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Letter: Going offline

Published 2 May 2012

From Ian Tindal

I have a Mac computer. It has a “turn wireless off” option, in common I assume, with other computers. If you believe humans have self control, then surely using this makes more sense for the 300,000 people who downloaded Fred Stutzman’s internet blocking app (31 March, p 27).

As for hacking a computer back to a typewriter, all you need to do is keep a plain text application then dump all other applications apart from the core operating system and printer software.

Rudgwick, West Sussex, UK

Issue no. 2863 published 5 May 2012

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