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Re: Internet in a Box

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Post by eru »

blazerunner wrote: post #127
bcraven wrote: post #119

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don't agree with your assessment. Did you find the 'About Us' page insufficient?

I don't think the previous comment was trying to be snarky - I can see where they're coming from. Take my feedback with a grain of salt, as I am entirely not the target audience, but... "Stay Connected, Always" - weird way to put it, given it's for offline situations. At this stage it sounds like it could be a 4G or portable wifi solution? "Use our apps for offline content or the Kiwix Hotspot for reliable access." -…

The quote from the footer sounds pretty good. That should probably be front and centre.

Re: Internet in a Box

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Post by Angostura »

bcraven wrote: post #119
strofocles wrote: post #118

Earlier quoted context omitted.

May I suggest somebody out of your company reviews the website. It is not clear to me what you do, what the apps do and so on. The copy is also kind of abstract "we make the world a better place" type of copy. From your comment I understand you do good work and would be a shame for people new to your products to struggle understanding what are you doing.

I don't agree with your assessment. Did you find the 'About Us' page insufficient?

The open sentence of the ‘About Us’ page is very good. The problem is, it is on the about us page, rather than front and centre on the home page

Re: Internet in a Box

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Post by RenThraysk »

rollcat wrote: post #141
dragonw wrote: post #140

This could be helpful even for people who already have internet access. The internet is full of distractions, and we often end up seeing ads instead of actually learning something. It would be great to create personal collections of useful websites and have a powerful search tool to explore them—without relying on Google and getting sidetracked. Right now, Kiwix’s search function is quite basic and doesn’t work well…

These devices are insanely underpowered for running LMs. We've had pretty decent search long before the current hype wave. Postgres has built-in support for FTS in multiple languages[1]; if you want to get fancy you can maybe throw in a table of common synonyms. [1]: https://www.postgresql.org/docs/17/textsearch-intro.html Otherwise agreed.

ADLink make Pocket AI

https://www.adlinktech.com/en/pocket-ai-with-nvidia-rtx-a500...

Re: Internet in a Box

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Post by whywhywhywhy »

GuB-42 wrote: post #150

It is a bit of a tangent, but I noticed that the picture on the lower right features an OLPC XO laptop. These are very interesting little machines from around 2010 [1], I wonder if some of them are still around today. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_Laptop_per_Child

They never really delivered on the promise and the non-profit structuring of the org wasn’t conducive to actually delivering a product.

Re: Internet in a Box

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Post by rollcat »

RenThraysk wrote: post #156
rollcat wrote: post #141

Earlier quoted context omitted.

These devices are insanely underpowered for running LMs. We've had pretty decent search long before the current hype wave. Postgres has built-in support for FTS in multiple languages[1]; if you want to get fancy you can maybe throw in a table of common synonyms. [1]: https://www.postgresql.org/docs/17/textsearch-intro.html Otherwise agreed.

ADLink make Pocket AI https://www.adlinktech.com/en/pocket-ai-with-nvidia-rtx-a500...

Yeah that's $350 vs $35 - just to run text search?

Re: Internet in a Box

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Post by kolleykibber »

Have to mention World Possible (https://worldpossible.org/) here. They are doing amazing similar work, with rpis and Intel CAP servers.

They also have Datapost (https://datapost.site/map) which uses android phones as data carriers between the remote location and the Internet, for email, stats and updates.

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