Technically, yeah. But with less people going to Wikipedia directly there would probably stand to be less chance of getting any new contributors. I’m not sure how the foundation gets all its money, but the more traffic they serve the more they can prove their relevance which might matter for funding

I’m such a sucker for art deco. Half of the times I die in Bioshock is because I’m just gawking around at the in-game architecture instead of watching for splicers.

Fantastic! 😆

Lol, “PatrickGPT” would be the easiest novelty chatbot to write, too.

10 INPUT "ASK ME ANYTHING>"
20 PRINT "[THINKING...]"
30 SLEEP 3
40 PRINT "THAT'S A STUPID QUESTION"
50 GOTO 10

I use the web version rather than the app, but I want to say the app can store the library on the SD card if you have one of sufficient size lying around and if the Redmi has the slot for one. But as someone else said, there are smaller versions you can download if you can’t fit the full one.

Not trying to push Kiwix on you, but I just can’t emphasize enough how handy it is to have offline Wikipedia always on hand.

• Termux has lots of possibilities
• Pair it with a Meshtastic node and make it a dedicated communicator
• I run HomeAssistant and Emby and have several old smartphones to work with, so one lives in each room and act as remotes for those
• Setup Asterisk and make a VoIP system using old smartphones and SIP clients as handsets
• Check if PostmarketOS supports it. I haven’t used it, but it basically turns your phone into a Linux machine if I understand correctly
• Use it as your “ugh, I have to use an app for [THIS]?!” phone. Basically things that require an app for setup or one-off apps you can’t avoid using.
• Make your own little portable Library of Alexandria. Install Kiwix and download a bunch of ZIMs from their library. If you’ve got at least 130 GB to work with, you can even fit the entire Wikipedia dump with images and have that locally.

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If she had simply resigned from her position when she began experiencing health issues, it would have allowed her successor to be nominated and approved under a democratic administration.

There’s no guarantee that would have happened. See Mitch McConnell and Merrick Garland

To be fair, if you’re not at least a little high at a funeral, you’re doing it wrong. Definitely takes the edge off and helps me to function without being a wreck.

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Yeah. Agrovoltaics is just smart land use. Some crops even grow better in the partial shade.

All of them until I get voicemail.

With modern digital phones, the number of rings you hear when calling out doesn’t necessarily match the number of rings on the receiving end. The first few rings you hear when calling out are often “comfort noise” added locally by the network operator and are heard before the call is even fully routed to the receiver.

calling out the way SOME americans act

Emphases clearly mine. Stereotyping 350 million people based off the behavior of a minority isn’t exactly productive. They’re not saying “some Americans” in these potshot posts; they’re stereotyping all of us, and I definitely have a right to be offended by ugly stereotypes.

I’m not worried about AI turning into Skynet. That’s like item # 1,576,549 on my list of reasons I hate AI.

It’s literally everything else about AI:

• Creating scarcity in PC parts and components to feed the AI bros’ insatiable hunger for growth.
• Rent-seekers like Bezos trying to spin the above into yet more “you’ll own nothing and be happy”
• Destroying farmland or otherwise affordable property for sprawling datacenters that create like maybe 12 jobs that can’t be done remotely.
• We never or barely addressed the massive disinformation problem and here’s AI turning it up to 11 by making it trivial to shit out whatever narrative you want at massive scale.
• Stealing from content creators to feed itself and then denying those same creators web traffic
• Just being a bullshit machine that people blindly believe
• Shoving it into everything when no one asks for it and many don’t want it
• Causing electricity rates to go up and subjecting people to either rolling blackouts or dirty generator exhaust because of demand
• The massive use of water for cooling
• Not actually able to do jobs but C-levels laying off people and creating unemployment nonetheless
• C-levels forcing people to use “AI” for the express purpose of training it to do their jobs so they can be laid off
• The goddamned pile of lies upon lies gaslighting us into believing this is to make our lives better.
• Ignoring the loss of jobs, all the supposed savings from “AI” goes to the top; shit isn’t getting any less expensive. It’s even getting more expensive to take a literal shit; the water and poo plants run on electricity, and those risings costs get passed down.