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Iced Raktajino

@ IcedRaktajino @startrek.website

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I'm beautiful and tough like a diamond...or beef jerky in a ball gown.

-- Titus Andromedon

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  • Nice! Those AllWinner boards are a little tricky to get going and have some quirks, but the price is great for the extra horsepower you get. Granted, I use the latest Armbian since the manufacturer's images are all quite old.

  • Is there an active community in the Lemmy / PieFed-connected Fediverse devoted to Indie and Alt-pop?

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  • 130GB for the entire thing? And the pi doesn't choke on indexing / searching it?

    That was my thought. I knew it couldn't hold it in RAM but thought it would be doing crazy IO and limited by being on SD, but it seems to not be a problem. Like I said, I don't know how ZIM does it, but it does it well. Must have some kind of index that lets it fast travel to the correct blocks or something. I dunno lol.

    how capable is the search engine (I assume it has one?)

    Yep, it has search. It's....okay but kind of primitive. It's not slow, and if you're searching for something that's fairly unique (as far as keywords go), it does well. But if you're searching something like an acronym where it shows up as a regular word in other entries, it's a lot more hit or miss.

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  • Yep, and I love it.

    I've got a little Banana Pi M4 Zero (PiZero form factor but much more powerful and with 4 GB RAM) loaded up with, among other useful tools, Kiwix and the full Wikipedia dump. I just refreshed it with the 2026-02 full dump, so I'm caught up for the year. I've also got a lot of other offline docs loaded up (React, Bun, and the devdocs for several libraries I use) and it's nice to have local copies of those instead of googling every time.

    Surprisingly, the full ~130 GB Wikipedia dump works fine on a regular Pi Zero 2 with 512 MB RAM. I don't know how ZIM works but it does work very very well.

  • Do you fulfill a lot of stereotypes?

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  • Good point. I guess I'm a "nerd" in that I like to learn, like to understand the "why" of things, and prefer a good book to a movie, but I was mostly basing "nerd" off of the Hollywood nerd / dork character I grew up watching.

  • Do you fulfill a lot of stereotypes?

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  • If I do, then it's in ways I'm totally blind to.

    I'm gay but I have to remind even close friends of that fact from time to time lol.

    I'm a huge Star Trek nerd, but I can't quote plot points and episode numbers like bible verses.

    I work in IT but I'm far from the as-seen-on-TV geek / graybeard. (thankfully that stereotype is fading away for the most part).

    I'm sure there are some stereotypes I fit into that I'm just not aware of, but the ones I am aware of I tend to buck.

  • If they were just stuck on that beach the rest of the show, I could live with it

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  • Jerboa alternatives?

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  • Nice. Only omitted that one because I hadn't heard of it. I like to switch apps every so often so will check it out.

  • Jerboa alternatives?

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  • Any reason why you can't just use one of the many, many web-based apps and "install" it? Photon, Alexandrite, Tesseract, Voyager, and many more all let you "install" them to your home screen. They run in your phone's web browser but don't have the address bar and work full screen and basically look/act like native apps.

  • Don't be ridiculous

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  • In the novels, that's what the Borg finally do, and surprise, it works.

  • One is illegal, and one is not

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  • It's been a minute but I don't think so; just "android body". I just called it a golem since that's what they're called in PIC when they're meant to accept a human mind upload.

  • One is illegal, and one is not

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  • In the novelverse, what became Data was originally planned to be Soong's body via brain uploading. So the meme kinda still works.

    And in a "comes full circle" series of events, what was Soong's current android "golem" body became Data's which resurrected him after the events of Nemesis.

    The "Cold Equations" trilogy is really quite good.

  • What's the greatest break up song in your opinion?

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  • Not enough songs out there for the people who know they were the problem.

    Also that.

  • What are you doing with your spare solar power?

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  • I'm eventually going for a hybrid heat pump model but I mentioned a cheap electric resistive one as a preheater because it's easy to use as a dump load

  • What are you doing with your spare solar power?

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  • I just got my two 314 AH batteries and 10KW inverter yesterday, so I'm not at the "spare solar power" point yet, but a lot of people will have a second electric water heater (in "front" of the main one) that acts as a dump load and pre-heats the water before it gets to the main tank.

    I'm looking at getting a Slate EV truck hopefully next year, so that will also charge from my installation.

    Grid-tie and exporting surplus PV generation isn't an option for me due to electric company shenanigans.

    I suppose when I do get to the excess PV point, I might just buy additional batteries

  • TIL Gene Shalit is still alive and is 100 years old

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  • If you live to 100, you're legally allowed to make up any reason for how you managed to do so. That's as good as any!

  • The scurge continues

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  • Still classier (less unclassy?) than these:

    Lol at the afterthought of this: "Enterprise-Deez Nuts"

  • TIL the inventor of the Rubik's cube took a month to solve it the first time.

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  • Pro tip: It's still a puzzle if you take it apart and put it back together in the right order. Just a different type of puzzle lol.

    (Taking the stickers off and rearranging them is still cheating though).