Whenever some tech bro who only moves from one Silicon Valley hivemind to another adds a genius feature that requires being always online (or locks offline downloads behind a paywall), I am reminded about it daily on my commute.

I live in Germany, there is no 'internet' here. There is a crude system that hasn't been overhauled since the 90s that mimics what other nations call 'internet', but it is not real, nor is it your friend. It's an old German bureaucrat who files each packet for processing with pen and paper, and he's nice, but he refuses to leave.