boem@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 6 months agoThe Toilet Theory of the Internet: Google is serving an audience that wants quick and easy results. That may lead to disaster.www.theatlantic.comexternal-linkmessage-square46fedilinkarrow-up1381arrow-down111cross-posted to: becomeme@sh.itjust.works
arrow-up1370arrow-down1external-linkThe Toilet Theory of the Internet: Google is serving an audience that wants quick and easy results. That may lead to disaster.www.theatlantic.comboem@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 6 months agomessage-square46fedilinkcross-posted to: becomeme@sh.itjust.works
minus-squareGsus4@mander.xyzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·edit-26 months ago BTW, does anybody know of an offline encyclopedia which works under Wine? You can download wikipedia: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Database_download edit: if you really meant you want to see if any old encyclopedias work under wine, I never tried :D
minus-squarerottingleaf@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·6 months agoI know, I meant something interactive from that time, complete and consistent. Like Encarta.
minus-squarejfxlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·6 months agoI’m still consulting my venerable encyclopaedia britannica dvd until this day. It works great under wine and actually does not work under a current version of windows anymore.
minus-squarerottingleaf@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·edit-26 months ago It works great under wine Which version is that? EDIT: Never mind
minus-squarerottingleaf@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·6 months agoAh. I actually found the 2004 version and the script to run it on Linux, and it works except for world atlas
You can download wikipedia: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Database_download
edit: if you really meant you want to see if any old encyclopedias work under wine, I never tried :D
I know, I meant something interactive from that time, complete and consistent. Like Encarta.
I’m still consulting my venerable encyclopaedia britannica dvd until this day. It works great under wine and actually does not work under a current version of windows anymore.
Which version is that?
EDIT: Never mind
2008 ultimate
Ah. I actually found the 2004 version and the script to run it on Linux, and it works except for world atlas