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Every so often I transfer all of Wikipedia to my phone (using one of the Kiwix extracts, which are ~100gb). It takes forever (~1 hour). Until VERY recently (las
by beaugunderson 3y ago
Every so often I transfer all of Wikipedia to my phone (using one of the Kiwix extracts, which are ~100gb). It takes forever (~1 hour). Until VERY recently (last few months) the Finder did not even have a progress bar for iPhone file transfers.
Personally I am very excited for this transfer to happen over USB3 in the future.
- quenix 3y agoWow, that’s an interesting (and unique) use case. Out of curiosity, what client app do you use to actually view the snapshot on the iPhone?
- beaugunderson 3y agoThe app itself is also called Kiwix: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/kiwix/id997079563 https://apps.apple.com/us/app/kiwix/id997079563 The latest full snapshot (including low res images) is here and clocks in around 102gb: https://dumps.wikimedia.org/kiwix/zim/wikipedia/wikipedia_en_all_maxi_2023-08.zim https://dumps.wikimedia.org/kiwix/zim/wikipedia/wikipedia_en... I live on an RV and end up working off of solar power far from cell service, so when I run out of power for Starlink there's no internet and Kiwix is super handy for relevant reading material.