Over the last couple of years Iāve had an offline-ready setup for core systems like email. My primary use case for this was scenarios like travel or working outdoors.
More recently, Iāve been thinking about an idea thatās not fully online and not fully offline. But āthinlineā. Itās a controlled access to necessary systems while blocking the optional and distracting. I can currently trigger going offline using a script that turns off wifi but when Iām at home I would still like access to services on my local network like my network attached storage that my music is on, or other services like my network-connected heat pump and electricity monitoring tools.
Iām experimenting with this and will report back when I have something useful to share.
Update: I wrote a script that helps me manage this āthinā connection. Read about it here: