Discussion
Knowledge That Never Goes Offline
WillAdams: Missing a chance to note (or configure for?) installation on a Raspberry Pi --- that'd make an affordable option to leave powered down, but ready to go in an EMI-shield/Faraday Cage.
tsss: I was expecting the game from my childhood and was disappointed.
aquariusDue: Yeah, that game was really ahead of its time. I still hold out hope some indie studio will attempt a spiritual successor.
JanisIO: Anyone thought about using a Steam Deck with this? Or explored the concept of a "Nomad Deck"?
c0balt: It might be an interesting idea given that the Steam Deck has reasonable amount of RAM/GPU. The main issue for a knowledge base might be the lack of a physical keyboard though.
wds: Not sure how good of an idea a Steam Deck would be for this. If you can't access Wikipedia, I imagine a replacement for its unprotected glass screen would be harder to come by if you drop it.
bpavuk: turns out I have the same setup (sans local LLMs - they are pretty useless on 2018 cards) but in Obsidian :)whatever I think might be useful later, I capture through the web clipper extension. [0][0]: https://obsidian.md/clipper
myself248: See also:https://internet-in-a-box.org/https://wrolpi.org/
cousinbryce: I’m convinced that the multitude of off-line Internet tools is a ploy to keep any one of them from gaining traction
lucasluitjes: The ones mentioned in this thread all use Kiwix for off-line wikipedia, OSM for maps, Khan for educational videos. It looks like internet-in-a-box is aimed at working well on low-powered devices, whereas nomad expects beefy hardware and includes local AI. Not sure how WROLPi differs from internet-in-a-box.Maybe it's like linux distros: all based on the same software, but optimized for different use-cases or preferences.
mohamedkoubaa: Great premise for a science fiction story
Yokohiii: I like the idea of an LLM that acts as a public knowledge base. But that doomsday framing on the site is pretty annoying.
