I believe that was the joke

I wonder why it wants network access

Not to be a purist, but this doesn't read very much like a linux meme

Chips in the UK are called crisps and fries are called chips.

A modern use case: I like RSS in my terminal so I use newsboat but hate it opening firefox and swapping me out of the terminal when I want to read more. So I have it use lynx instead.

I also have a computer without a DE that can browse the web (lynx), look at pictures (JP2a), watch movies (I don't recall the name of the program but it converts the video to ASCII), edit word docs (take your pick), and send email (mail).

Sober punks

Invidious, newpipe, and freetube are really just alternative front ends for youtube.

Ah fair, I am not from the UK but a rugby mate of mine passed some UK culture on and tried to teach us how to speak "the Queen's English"

https://redlib.catsarch.com/r/chaoticgood/comments/1kiznxn/it_would_be_a_shame_to_make_this_go_viral_ucmj/

You can always link it using a redlib instance. https://github.com/redlib-org/redlib

I do a lot of networking and I like being able to remember IPs and subnetting is a lot easier. I haven't really realized any issues with latency. Haven't really had to guess ports either as NAT handles that. I think IPv6 is a good idea and works great for computers, but as I human I prefer IPv4.

IPv4 with NAT > IPv6