If you're going to post political memes in a non-political meme community, at least spell things correctly.
IcedRaktajino
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US: "Zeebra"
I would venture a guess that countries that say "Z" as "Zee" pronounce it "zeebra" where countries that say Z as in "Zed" pronounce it zebrah like "Debra".
screen time is just a limit on time to learn if the kid is using it for the right purposes which you should teach them to
Emphases mine. So many parents just plop their kid down in front of a TV or tablet and use it like a babysitter. They don't teach kids media literacy and just let "the algorithm" keep them entertained so they can have some peace and quiet. And that's assuming the parents have the requisite media literacy to pass on - many don't.
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?
Not sure about alt-pop specifically, but these are alternative/indie music communities:
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.
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.
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.
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.
Yeah, that's what I've got, and I really like it.
I'm in the same boat. Got all the equipment in for my whole house solar installation and will be re-routing circuits to the new panel as soon as I have time so will have to turn all the power off for the duration of that.
I've got an Anker power station that should run my stack for about 4-4.5 hours by itself and can run it indefinitely while the sun is out while hooked into the PV panels. Those are (currently) independent from the new installation I'm about to start.
My UPS's are also LiFePO4 models and can add an additional ~45 minutes of uptime. So hopefully 5 hours is enough to avoid having to shut anything down.
Here's a write-up I read not too long ago and answers many of your questions, though the author is mostly concerned with getting data access going. Short answer is yes, most will "just work" provided you use the correct modes and configs.
https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2022/using-4g-lte-wireless-modems-on-raspberry-pi/
Those all fall under what's called the IMS (IP Multimedia Subsystem) and is often problematic implementing in open source. If I recall, Ubuntu Touch has a (mostly?) working IMS implementation but I don't recall if it's universally functional or limited to specific devices/carriers. Some WWAN cards will allow calls/texts, but those are usually in "3G" mode which is rapidly disappearing as carriers switch to VoLTE or VoNR/Vo5G (which are basically just fancy VoIP).
If you're willing to forego traditional carrier voice/messaging, you can use any number of messaging apps that work on Linux and/or combine that with a 3rd party VoIP provider for PSTN calling/phone number and SMS/MMS. Just don't expect to get RCS messaging going; even on Android proper, you're limited to Google Messages only.