Looking for ideas: offline entertainment device (mander.xyz)

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I'm looking to build a small entertainment device for use in my offgrid place. I'd like to use it for reading, music and movies. I'd like for it to have low power needs. And for it to carry a varied library.

How would you build such a thing?

My initial idea is to repurpose an android phone, install VLC, and an SD card with pirated video transcoded to 720p, ebooks and mp3s.

Does it make sense to maximize battery life by jailbreaking the phone and disabling background services?

Thanks for your input

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[-] ace_garp@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago

I tried out Kiwix this week.

It is a library manager for offline content.

A thousand downloadable 'books'(1000s of GB) from Wikipedia, Stack Exchange topics, ebooks, kids books, prepper content, to the Blender Open Movies.

This is the easiest way to setup an offline library of quality content.

(It is not in FDroid, but installs via Obtainium just fine)

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Maybe look at AARD2 as an offline Wikipedia browser too.

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