And if you can, donate to the Internet Archive – those people do really important work in today’s age of killing off old information and constant enshittification.
Completely forgot about kiwix; I have that on my ipad and laptop, along with Dash which is like a modern day HELPPC.COM if anyone remembers that thing…
Grab a copy of the stackoverflow database and use it locally, or train your own local LLM on the datastore.
And if you can, donate to the Internet Archive – those people do really important work in today’s age of killing off old information and constant enshittification.
Came here to say something similar about a local archive.
You can also use the app Kiwix to make it a little easier to download/search (and grab several other doc archives like Python PEP and Wikipedia)
Completely forgot about kiwix; I have that on my ipad and laptop, along with Dash which is like a modern day
HELPPC.COMif anyone remembers that thing…I didn’t know about Dash, but it sounds pretty great. Appears to be Mac only, though, and requires a subscription for the latest version.
Also found someone that appears to have converted HelpPC to HTML. Can’t speak to the legitimacy of it, though.
https://www.stanislavs.org/helppc/
I used Kiwix to grab a copy of Wikipedia.
Damnnnnn, truth bombs!