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    [–] clif@lemmy.world 32 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago) (2 children)

    Last time I updated it was closer to 120GB but if you're not sweating 100 GB then an extra 20 isn't going to bother anyone these days.

    Also, thanks for reminding me that I need to check my dates and update.

    EDIT: you can also easily configure a SBC like a Raspberry Pi (or any of the clones) that will boot, set the Wi-Fi to access point mode, and serve kiwix as a website that anyone (on the local AP wifi network) can connect to and query... And it'll run off a USB battery pack. I have one kicking around the house somewhere

    [–] Fmstrat@lemmy.world 2 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago) (1 children)

    Do you recommend adding anything else to it?

    For instance, OSM maps?

    I've been thinking about running the Kiwix app + OSMAnd on an old Android phone and auto updating it once a year.

    [–] clif@lemmy.world 1 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

    That's a good question (and good idea) that I hadn't really thought about past a collection of ZIMs. The one I built advertises it's own AP SSID that anyone can connect to and then access the ZIMs that are served via kiwix-serve on HTTP/80. That is, I wanted a single, low power, headless device that multiple people could use simultaneously via wifi and browser rather than a personal device.

    I hadn't really thought about other helpful services past that. I mean, we've got a (wee) server so why not use it? I like the idea of OSM and their website is open source but has a lot of dependencies :

    openstreetmap-website is a Ruby on Rails application that uses PostgreSQL as its database, and has a large number of dependencies for installation

    A fully-functional openstreetmap-website installation depends on other services, including map tile servers and geocoding services, that are provided by other software. The default installation uses publicly-available services to help with development and testing.

    I wonder how hard it would be to host everything it needs locally/offline... and what that would do to power consumption : )

    Thanks for the idea - something to look into, for sure.

    [–] techwithjake@sh.itjust.works 1 points 26 minutes ago

    Saw your comment on mine and finally saw this one.

    I'm gonna take a look at openstreetmap-tile-server and see about running that since if all has gone to shit, who knows if GPS will work. Least it's almost like a paper map and can be auto-updated as long as we still have internet. Quick Gist someone wrote here.

    [–] techwithjake@sh.itjust.works 14 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

    Just built one of those using Dietpi as the OS and NVME M.2 for the storage. I have many different ZIMs and running different services and only using about 270GB.

    Works great for offline use. Probably should add an ISO or 2 as well.

    [–] clif@lemmy.world 1 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago) (1 children)

    What other services are you running?

    @fmstrat@lemmy.world asked what else I was running in a sibling comment to yours and I didn't have an answer because I'm not... yet : )

    [–] techwithjake@sh.itjust.works 1 points 31 minutes ago

    DietPi makes it dead simple to run most of these things as their "software suite" is pretty robust and simple to setup.

    For "user facing" applications:

    • Homer Dashboard as the landing page when going to the .local address in a browser
    • Kiwix for the ZIMs
    • Hedgedoc for personal note taking/wiki
    • Lychee photos for a very lightweight photo album maker/viewer for keepsake photos.

    For "admin side" stuff:

    • Portainer to manage the containers/stacks
    • Watchtower to auto-update the containers while they're still network connected
    • Transmission daemonized to download and seed the ZIMs or anything else non-pirate related
    • Use jojo2357's ZIM updater to auto-update ZIMs via cron job while they're still network connected
    • DietPi-Dashboard as an all-in-one dashboard to monitor and control the RPi from a web interface. (Yeah I know I can do everything SSH'ing in but I'm lazy.)
    • File Browser just in case I want other people to have access to files but since it's in maintenance mode and I'm unsure I want others to have access, might strip it out

    I try to use containers from LinuxServer.io whenever possible. Mostly just cause it's what I do on my main server.

    I'm still looking at adding/removing things as I get more time to sit down but I'm pretty happy with it's current state.