glitching

can I send a PM to someone on mastodon, public or private?

I was offline for an extended period and realized how dependent on online services I am. so now that I am back online, I tried to have an offline version of various sites via the kiwix project.

the setup should be easy - fetch and then download via torrents the gigabytes of data; each site is in its own ZIM file. store them in a single folder. leave 'em seeding, help out folks. done.

next, get the kiwix app. some browser-like atrocity delivered via flatpak. I'm half-guessing it's electron, because everything shitty usually is and this is just otherwordly shitty. anyhow, the thing is meant to download the ZIMs directly to the computer, which I don't want, I already got the files on my server, accessible via network share or any other mechanism.

in the myriad of confusing, counter-intuitive and just dogshit UX options there's the option to choose the folder containing files. easy enough, pick the folder from the network share and... nothing happens. clicking on home, search, nothing nets any result. ok, restart the app? yeah nah. the app is now frozen. after a while it just disappears and relaunching it doesn't work.

after dicking around with killing everything kiwix related, the app finally launches - in a frozen state. the server's HDD activity light barely lights up so I'm stumped at what it's doing.

finally, the app decides it's no longer "not responding" and I can try searching. let's try something simple, "macbook" - not found. the entirety of human knowledge on my drive and this little-known thingy somehow got skipped.

in the midst of trying various things, we reboot. upon launching the app, it doesn't have any memory of those ZIM files - a flatpak network folder mapping issue I am sure. still, awesome so far.

fuck this app, let's try another way. my server is debian and its packages include kiwix-tools which has the kiwix-serve module. looks easy, kiwix-serve -v -p 7766 /media/data/kiwix/* and... says we're good, I'll set up a systemd service file later, let's connect the app.

except, that's not a thing. nowhere I was able to click and prod and tweak was there an option to enter a network URL.

dogdamit, let's use firefox. server's URL:port and... there we go, a landing page, lists all the ZIMs I got; it's kinda ugly and dated, no way that's a harbinger of doom and hopefully complex use cases like searching the thing will work...

they will not. whatever you search for nets zero fucking results. now, if you open a ZIM file individually, e.g. ifixit, and then search in it, that'll show results. but then, what's the point of the meta search page?

so thanks for reading, I'm looking forward to ditching my ISP and relying on this thing to keep me alive. "bear mauling me what do" - not found.

hey gang! do you have any recommendations for concerts available on the high seas? don't have to be rock per se, whatever rocks your boat... here are mine!

edit: well, that didn't go as planned. I thought it's obvious I'm looking for a) the video kind and b) they're available via torrents and such. I've added a few of the suggestions to my *arr stack and so far there isn't a single seed to be found.

anyone know where I can find any of these? none of my public trackers have any of them... thanks!

turns out durov's bullshit is bullshit. huh.

soo... searched, watched youtubes, but I'm kinda stumped. how do I cook these? also, do I pre-wash them?

everything is either steel-cut or rolled, I ain't got none of those, just normal, whole-grain oats. I don't own nor need a rice cooker, just want the the normal, on-the-stove type of deal.

first run was cup of oats, three cups of water, bring to boil, turn off, leave for an coupla hours. result - it's cooked but there's extra water, so I'm guessing next try is two cups water instead, and maybe a shorter rest period.

I'd like to pre-cook an amount and then use it for a couple of days. I'd also prefer to not season it, as I can then use it with both salty and fruity dishes.

I've got these things locally available in the $50-60 range. This being a generic brand, I imagine a buncha those are available globally. Anyone tried 'em, do they work OK with modern desktops (gnome, plasma)? Touch? DP-Alt or are they DisplayLink? Do they have PD?

Sellers are helpful nada, same with youtube videos, just marketing fluff.

Judge Perlman, who was — no shit — Jewish, did not care for Nazis. This led him to reach out to one of the most powerful Jewish guys around: Meyer Lansky. Judge Perlman, as you might expect, hadn’t done Meyer any favors in the past. He had for example helped to end Prohibition, the repeal of which, while generally extremely popular, wasn’t great for the Meyer Lanskys of the world, who had been making bank off illegal booze. But when Perlman met with Meyer after the rise of the German American Bund, they ended up getting along pretty well. Perlman was like “I want you to disrupt meetings of Nazis” and Meyer was like “excellent, on it,” and Perlman was like “hang on I’m not finished” and Meyer was like “sorry” and Perlman was like “I will pay you and give you legal assistance, should anyone get arrested. The only condition is, don’t kill anyone.” With what I can only imagine to be the world’s greatest eye roll, Meyer said “Ugh fine, I won’t kill anyone. Also, I don’t want your money.”

And then he went to work.

In the meantime, Meyer Lansky and Bugsy Siegel also TRAINED other people to fight Nazis, which, come on, can you just imagine Meyer Lansky and Bugsy Siegel training young antifa in the early 30s? I love it. I’m picturing a lot of newsboy caps and comments like “no no not like that, my bubbe (ofblessedmemory) punches better than that, you grip the brass knuckles like this.”

trying to transfer a large (13 GB) folder via USB to my phone with adb push. if I try singular, smaller files they go through, pushing the whole folder hangs adb and then gets OOM killed.

adb pull from phone #1 worked without issues, pushing it to phone #2 starts eating up all RAM (16 GB) and then gets killed. so I created a 16 GB swap file, swapon, push - same thing, eats up all RAM, then all swap, then OOM manager kills konsole. no files are created on the phone.

transferring via MTP isn't viable, it's like 700 bytes/sec.

tried everything suggested here.

edit: tried adb over wifi, different terminal, same deal.