I tried to find a solution for my failing marriage in the arch wiki. The arch wiki instructed me that the problem was consulting the arch wiki. Thanks for saving my marriage, arch wiki!
On your other Arch laptop, obviously. You need multiple pre-owned ThinkPads loaded with Arch at any given time to maintain workable redundancy, just like you need several clean pairs of programming socks.
I’ve still got a backup copy of The Internet from back in the day when you could install The Internet on your computer using a cd which arrived in the post. I also have a backup pile of optical drives so if necessary I can burn you a copy of The Internet and post it to you? Though I haven’t got a copy of the postal service.
Knowledge don’t rust. What happened happened. It’s static. Sometimes we discover that a speck of dust was in the wrong place, but we got it more or less right. I mean, I could look up shit in our 50 year old encyclopedia and it would still be mostly correct…
Another option that’s available is hosting your own Kiwix instance and downloading the Arch Wiki .zim file.
I have a few other .zim’s from the Kiwix library including Alpine Wiki, Stack Overflow, Man pages and a full copy of Wikipedia. There’s a lot available at that Kiwix library which can make for a good offline digital library.
Whenever I have a Linux box without Internet I just USB tether an Android phone—if the phone is on WiFi then it uses that (not cell), so it’s basically just a WiFi adapter that’s almost universally supported. (I think it NATs, so in some circumstances won’t work, but good enough for most emergency use cases.)
The wifi hotspot uses mobile data and requires an active wifi reciever on the computer while the usb tether can use mobile or wifi data and only requires a working usb on the computer.
You basically only plug a usb data cord between the computer and phone, and then activate usb tether in the phones connection settings
With some apple laptops, you have to do something like that in order to get the firmware for the wifi chip in 90% of distros, I think endeavourOS was the only one snacking the correct AUR package right at installation 😇
That‘s very curious to me because the Arch Wiki doesn‘t offer any answers to „I have this problem with this program, because I want it to do this thing here“. It only explains you endless pages of fundamentals that may or may not be related to your problem. I‘ve got a Computer to run so I search for the quickest solution to the many little quirks and problems Arch has. If I have to learn about software architecture fundamentals every time something comes up I wouldn‘t get anything done. My machine just has to do the tasks I need it for so most of that knowledge is kind of useless to me 99.9% of the time. Again, I don‘t want to tinker with my OS endlessly. I just want stuff to work. Luckily there has been at least one soul experiencing the same problem as me and already posted a solution. Don‘t get me wrong good documentation is crucial. I don‘t think any of this would work without it. But most users like me rely on giga nerds who can make sense of it and explain it efficiently.
Distro hoping is fine. But there is a certain feeling you get when you can fix your own problems by reading the arch wiki
Honestly. Arch has taught me a lot.
I love fixing arch by reading the arch wiki, or fixing ubuntu by reading the arch wiki
I set up my login manager for fedora and my grub for fedora using the arch wiki…
I tried to find a solution for my failing marriage in the arch wiki. The arch wiki instructed me that the problem was consulting the arch wiki. Thanks for saving my marriage, arch wiki!
or fixing windows by only using WSL and reading the arch wiki
How to enter arch wiki if no internet
you can download the arch wiki on kiwix (for android), it’s like 30 megabytes
IP Over Avian Carriers.
Well, shit. Got 2 tebibytes to transfer, guess I’d better start now, hey?
Good thing transferring 2 tebibytes is no slower than 2 kibibytes
Just attach two of these bad boys
Instead of a bird can I just use my station wagon full of tapes?
MTU is technically infinite, just need a 2TB microSD card.
For shit and giggles, it should be on Arch Wiki too.
On your other Arch laptop, obviously. You need multiple pre-owned ThinkPads loaded with Arch at any given time to maintain workable redundancy, just like you need several clean pairs of programming socks.
…“clean”? Well shit, I have some work to do then!:-P
Your optimism about sock cleanliness is wonderful
Phone or use an offline copy
Going to save this link just in case the Internet goes down one day.
I saved the comment so I can download the wiki if I ever lose internet.
Not sure that’ll work, I’ll paste the Wiki here
Beginning with Part 1 of 1,204:
I downloaded all your comments so I could read them in case the Internet stops existing.
I’ve still got a backup copy of The Internet from back in the day when you could install The Internet on your computer using a cd which arrived in the post. I also have a backup pile of optical drives so if necessary I can burn you a copy of The Internet and post it to you? Though I haven’t got a copy of the postal service.
Knowledge don’t rust. What happened happened. It’s static. Sometimes we discover that a speck of dust was in the wrong place, but we got it more or less right. I mean, I could look up shit in our 50 year old encyclopedia and it would still be mostly correct…
Another option that’s available is hosting your own Kiwix instance and downloading the Arch Wiki .zim file.
I have a few other .zim’s from the Kiwix library including Alpine Wiki, Stack Overflow, Man pages and a full copy of Wikipedia. There’s a lot available at that Kiwix library which can make for a good offline digital library.
Whenever I have a Linux box without Internet I just USB tether an Android phone—if the phone is on WiFi then it uses that (not cell), so it’s basically just a WiFi adapter that’s almost universally supported. (I think it NATs, so in some circumstances won’t work, but good enough for most emergency use cases.)
I’ve never tried that. I do the wifi hotspot but what do I need to do USB tether?
The wifi hotspot uses mobile data and requires an active wifi reciever on the computer while the usb tether can use mobile or wifi data and only requires a working usb on the computer.
You basically only plug a usb data cord between the computer and phone, and then activate usb tether in the phones connection settings
With some apple laptops, you have to do something like that in order to get the firmware for the wifi chip in 90% of distros, I think endeavourOS was the only one snacking the correct AUR package right at installation 😇
Just download it and setup on your own server
https://library.kiwix.org/#lang=eng&q=arch
I am a nerd with many computers. That helps.
I use the Arch wiki for non arch stuff
That and the man pages
You ever read the man pages for mount?
Should i?
man mountY’all are using Linux for that?
The ones for goo are especially satisfying.
You guys read man pages?
Yeah. I hope my distro keeps working as smooth as always. I really hope.
I won‘t lie the Arch Wiki has not helped me once. Odd threads in the forums or 2 minute long Youtube videos, though? Couldn‘t make it without those.
Total oposite experience for me.
That‘s very curious to me because the Arch Wiki doesn‘t offer any answers to „I have this problem with this program, because I want it to do this thing here“. It only explains you endless pages of fundamentals that may or may not be related to your problem. I‘ve got a Computer to run so I search for the quickest solution to the many little quirks and problems Arch has. If I have to learn about software architecture fundamentals every time something comes up I wouldn‘t get anything done. My machine just has to do the tasks I need it for so most of that knowledge is kind of useless to me 99.9% of the time. Again, I don‘t want to tinker with my OS endlessly. I just want stuff to work. Luckily there has been at least one soul experiencing the same problem as me and already posted a solution. Don‘t get me wrong good documentation is crucial. I don‘t think any of this would work without it. But most users like me rely on giga nerds who can make sense of it and explain it efficiently.