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utopiah

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  • My mindset totally changed few years ago when I started being honest with myself and with others.

    It's true, I'm in that meme... I don't know much about Windows anymore. Initially I admit I was ashamed about it because I imagined that I'd be judged for it.

    What I did though, instead of trying to be better... was to be honest about it :

    • yes, it's true, I don't know Windows or MacOS as well I know Linux... but there is a reason WHY. Explain why, namely the consequence for my freedom, and theirs, totally changed the discussion.

    One day I even told my friendly neighbors : "Look I could fix your Windows computer but... I'm a professional, and I don't know Windows so much. So I would have to look solutions up and that will take time while going against my principle, so I would have to charge you for it, and it's not cheap. Instead, if you switch to Linux I'll help you, and for free." Guess what, they not only tried but they didn't even need my help! They even, back then so few years ago, install WiFi driver via the command line on their own.

    So... yes, be in that picture, sure, just don't be ashamed about it if you believe it's for good reason. Do not be afraid of explaining others too and who knows, they might not only understand but even want to tag alone on this constant adventure for collective empowerment!

  • Probably a good idea to go see how much storage will be necessary...

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  • Weird, assuming you have Android 13 it should be usable at least as exFAT and thus can be large enough

  • Probably a good idea to go see how much storage will be necessary...

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  • Thanks, updating (~20min) accordingly.

    FWIW I have a CMF Nothing 1 and I can put a 500Go microSD in it.

  • AWS is having a bad day

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  • important enough to set up yet

    FWIW for music LMS is 1 container command including it in the location in real-only of you music directory with all your files, that's it. So... if you are used to self-hosting (e.g. already have a reverse proxy and container setup) that's maybe 1h top.

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  • yes, also recommending it

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  • Totally, if you want to read or read / sketch then a reMarkable or PineNote would be much better. They'd consume a lot more energy (relatively speaking) but it's a different use case.

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  • It can be but not to me. To me the point is to test what's actually feasible and usable. It can be Wikipedia on my HDD but it could also be SO on a microSD or a RPi ... or it could be something totally different on another piece of hardware with another piece of storage. It will depend on the context.

    So again, sure, having the data itself feels nice but in practice I never really needed it. If tomorrow my HDD would die I would shrug. If tomorrow Kiwix library wouldn't work anymore, I'd be disappointed but I could rely on .zim file elsewhere, e.g. on torrent trackers.

    IMHO the point isn't files, the point is usable knowledge.

    Edit : to be clear this isn't philosophy, you can see exactly what I mean and even HOW I do it (and even when) with the edits of my public wiki or my git repositories.

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  • Commenting inline :

     
        
-rw-r--r-- 1 fabien fabien 103G Jul  6  2024 wikipedia_en_all_maxi_2024-01.zim
# encyclopedia Wikipedia English with images and more
-rw-r--r-- 1 fabien fabien  81G Apr 22  2023 gutenberg_mul_all_2023-04.zim
# Project Gutenberg, book collection in multiple languages
-rw-r--r-- 1 fabien fabien  75G Jul  7  2024 stackoverflow.com_en_all_2023-11.zim
# StackOverflow, programming questions and answers
-rw-r--r-- 1 fabien fabien  74G Mar 10  2024 planet-240304.osm.pbf
# OpenStreetMap low resolution for the whole World
-rw-r--r-- 1 fabien fabien 3.8G Oct 18 06:55 debian-13.1.0-amd64-DVD-1.iso
# Debian base ISO
-rw-r--r-- 1 fabien fabien 2.6G May  7  2023 ifixit_en_all_2023-04.zim
# iFixit colection of guides to fix appliances
-rw-r--r-- 1 fabien fabien 1.6G May  7  2023 developer.mozilla.org_en_all_2023-02.zim
# Web development documentation
-rw-r--r-- 1 fabien fabien 931M May  7  2023 diy.stackexchange.com_en_all_2023-03.zim
# Do It Yourself Q&A
-rw-r--r-- 1 fabien fabien 808M Jun  5  2023 wikivoyage_en_all_maxi_2023-05.zim
# WikiVoyage, the version of Wikipedia for traveling
-rw-r--r-- 1 fabien fabien 296M Apr 30  2023 raspberrypi.stackexchange.com_en_all_2022-11.zim
# Raspberry Pi Q&A
-rw-r--r-- 1 fabien fabien 131M May  7  2023 rapsberry_pi_docs_2023-01.zim
# Rasspberry Pi documentation
-rw-r--r-- 1 fabien fabien 100M May  7  2023 100r-off-the-grid_en_2022-06.zim
# Off the grid documents
-rw-r--r-- 1 fabien fabien  61M May  7  2023 quantumcomputing.stackexchange.com_en_all_2022-11.zim
# Quantum computer Q&A
-rw-r--r-- 1 fabien fabien  45M May  7  2023 computergraphics.stackexchange.com_en_all_2022-11.zim
# Computer graphics Q&A
-rw-r--r-- 1 fabien fabien  37M May  7  2023 wordnet_en_all_2023-04.zim
# Graph of words in English
-rw-r--r-- 1 fabien fabien  23M Jul 17  2023 kiwix-tools_linux-armv6-3.5.0-1.tar.gz
# Kiwix to read .zim files
-rw-r--r-- 1 fabien fabien  16M Oct  6 21:32 be-stib-gtfs.zip
# public transport database in Brussels, Belgium
-rw-r--r-- 1 fabien fabien 3.8M Oct  6 21:32 be-sncb-gtfs.zip
# train transport database in Belgium
-rw-r--r-- 1 fabien fabien 2.3M May  7  2023 termux_en_all_maxi_2022-12.zim
# Termux, Linux tooling on Android, documentation in English
-rw-r--r-- 1 fabien fabien 1.9M May  7  2023 kiwix-firefox_3.8.0.xpi
# Kiwix Web Extension for the Firefox browser

  • Probably a good idea to go see how much storage will be necessary...

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  • Thanks but even though it's on a plugged HDD I don't even care for any of that data. What I mean is that none of that data is sensitive. It might be useful, potentially, but it's not unique. What I mean is that if somehow my .zim file for Wikipedia was corrupted I could download it again from https://library.kiwix.org/#lang=eng&category=wikipedia or elsewhere in ~30min (just checked).

    What I'm trying to highlight here is more the process than the actual outcome.

    TL;DR: yes, if one is actually serious about just getting and storing, they should verify periodically if the data is indeed fine. What I do want to highlight though is to first know how to do it at all. Anyway, you are right that for a proper solution on the long run one must understand how (cold) storage actually works. My heuristic is that it's like can food (which I don't use much), it might last a while, but not forever.

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  • 2W for a RPi Zero with data on a microSD

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  • FWIW :

     
        
fabien@debian2080ti:/media/fabien/slowdisk$ ls -lhS offline_prep/
total 341G
-rw-r--r-- 1 fabien fabien 103G Jul  6  2024 wikipedia_en_all_maxi_2024-01.zim
-rw-r--r-- 1 fabien fabien  81G Apr 22  2023 gutenberg_mul_all_2023-04.zim
-rw-r--r-- 1 fabien fabien  75G Jul  7  2024 stackoverflow.com_en_all_2023-11.zim
-rw-r--r-- 1 fabien fabien  74G Mar 10  2024 planet-240304.osm.pbf
-rw-r--r-- 1 fabien fabien 3.8G Oct 18 06:55 debian-13.1.0-amd64-DVD-1.iso
-rw-r--r-- 1 fabien fabien 2.6G May  7  2023 ifixit_en_all_2023-04.zim
-rw-r--r-- 1 fabien fabien 1.6G May  7  2023 developer.mozilla.org_en_all_2023-02.zim
-rw-r--r-- 1 fabien fabien 931M May  7  2023 diy.stackexchange.com_en_all_2023-03.zim
-rw-r--r-- 1 fabien fabien 808M Jun  5  2023 wikivoyage_en_all_maxi_2023-05.zim
-rw-r--r-- 1 fabien fabien 296M Apr 30  2023 raspberrypi.stackexchange.com_en_all_2022-11.zim
-rw-r--r-- 1 fabien fabien 131M May  7  2023 rapsberry_pi_docs_2023-01.zim
-rw-r--r-- 1 fabien fabien 100M May  7  2023 100r-off-the-grid_en_2022-06.zim
-rw-r--r-- 1 fabien fabien  61M May  7  2023 quantumcomputing.stackexchange.com_en_all_2022-11.zim
-rw-r--r-- 1 fabien fabien  45M May  7  2023 computergraphics.stackexchange.com_en_all_2022-11.zim
-rw-r--r-- 1 fabien fabien  37M May  7  2023 wordnet_en_all_2023-04.zim
-rw-r--r-- 1 fabien fabien  23M Jul 17  2023 kiwix-tools_linux-armv6-3.5.0-1.tar.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 fabien fabien  16M Oct  6 21:32 be-stib-gtfs.zip
-rw-r--r-- 1 fabien fabien 3.8M Oct  6 21:32 be-sncb-gtfs.zip
-rw-r--r-- 1 fabien fabien 2.3M May  7  2023 termux_en_all_maxi_2022-12.zim
-rw-r--r-- 1 fabien fabien 1.9M May  7  2023 kiwix-firefox_3.8.0.xpi

    but if you want the easier version just get Kiwix on whatever device in front of you right now (yes, even mobile phone assuming you have the space) then get whatever content you need.

    If need a bit of help I recorded TechSovereignty at home, episode 11 - Offline Wikipedia, Kiwix and checksums with a friend just 3 weeks ago.

    I also wrote randomly update https://fabien.benetou.fr/Content/Vademecum and coded https://git.benetou.fr/utopiah/offline-octopus but tbh KDE-Connect is much better now.

    The point though is having such a repository takes minutes. If you don't have the space, buy a 512Go microSD for 50EUR then put that on, stuff it in a drawer then move on. If you want to every 3 months or whenever you feel like it, updated it.

    TL;DR: takes longer to write such a meme than actually do it.

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  • OS vendor is in cahoots with hardware manufacturers

    That's pretty much the strategy since Microsoft has been established. It's not very creative, it's not even legal, so it's impressive (in a bad way) that they manage to keep on making it work.

  • Install Gentoo

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  • Eh... if the input is 128937182964213/1283971293871237129 even if I pay perfect attention I still don't have the output I expect. Did I miss something?

  • Are there actually any good mobile games?

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  • Fair enough, hence why I mentioned the BT controller but OK so might want something more compact, say if you are walking around or in the subway for 1 stop.

    That's not my situation so naively I'd suggest stuff like https://hexgl.bkcore.com/ or (and sadly I can't put my hand on it right now) those who rely on accelerometer, this way you don't even tap on your screen.

    That being said I think there are also now Web based emulators that do have controller overlay. This way you use your entire screen real estate but also use the device it as a controller. There is no haptic feedback but works relatively well, I used that for WebXR on mobile.

    Edit: it wasn't any of these but still gives the idea https://forums.libretro.com/t/rgpad-a-universal-gamepad-overlay/41134 https://github.com/ShawnHymel/phaser-plugin-virtual-gamepad/

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  • Out of curiosity why is it not on F-droid?

    I don't mind installing myself the .apk via adb but the more I learned about how positively strict the process to publish to it is (via https://github.com/Mentra-Community/MentraOS/issues/1168 ) then I also take absence from F-droid as potentially warning side a project isn't truly open or rely on proprietary parts or anti-pattern.

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  • I mean... not sure if it counts as mobile but the entire history of console gaming up to few years ago works on emulators, so that's a VAST choice. Sure you might dislike 99.99% but if there is even 0.01% you enjoy, that's hundreds of games if not more!

    Check https://search.f-droid.org/?q=emulator and consider a BT controller.

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    Is fediverse turning into reddit?

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  • Isn't the software architecture supposed to promote certain ways to interact? The medium is the message kind of thing?

  • Disney sells us imaginary heroes while supporting real world villains.

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  • Check

    Teaching with Disney edited by Julie C. Garlen and Jennifer A. Sandlin, 2016 (including but not limited to "Teaching Disney Critically in the Age of Perpetual Consumption")

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    The Mouse that Roared, Disney and the End of Innocence by Henry A. Giroux and Grace Pollock, 2010

    but the Tl;DR is that their only definition of "heroes" is whatever might sell anything and aligned with the ideology of a "founder" that arguably didn't draw the mouse itself.