently I have about 100 podcast episodes and plenty of different wiki articles saved on my phone.

I also have several videos saved.

Trying to be honest with myself here. I’d say probably 80. I’d struggle hard if it went away, but breaks while rare aren’t too much of a struggle.

When I go camping I don’t miss it. But if I’m in town it’d drive me nuts.