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  • solrize@lemmy.worldtoSelfhosted@lemmy.worldSelfhosting wikipedia
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    3 days ago

    I haven’t looked in a few years but 20TB is probably plenty. I agree that Wikipedia lost its way once it got all that attention online and all that search traffic. Everyone should have their own copy of Wikipedia. I used to download the daily incremental data dumps but got tired of it. I still have a few TB of them around that I’ve been wanting to merge.


  • The text is in not-exactly-convenient database dumps (see other commenter’s link) and there are daily diffs (mostly bot noise), but then there are the images and other media, which are way up in the terabytes by now. There are some docs, maybe out of date, about how to run the software yourself. It’s written in PHP and it’s big and complicated.



  • I use Thunderbird and hate it. Full of bugs and cramdowns (not sure what the right term is) where they make a bad setting that you can’t undo. Also too difficult to find too many things. And way too many non-mail features. I haven’t bothered seeking a good alternative but Thunderbird leaves a lot to be desired. Forking isn’t likely to help much. It needs total replacement.







  • At the dr’s office the idea is generally sit down and relax for a few moments, if you have gotten exerted by walking up stairs or whatever. Otherwise there’s not much special. The main difference is they usually have a nurse take your blood pressure with a manual squeeze bulb device, using a stethoscope to listen to your pulse underneath the cuff. This is more accurate than using an automatic pushbutton monitor like most people use at home. The pushbutton monitors work somewhat differently and inherently lose accuracy from that.

    I don’t know if it’s possible to take your own blood pressure with the manual gizmo. You might need another person to do it (unless you’re one of those rare and exceptional people with three arms), and they have to know how. It’s not rocket science but it’s more complicated than pressing a button. There are online instructions and youtube vids showing how to do it, I’m sure.

    It might be possible to build a fancier machine that does the manual-style measurement automatically, but it would be more expensive than the typical kind.



  • This is spammy and AI-style long winded. I didn’t read much. A shorter version without the advertising would be more useful.

    The usual way to stay mostly private is just set up a corporation and bill through it. Here in California the annual fees are enough to be annoying but in other states they are very low. I once played with the idea of offering “company as a service” that would do everything for you online, but meh.