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in reply to ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆

They lost me at AI...

But yea, having the Wikipedia and offline maps stored away (e.g. for offline use on an android phone) is a great thing.
I use a thumb drive instead of a interconnected thingy with "command centre". Feeling old now.

in reply to Señor Mono

Actually, having a local agent on the system with a bunch of data on it that helps you find things would be great for most people. People really need to get over the whole knee jerk reaction to all things AI related. It's getting really tiresome.
in reply to ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆

People putting me in drawers is also getting tiresome.

I’m using coding agents as a tool for software development and like to summarize complex matters. That doesn’t mean, that I like having AI “features” cramped into everything.

And also there are the valid ethical questions AI-apologists and enthusiasts tend to dream away.

Edit: especially if the stack is advertised for survival, mind this. The more moving parts, the higher the chances for a critical failure.

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in reply to Señor Mono

You really don't understand how having an AI agent look through your wiki and pull up relevant links quickly is useful? Also, what higher chance of failure are you talking about. It's not like it's an integral part of the system. The whole Ollama component is entirely opt in. At least try to make some sense here.
in reply to ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆

In that particular case no.

My setup is searchable ZIM files on a pen drive. I open the file with a viewer on any PC or f-droid capable android. No servers involved, no handoff of data involved. More like a book as last resort.

Maps are openstreet maps downloads in osmand.

From my perspective there is no need to over engineer a basic tool.

For example, take a look at those TEOTWAWKI preppers. They’re hoarding books, ebooks, literature and knowledge in the most robust and reliable way. No need to add a tech stack that might or might not yield the proper answer and might or might not hide important facts in the summary.

Edit: feddit.org/comment/12160220 this fella has some great additions, too. E.g. Unnecessary resource hunger.

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in reply to Señor Mono

The advantage with the agents is that they can do much better fuzzy searching when you're not using exact terms, and they can correlate things for you. So, you can ask general questions and get useful information pulled out from your db. A searchable ZIM drive doesn't do that for you.
in reply to ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆

I love the concept, i have even been working on something similar but, big buts…

Recommend ubuntu? While many are moving away from it.

Ai chat with ollama as a prominent feature? Controversy aside, this survival computer better packs some hardware, which may cost more precious possibly limited power.

Note taking app? Besides the intention to run it on ubuntu which i presume already includes something to work with markdown… any computer with a terminal can make notes as far as i know.

Hardware scoring and community leaderboard? wtaf

Things like offline wikipedia in kiwix are indeed pretty cool but in general the way this software describes itself feels sloppy and based more on vibes then anything though out.

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in reply to ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆

Too much AI, too much Internet dependence, need a complete distro including all data with single click install from USB stick and no downloading. IDK if Khan Academy even allows that.
in reply to solrize

What internet dependence, it's completely offline once you install it. Also, nobody is forcing you to use the LLM bundled with it. Stop perseverating.
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in reply to solrize

It's obviously a different take on the "survival" data horde. Its obviously not intended as a wasteland survival kit, it seems intended for a scenario where the power is still on but universal internet access isn't a given.
in reply to SamuraiBeandog

Yeah, as a bunch of other people have said, the idea is good but the implementation is dubious. Khan Academy does allow downloading though: khanacademy.org/downloads
in reply to solrize

Implementation seems fine to me, I'm not sure what people think is dubious?
in reply to SamuraiBeandog

They say various things in the other comments. I agree with most of the criticisms.
in reply to ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆

Sounds like a very cool idea, the implementation.... not so much.

Also who would you use a chatbot in a survival situation when it halucinates and can be replaced with a simple search in this case?

in reply to Jack

I don't see any problem with using a chatbot to find information in a giant wiki myself.
in reply to Jack

It's as if you have a Pavlovian response to anything AI related, and then just try to deflect when pressed on your bullshit. Seems like some people on here have less mental faculties than a chatbot smdh.
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in reply to ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆

Seems like some people on here have less mental faculties than a chatbot


Yeah right

in reply to Jack

I love how you just can't help yourself reply compulsively. We've already established that you can't actually make a coherent point, and are just lashing out. Take the L and go home.
in reply to ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆

I don't make arguments because you can't argue with indoctrinated people.
in reply to Jack

It's true, being indoctrinated, you're not actually capable of rational thought, and therefore unable to make a coherent point. Glad you're self aware enough to admit it.
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in reply to Jack

Might be kids (under-40s) these days dont remember functional search. Or theres no easy packages available.
in reply to Jack

As long as you understand the limitations, AI is just a vastly more efficient way to find information in large knowledge bases. For a topic that you know nothing about a chatbot gives you the ability to work through the information in a conversational manner, honing in on the specific bits you're trying to understand and filling in the "things that I don't know I don't know" holes, and then you can go to the source material and verify the details.
in reply to ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆

in reply to ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆

Check out internet in a box. The Wikipedia foundation supports it. IMO that is also over engineered for my needs, so built a lighter weight variant.

That's how they get wikipedia on this btw.

In my variant I have the complete English Wikipedia, a ton of official documentation on programming languages I use or might need to use, as well as calibre for eBook and pdf housing.

All running in docker containers, behind an nginx reverse proxy landing page.