Title: The Old Computer Challenge V2: day 1
       Author: Solène
       Date: 10 July 2022
       Tags: life offline oldcomputerchallenge nocloud
       Description: Today I started to restrict myself to 60 minutes per day
       of Internet access, as part of the Old Computer Challenge second
       edition.
       
       # Introduction
       
       Today is the beginning of the 2022 Old Computer Challenge, for a week I
       am now restricted to one hour of Internet access per day.
       
 (HTM) Old Computer Challenge V2 announcement
       
       # How do I account time?
       
       For now, I turned off my smartphone Wi-Fi because it would be hard to
       account its time.
       
       My main laptop is using the very nice script from our community member
       prahou.
       
       The script design is smart, it's accounting time and displaying time
       consumed, it can be described as a machine state like this:
       
       ```trying to describe a machine state
       
          +------------+                    +----------------------------+
          | wait for   |                    | Accounting time for today  |
          | input      |  Type Enter        | Internet is enabled        |
          |            |------------------->|                            |
          | Internet   |                    | display time used          |
          | offline    |                    | today                      |
          +------------+                    +----------------------------+
                 ^                                         v
                 |                       press ctrl+C      |
                 |       (which is trapped to run a func)  |
                 +-----------------------------------------+
       ```
       
       As the way to disable / enable internet is specific to every one, the
       script has two empty fuctions: NETON and NETOFF, they enable or disable
       Internet access.  On my Linux computer I found an easy way to achieve
       this by adding a bogus default route with a metric 1, bypassing my
       default route.  Because the default route doesn't work my system can't
       reach the Internet, but it let my LAN in a working state.
       
 (HTM) My own version of prahou's script (I made some little changes)
       
       # How's life?
       
       So far, it's easy to remember I don't have Internet all the time, but
       with my Internet usage it works fine.  I use the script to "start"
       Internet, check my emails, read IRC channels and reply, and then I
       disconnect.  By using small amount of time, I can achieve most of my
       needs in less than a minute.  However, that wouldn't be practical if I
       had to download anything big, and people with a fast Internet access (=
       not me) would have an advantage.
       
       My guess about this first day being easy is that as I don't use any
       streaming service, I don't need to be connected all the time.  All my
       data are saved locally, and most of my communication needs can be done
       asynchronously.  Even publishing this blog post shouldn't consume more
       than 20 seconds.
       
       # Let's go for a week
       
       I suppose it will be easy to forget about limited Internet time, so it
       will be best for me to run the accounting script in a terminal
       (disabling Internet until I manually accept to enable it), and think a
       bit ahead if I will need more time later so I can be more conservative
       about time usage.
       
       So far, it's a great experience I enjoy a lot.  I hope other
       participant will enjoy it as much as I do.  We will start gathering and
       aggregating reports soon, so you could enjoy all the reports from our
       community.
       
       # It's not late to join
       
       Despite the challenge officially started today (10th July), it's not
       late to start it yourself.  The important is to have fun, if you want
       to try, you could just use a chronometer and see if you could hold with
       only 60 minutes a day.