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The Toilet Theory of the Internet: Google is serving an audience that wants quick and easy results. That may lead to disaster. (www.theatlantic.com)

submitted 6 months ago by boem@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] Gsus4@mander.xyz 5 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

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

[–] rottingleaf@lemmy.zip 5 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I know, I meant something interactive from that time, complete and consistent. Like Encarta.

[–] jfx@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] rottingleaf@lemmy.zip 2 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

It works great under wine

Which version is that?

EDIT: Never mind

[–] jfx@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

2008 ultimate

[–] rottingleaf@lemmy.zip 1 points 6 months ago

Ah. I actually found the 2004 version and the script to run it on Linux, and it works except for world atlas