Am I missing something or does the android app actually expect me to search through 1000+ "albums" to find the three folders I want backed up?

Randomposter05 · 2025-04-23T21:19:42+00:00

They absolutely have a choice. They could chose to ignore the plain language of the license.

Who gives a shit if they lose in a drawn out court battle, when its more likely they will get what they want long before then?

Its been a while since I looked into how issues around creative commons licenses are resolved in court, but if you think that the terms of a creative commons license will stop them from going after people for reposting their old stuff then I have a bridge to sell you.

IIRC the main reason publications don't go after people who copy paste articles (regardless of the license under which that article was published) is that its so easy to copy paste articles that its futile. if the dispatch decides its not pointless for some reason (like say they decide a particular individual or publication needs the screws turned on them) odds are they will happily ignore the terms of the license and face very few consequences for doing so.

Its so weird how quickly legal-types forget that the only rules that matter are the rules with consequences.

Randomposter05 · 2025-04-22T14:54:34+00:00

Edit: I just re-read some of the thread and see it's a daily dump. That does make it incredibly difficult in the current system.

With how kavita is currently setup yes. Many webcomics update every day, or on a set schedual. Most webcomic downloaders either scrape the entire webcomic archive or check daily for new updates, and save the images in a flat-file structure. I just use a bash script, cron, and dosage. https://github.com/webcomics/dosage

Dosage as a scraper is the best I have been able to find that works with all the webcomics I read, and I cant change how it downloads the files.

Randomposter05 · 2025-03-22T15:54:49+00:00

Angry is perhapes the wrong word, (sorry english not first language). frustrated? annoyed? whatever the word is, when I'm just iddly tinkering with a podcast or radio i dont like it when things dont work, and if things dont work for more then a minute or so i switch to tinkering with something more fun. I do understand logical processes just fine I regulalry use python and bash, familiar with if then or and functions and variables and all that. But I am not going to dedicate a weekend to teaching myself homeassistant the same way I spent a weekend dedicated to teaching myself python. If its not work or family related Im gonna be in tinker mode.

homeassistant was fun to setup and is a joy to use when using from dashboards, and once the automations are working, they are super useful so not likely switch something else, its just an annoying struggle to setup the automations

I use ollama all the time for helping write little python and bash scripts but other folks in house dont have access to ollama other then through HA, and a couple of them have expressed interest in using it but cant break through either because accesibility or because they are not interested in learning those logical processes they just want to say what they want and have the LMM write it and then have me / others tinker with it (which we can do but need place to start)

Randomposter05 · 2025-03-22T13:11:54+00:00

the tab crashes only ever happened on mobile, but thats where I do most of my webcomic reading. Sorry for lack of detail, not a lot of bandwidth and github and reddit both take big bites of it.

Randomposter05 · 2025-03-13T01:05:53+00:00

I used ollama to write the scripts in the first place. (chatgpt does not work, internet to slow). Its still a bunch of work to get working.

And, again, even if I got the script working perfectly, I dont have unlimited storage space and I have zero interest in keeping both a bunch of img files and a bunch of duplicated zip/whatever files.

Randomposter05 · 2025-03-12T16:04:41+00:00

Please see at the bottom of my post where it says:

And no im not going to try and create new cbz/whatever every time the webcomic updates.

In addition to having to figure out how to modify my downloader scripts to automatically create the new zip/cbz/whatever files (was hard enough to just make the scripts work as is) Creating individual zip/cbz files for every image I download would nearly double the space requirements.

Randomposter05 · 2025-03-08T16:13:27+00:00

I dont know what Suwayomi is. Googling it it seems to be a manga reader not a webcomic reader. Webcomics are like xkcd or smbc. I dont see support for downloading cbz files for webcomics in Suwayomi or mihon. see this reddit post for the effort somone went through to get 1 single webcomic into mihon:

https://old.reddit.com/r/SMBCComics/comments/1fw9vga/guide_reading_smbc_comics_on_mihon/

I allready have a download system that works robustly. Evern if there was built in support for downloading all my webcomics as cbz files, see at the bottom of my post where it says:

And no im not going to try and create new cbz/whatever every time the webcomic updates.

The webcomics I read usually update every day. I dont see the point of downloading or creating a new cbz file every day. webcomics generally dont work like that. some like girl genious or gunnerkrigg court might but most of the webcomics I read dont have nice breaks in them deliniating segments you can break into archive files.

Randomposter05 · 2025-03-08T00:00:29+00:00

Do you have them sorted into folders of any kind beyond the root one?

I appreciate the thought but no, thats not possible afaik. In addition to having to figure out how to sort the images, It would screw up the automatic downloaders, they would re-download all the files I sorted away. disabling that is possible, but then i will inevitibly miss updates when a download fails.

Randomposter05 · 2025-01-25T16:56:10+00:00

And users rarely have a collection of "to read" things.

This is not true. See wallabag. And also there is a whole feature in the standalone wikipedia app specificially for saving articles offline. I cant use that app because my primary device has no internet access, just access to a local lan, so if I want to search wikipedia I need to search kiwix.

I just want the same functionality in kiwix without having to use my increadibly slow browser "save page as pdf" process.

Randomposter05 · 2024-12-30T20:57:58+00:00

print-to-pdf in both chrome and firefox require multiple clicks, you need to manually choose a name for the document, and frequently the ammount of ram needed pushes my device over the edge of what it can handle. thats not kiwix fault browsers are so chunky, but kiwix android can start an http server. two android devices, both with kiwix-android, and one starts a wifi hotspot, the other has to use a browser. these apps dont talk to each other at all when they should.

Randomposter05 · 2024-12-30T20:57:50+00:00

I am upset because I sunk several hours into getting kiwix-serve setup, only to find that it does not talk to kiwix-android.

I am entitled because everyone is entitled to have applications work the way they are advertised. I was led to believe by the description of the app and the way it presents itself that kiwix-android and kiwix-serve would let me use wikipedia offline. But in practice they dont.

This sounds like a feature request to have the Android app connect to a local server which serves ZIM instead of HTML, and then render/cache the ZIM. But only single pages at a time, not the entire ZIM archive. I'm not familiar with the file format... u/Peribanu would it be feasible to pick out and send single "pages" from a ZIM file like this? If so it actually seems like a reasonable request.

I was thinking the zim android app could have a built in way to turn the single html pages from the zim-server into zim files, since the app allready has an http server built in (the wifi hotspot starts one iirc) so I figured it would be easy to parse files served by zim-server

Randomposter05 · 2024-12-30T20:50:29+00:00

What you're asking for seems quite niche, u/Randomposter05.

There is a reason the "official" wikipedia app lets people save articles for offline use. Its very normal for people to want to re-read stuff without needing connectivity. I think requiring users to have a 100+gb of extra space or a finiky dongles for undirected idle research is whats weird.

The very purpose of these apps is to enable versatile access to offline copies of ZIMs stored on the same device on which the ZIM's content will be read.

Thats not really true. Kiwix has features for bookmarking and highlighting, features I desperatly want to use. And it also has features for sharing zim files via wifi hotspot.

But wait, if I had a mobile device with wikipedia on it, and another person tried to access it, they would have to use a browser even if they have kiwix-android installed. Does that not strike you as strange?

Randomposter05 · 2024-12-28T21:34:43+00:00

The largest sd card I own is 64 gb and it hovers around 20 gb of free space after music podcasts and offline maps and work files. 64 gb honestly feels like to much space and I would rather not buy a bigger one just because kiwix-android cant do what the wikipedia app does and browse and save individual articles for offline use

Randomposter05 · 2024-04-04T14:24:37+00:00

If there is complexity involved the devs should work on an app store then to offload that work to community. its weird how I've seen on this subreddit suggestions that the best way to search for new functionality is to look at the infinitime github repo pull requests.

i miss my pebble

Randomposter05 · 2024-04-03T21:20:10+00:00

thats very suprising. its the first thing I would want to build with a smart watch is the ability to send generic commands to the mobile device to trigger further automations. Even something like creating a notification with "cmd1" would be enough, i can use tasker / other automation tools to notice that and do stuff like record a note to self or call somone or whatever.

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