FYI, the kiwix foundation makes offline versions of wikimedia resources (though at pretty wide intervals, depending on the site, annually) which you can download via torrent and browse with a ZIM viewer. I use this as an offline resource on my home LAN, and have used other kiwix downloaded resources to train a local LLM without spamming the real internet: library.kiwix.org

Download a little offline Wiki for rainy days folks!

I take connectivity for granted but shouldn’t. Batteries charged, books on the shelf, offline games and media stored locally…

> Live on a dorm
> There’s lots of people
> Cell towers are motherfuckingly overloaded during the day
> 0.09Mbps down, 4.5Mbps up and > 300ms on 4G

What kind of shitty-ass dorm relies on cellular connections? When I was in college, we had wired ethernet in the dorms and then wifi on top of that. Piracy was huge, in part because it was a lot of folks’ first opportunity to have a fast connection, LOL.

(Admittedly, that was at a research university that had been sitting directly on internet backbone since the NSFNET days, but still…!)