Is every totally disconnected topological group locally profinite?

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Let $G$ be a topological group which is totally disconnected. Then one point sets in $G$ are closed, and hence $G$ is Hausdorff.

On the other hand, we have a notion of a locally profinite group, a Hausdorff topological group which has a neighborhood basis of the identity consisting of open compact subgroups. A locally profinite group is obviously totally disconnected.

Is there an example of a totally disconnected topological group which is not locally profinite?

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$\mathbb{Q}$ is an example, as are the irrationals (in the guise of the group) $\mathbb{Z}^\omega$ in the product topology. Both spaces are not locally compact at any point of the space.