How do you get DSL/coax internet when you can’t visit web pages?

Spoiler: With the good old telephone.

Ionos enabled me to do that.
But I chose not to.

Better to not associate this number to your main phone anyway. Less likelyhood to have the info stolen from you.

Fair game as in “What do I watch today” because the movie was already pre-loaded.

I would love to watch that.

Only upfront effort. Downloading is almost as much of a hassle as choosing what to play tonight.
Once it’s on the disk it’s fair game.

Remember Nokia bricks? Couldn’t call them the quietest sounding phone as well.p

The usual suspects of Gen Boomer and X that first preached to not believe anything on the internet and yet doing exactly that without an external fact check.

Personally for stuff I don’t really care, I will always say “Allegedly (…)” before stating something a website says. If the stuff is important (to me or a peer) I might look harder into it.

At least when doing something non-important like lemmy.
For essential services or a non-redundant enviromment (e.g. LDAP/DNS and homelab/small businesses) I would still assign a second permanent network with something like macvlans.

I got myself some N300 Toshiba NAS drives.

I can update Debian after 4 months and it wont implode. I could even do it without a backup.
And i’d hate to be basically required to read 20 update news for 20 other packages scouring for the one important update info that could break my setup.