Connect the unconnected #kiwix

@jvt038

Thanks for the recs! I do use #KeePassXC with #SyncThing for password management, and #calibre for books, but hosting the books for use with other devices would be cool!

Right now I have #Gutenberg library on my #kiwix instance though, and that has a LOT of public domain books :)

What should I add to my small home server next? #NextCloud ? Maybe some kind of home page for everything?

Currently running:
- #Pi-Hole with #Unbound
- #NGINX reverse proxy serving both
- #Kiwix
- #JellyFin
- #Wireguard with #PiVPN
- #Samba NAS for compaibility with my wife's Windows machine

Spent the morning yesterday learning about #ngnix reverse proxy, #TLS self-signed certificates, and DH.

Some of my zim libraries needed HTTPS for service workers on my #kiwix server. My setup is admittedly a bit hacky, but it works! Since it will only ever run on my LAN, I set up local DNS records in #PiHole to point to the server, and NGINX to redirect to the proper port.

Now with everything set up, I can type the domain, and everything "just works" instead of typing in an IP:port number like I've been doing.

I still have a lot to learn, but it's been fun building this home network from the ground up! Just wanted to share here with Fedi friends because my wife has no idea what I'm talking about and just asks me to stop :stallman:

@Seirdy Download @kiwix #kiwix and the Unix stackexchange perhaps. That should have a TON of stuff to keep you busy!

@trippedup

Thanks! I'm running the NAS with #JellyFin and #Kiwix on a #RPi4 which I was fortunate to pick up before they became scarce.

@trippedup

Thanks! I'm running #JellyFin and #Kiwix on an #RPi4 — I was fortunate to pick one up a few years ago before they became scarce.

Got #Kiwix up and running! Biggest hassle was figuring how to get it to run as a daemon at boot because their #documentation sucks.

Finally dug into their source to find command options to actually run it and point to .zim files and run as a service.

I think my next project will be to set up #WireGuardVPN to access my LAN remotely

It's time to replace my #Kindle Oasis 3. I decided that it is also time to break free from #Amazon with #ebooks, so I ordered a #Kobo Libra 2. It supports a lot more file formats - including the #ZIM files used by @kiwix #kiwix for offline reading of entire websites! Also it's cheaper and has a more modern, higher-contrast #eInk Carta 1200 display.

I suspect all I will miss is the built-in free 4G. But I use that a lot less than I used to on Kindles, and I can tether to phone.

Uses for #sneakernet 5/ The #kiwix project @kiwix is designed to make #websites accessible #offline. If you have a need to see them offline, that implies a need to get the data to them somehow. Again the kiwix .zim files could be mailed to the recipients on SD cards.

@kiwix I love #kiwix! There are several different places to look at the available library. It would be good, especially to people that want to see what's available before installing, to have a clear pointer to just one. It's also not clear, if I provide a ZIM for my site, how to get it readily available to people in the library.

@kensanata BTW zimit prepares the ZIM files used by #kiwix. See https://www.kiwix.org/en/zim-it-up/ for details. Online service at https://youzim.it/ and source code at https://github.com/openzim/zimit

@kensanata You might want to look into #kiwix. Designed specifically for this. I also use #ArchiveBox and it is good.

@ajroach42 Thank you for introducing me to #kiwix. Looks interesting!