I feel like a modern version of this with a small LLM and a vectorized wikipedia, maybe even TTS, would make for a very interesting offline device.
Humanity’s knowledge in a box, or as the Internet Box as the IT Crowd called it.
WikiReader
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https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.kiwix.kiwi... > Updated on Oct 22, 2021 https://github.com/kiwix/kiwix-android last commit 9 hours ago EDIT: Oh I see the F-Droid one wasn't updated in a while https://github.com/kiwix/kiwix-android/issues/3376 https://github.com/kiwix/kiwix-android/issues/3460
The play store tells me it won't run on my phone because it was made for an older version of Android.
Yeah because it's a rather old app version.
In the issue they recommend to download from their website:
https://download.kiwix.org/release/kiwix-android/
the newest one was built yesterday, this one should probably work
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#24Although not a dedicated hardware device, Kiwix makes it very easy to browse Wikipedia offline on both desktop and mobile devices: https://kiwix.org/en/applications/
I feel cool having a "doomsday" phone with offline maps, wikipedia and a few other references in kiwix, music, a few weeks worth of podcasts... and curious to know what else one should have. Now if apple could just shoot me a few kb of news/weather updates by pointing it at one of their satellites, we'd be really cooking. (Other than a solar panel and I got a cigarette lighter adapter with clips at the end so I can c…
I wonder why there's no P2P crowdsourced news and weather network. Even stuff like the Citizen app gets ignored mostly.
I think the most useful offline reference is various rope knots. Mostly because I'm not a prepper and they're one of the few old fashioned skills that doesn't seem to be any less useful now than 100 years ago. Knots aren't just still usable, they're still the common, generally preferred way.
Almost everything low tech is, for most people, something pretty cool, maybe even something we think we probably should learn, but not something that generally comes up in real life for most, like ropework seems to, at least for me.
I made a one-page reference of my top favorites but someone can probably do better: https://www.reddit.com/r/knots/comments/16zcsxi/i_made_an_a5...
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#25I feel like a modern version of this with a small LLM and a vectorized wikipedia, maybe even TTS, would make for a very interesting offline device. Humanity’s knowledge in a box, or as the Internet Box as the IT Crowd called it.
The hardware is there, with stuff like: https://www.lilygo.cc/products/t-deck
i think there might be room for another class of less-powerful, offline-first but still connectable, app-capable, long battery life devices.
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#26I feel like a modern version of this with a small LLM and a vectorized wikipedia, maybe even TTS, would make for a very interesting offline device. Humanity’s knowledge in a box, or as the Internet Box as the IT Crowd called it.
The hardware is there, with stuff like: https://www.lilygo.cc/products/t-deck i think there might be room for another class of less-powerful, offline-first but still connectable, app-capable, long battery life devices.
This is excellent, I looked for something like this a few years back to explore what a minimalistic connected computing stack could be, and the only options were dead kickstarters or hacking something from blackberries or nokia c3s with hit or miss results.
Thank you for the link, bookmarked! Might explore this again some time soon.
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The hardware is there, with stuff like: https://www.lilygo.cc/products/t-deck i think there might be room for another class of less-powerful, offline-first but still connectable, app-capable, long battery life devices.
This is excellent, I looked for something like this a few years back to explore what a minimalistic connected computing stack could be, and the only options were dead kickstarters or hacking something from blackberries or nokia c3s with hit or miss results. Thank you for the link, bookmarked! Might explore this again some time soon.
The other one I know of is the Cardputer: https://www.cnx-software.com/2023/10/14/m5stack-cardputer-a-...
And the various Gameboy clones like the Odroid Go.
I've been really wanting to do something with this kind of thing for a while... but I'm not really sure what, just that I want it to work with ESPHome somehow.