Does anyone have handy perf numbers for both box64 and qemu? Everyone says "it's slow" but I'd love to see some benchmark numbers for relative performance.

Has anyone found an easy way to expand their templates without using their whole stack? I tried getting Lua templates working from Python but didn't get very far...

Parsoid[1] is what you'd want for that, most likely. It's the new wikitext parser that MediaWiki is gradually switching over to, but it has the virtue of being usable entirely outside of MediaWiki if you need to.

[1]: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Parsoid

Yes, but it implements lua by calling into the old stack, which doesn't really solve OPs problem.

Okay, yeah, I guess that Lua modules in particular are going to make everything fall down.

So to confirm what you have in mind:

That's a physical device with all computation and information local?

And you'd pay for an upfront cost of the device as well as a subscription?

What comes with the subscription? Updated data, new features? Just keeping the lights on?

Fully offline, fully searchable copies of personal data (email, tweets, calendar, etc.), English Wikipedia, IMDb, OpenStreetMap (tiles, routing, points of interest), geocoding. Fully offline and state of the art speech recognition. Fully offline voice assistant with almost complete coverage of the most common usage.

I’m working on this as well, but with a different set of content types. I want my personal search to primarily support second-brain functionality for creative work, so focusing on indexing:

- podcasts

- self-authored internet comments (Reddit, Hackernews)

- books

- articles

- code

- music

- lectures

Started it at http://rememex.org

Yes please. I live this idea.