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Showerthoughts

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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The most popular seem to be lighthearted clever little truths, hidden in daily life.

Here are some examples to inspire your own showerthoughts:

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  1. All posts must be showerthoughts
  2. The entire showerthought must be in the title
  3. No politics
    • If your topic is in a grey area, please phrase it to emphasize the fascinating aspects, not the dramatic aspects. You can do this by avoiding overly politicized terms such as "capitalism" and "communism". If you must make comparisons, you can say something is different without saying something is better/worse.
    • A good place for politics is c/politicaldiscussion
  4. Posts must be original/unique
  5. Adhere to Lemmy's Code of Conduct and the TOS

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[–] _cryptagion@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)

That's uncompressed, the compressed archive is just over 102GB. And yes, you can download the entirety of Wikipedia as a single archive, and they tell you how on Wikipedia itself. The easiest way is probably Kiwix.

And not just the whole thing, either, you can download specific topics, or the top 100 articles, or the whole thing in simple English without pictures, etc.

[–] TangledHyphae@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

The 102GB includes pictures then? That's insane.

[–] _cryptagion@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 2 days ago

I honestly don't know, I've only downloaded the archive with the simple English articles and no pictures. that was only like 900mb or so. I imagine there's some sort of image optimization that's done on all images uploaded to the site. And when you think about it, most articles don't actually have images with them. So the 102gb might be the whole thing.

I can say for sure that the archive does include at least some images, because it says it does. I do plan on downloading it at some point so I can make a local mirror of Wikipedia with my Raspberry Pi, but I haven't bought a drive for it yet and don't want to use one of the ones I have now for it because I have Ventoy and a bunch of ISOs on it.