https://www.ifixit.com/News/64006/download-every-ifixit-guide-for-free
"These days the internet may feel pretty ubiquitous. I mean, you’re reading
this online, right? But whether you’re traveling, deployed on a submarine, or
simply living in a rural area, access to the internet is not guaranteed.
Years ago, iFixit used to provide DVDs of every single iFixit guide in PDF
form. These DVDs were quite popular but hard to maintain, especially with the
ever increasing number of guides that were being published to the site.
Eventually the DVDs were no longer updated and the offline initiative was put
on pause.
A decade later, the Internet is becoming increasingly available in different
parts of the world, and because of this, I felt the need to restart this
original effort.
I had a flaky Internet connection for many years, and I know how frustrating it
can be to not be able to access online content because you don’t have a strong
stable connection. Luckily, I now have a fiber connection and 4G/5G wireless
access. But the doomster in the back of my mind says to me that there is
absolutely no guarantee it will continue to be the case forever.
As a life-long tinkerer and computer addict—I’ve got a PHD in process
engineering and a Masters in Automation and Industrial computing—I love the
concept of iFixit. Increasing resilience and sustainability are very important
to me. And when I began contributing as a French translator, I realized that I
could make these guides even more accessible if they were available offline.
I know that many people in the world still do not have Internet access. Four
billion people in the world still don’t have Internet access, that is half the
world’s population. Of course not all of them need access to iFixit (or even
know that they might need it). But even if underserved fixers are a minority of
people, I love the idea of providing them with a solution.
And here is where the Kiwix project comes in."
Via Rixty Dixet.
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*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
