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I actually love to get something like this as a dedicated Wikipedia device. Text only Wikipedia is 25.90 GB atm [0] so a dirt cheap 32GB microSD would be more t
by haunter 9mo ago
I actually love to get something like this as a dedicated Wikipedia device. Text only Wikipedia is 25.90 GB atm [0] so a dirt cheap 32GB microSD would be more than enough. Maybe an old ebook reader
0, https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Data_dump_torrents#English_Wikipedia https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Data_dump_torrents#English_W...
- Synaesthesia 9mo agoYou used to be able to have the entirety of Wikipedia on an iPod. Back when the entire text was 4gb. But I mean considering Wikipedia pages are so small, and Internet so cheap. Why?
- ashleyn 9mo agoInternet censorship is more of a reality and a problem than it felt at the dawn of the age of cheap wireless broadband. I can certainly see the value in local wikipedia copies if internet blocks, age gates, etc need to be contended with.
- hahahahhaah 9mo agoOne of those may be useful in say Iran RN.
- moralestapia 9mo agoThat, with a quick local LLM, damn that'd be good!
- layer8 9mo agoYou can run Kiwix [0] on a tablet with an offline copy of Wikipedia. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kiwix https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kiwix