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0 seconds
- peace and quiet
- full history of all my projects (git repos)
- my blog
0.5 seconds
- chatting on IRC
- searching through all email received since 1994
- music
- cached web pages
5 seconds
- ssh to a server
- search the web
- lwn, hacker news, reddit, metafilter, and other web aggregators
10 seconds
- resuming laptop from sleep and waiting for network-manager
- view an unnecessarily pastebinned scrap of text
- access local Debian mirror
- looking up a typical bug report
20 seconds
- click on a typical link from a web aggregator
- an hour of video pulled from a USB drive with git-annex
2 minutes
- downloading new email
- commute to work
- an increasing number of websites that force https (average of 3 reloads needed due to timeouts)
5 minutes
- viewing a single file, bug report, or merge request on github
- cloning the full content of a typical not too large git repo
- retriving data from archival drives via git-annex
- going offline and making a phone call
apt-get update(thanks aj, for the pdiffs)- viewing a single a twitter page (megabytes of crud and
#!redirections)
10 minutes
- entering a state of flow while programming
- boingboing.net (with all the pretty pictures)
- my mailbox (after a nice walk down a long driveway)
22 minutes
- milk and eggs
- a swim in the river
30 minutes
- broadband internet access
- someone else who knows what linux is
32 minutes
- an hour of video pulled from my server with git-annex (includes travel time to broadband access point)
70 minutes
- a halfway decent but slightly overpriced grocery store
- a produce stand
- a coffee shop
180 minutes
- family
- a bakery with real bread
300 minutes
- downloading a typical podcast
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