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Create your own off-grid library
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Panels shared edges: two 1px borders meeting, which reads as one tall
surface with a rule across it rather than a seam between two.
Done as `margin-bottom` on the panel first, which is the anti-pattern, and
it failed in both of the ways that rule is known to fail before the reading
was done. It compounded with the gap of every Stack that already held
panels -- four of them, spacing those lists at 35.2px against the app's
17.6px -- and the `:last-child` reset meant to keep trailing space off the
bottom of a container silently did nothing, because Media wrapping makes a
panel the only child of its own wrapper. On Status that separated four
pairs out of five and left the first touching.
So the space belongs to whatever stacks the blocks. `.wrolpi-stack` is on
PageContainer, which every page uses, and on the three wrappers that stack
blocks somewhere the page's own stack cannot reach: Settings' panel wrapper,
the block below the video player, and the Zim and Map route wrappers, which
hold their tab bar outside PageContainer.
A gap rather than `> * + * { margin-top }`, which was tried and is quietly
broken here: Media injects `.fresnel-container { margin: 0; padding: 0 }` at
runtime, same specificity, later source order, so every wrapped block threw
the margin away. A child cannot zero its parent's gap. It also means
Media's hidden half contributes nothing, where the owl selector spaced
around something invisible.
With the page owning the spacing, the blocks that owned some of it had to
give it up, or their margin was added to the gap: the tab bar (33px against
17.6 everywhere else), the shared search control bar and paginator on
Videos/Archives/Docs/Files, the card grid, the file browser's filter row and
the inventory search. Two margins deliberately stay -- the file browser's
4em, which reserves room for the sticky buttons (
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WROLPi
Create your own off-grid library.
WROLPi is a self-contained collection of software to help you survive the world Without Rule of Law.
WROLPi is intended to be run on a Raspberry Pi with an optional external drive attached. It serves up it's own Wi-Fi network so that any user with a laptop/tablet/phone can connect and use the library created by the maintainer.
Table of Contents
Features
- Videos
- Web Archives
- Maps
- Wikipedia
- File search
- eBooks (EPUB / PDFs)
- Wi-Fi Hotspot
- Universal search
- Food Inventory management
- One-Time pad generator, encrypter/decrypter
- Synchronizer/duplicator
- Food storage calculator
Module features matrix
| Module | View | Search | Download | Project |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Videos | yes | yes | yes | yt-dlp |
| Web Archives | yes | yes | yes | Singlefile |
| Wikipedia | yes | yes | yes | Kiwix |
| eBooks | yes | yes | planned | EPUB/PDF |
| Map | yes | yes | yes | Protomaps |
| Podcasts/Audio | yes | planned | planned |
Demo
Download
Images are available at wrolpi.org
Try WROLPi!
You can try out WROLPi by running the docker containers.
- Install docker-ce and docker-compose
- Copy the latest WROLPi code.
git clone https://github.com/lrnselfreliance/wrolpi.git
- Change directory into the code base.
cd wrolpi
- Initialize git submodules
git submodule update --init
- Build the containers.
docker-compose build --parallel
- Create volumes.
docker volume create --name=openstreetmap-datadocker volume create --name=openstreetmap-rendered-tiles
- Initialize the database (SQLite in the media directory).
docker-compose run --rm api db upgrade
- Start the docker containers.
docker-compose up
- Browse to WROLPi.
More Docker documentation is available in docker/README.md
Install WROLPi
Full installation instructions are in INSTALL.md. Pick the option that matches your hardware:
- WROLPi Portable (Live USB) — boot a complete WROLPi from a USB stick on any x86 PC or laptop. Nothing is installed to the computer; the first boot creates a persistence partition on the USB so your library, database, and configuration survive reboots.
- Debian 12 — install WROLPi onto an x86 PC or laptop.
- Raspberry Pi — install WROLPi onto a Raspberry Pi with an external drive.
- Docker — run the WROLPi containers on an existing Linux host.
Charter
Guiding Principals
- Storage is cheaper than power.
- Two is one, one is none.
- Run silently.
- Primary, secondary, tertiary.
- Secure as a bookshelf in your home.
Physical properties
- A WROLPi instance should be capable of running with a minimal of hardware:
- Raspberry Pi
- SD card
- External USB hard drive
- Power supply and cables
- Wi-Fi USER device such as a phone, tablet, or laptop.
- A WROLPi instance should consume a minimal amount of electricity during WROL event. It is expected power will be scarce when WROLPi is needed most.
User expectations
- A WROLPi instance should be run and maintained by a person (MAINTAINER) with a moderate amount of Linux and Raspberry Pi experience. It is expected that they should be able to do this using only the documentation on their WROLPi.
Software properties and capabilities
- A WROLPi instance should be able to "factory-reset" itself without any outside services.
- WROLPi should function completely without any internet services.
- A user should have easy access to their data if WROLPi fails:
- For example, a user can watch their videos by navigating a short and intuitive directory structure and opening the video in their preferred video player.
- WROLPi should be self-documented. The UI should contain a tutorial for USERS as well as the MAINTAINER.
- If the UI isn't functional, the code should be documented such that a user can restore functionality.
- WROLPi should favor pre-processing, rather than processing during a WROL event. Such as re-encoding a video, or processing captions. This is to ensure that when a user adds content during non-WROL time, the processing for optimum performance is already done for a WROL event.
Join!
