Without reading the rest of the thread, there is one place where not having a web browser could be pretty bad...
Idk about where you guys live but where I live, the library/uni (and a few other public places) I went to required me to go to their website and accept the terms before they gave me internet access... Without a web browser, I can't do that...
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