paequ2

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[–] paequ2 9 points 17 hours ago (3 children)

I recently brought over some ideas from VanillaOS over to my Arch install.

  1. Install as much as possible via flatpak
  2. Install a bunch of other stuff in distrobox (with podman backend)

That gives me like 50% (idk fake number) of the features from VanillaOS, but I get to keep control over my system.

Not that I ever had any problems with native pacman installs though... so... not sure how much benefit I'm really getting from doing this. I guess my pacman -Syu command runs faster now. That's something...

[–] paequ2 2 points 1 day ago

Taken 3, Sonic 3.

Started watching Gone in 60 Seconds.

[–] paequ2 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Captain's log:

I finally got manually approved. Seems like a reasonable anti-spam measure. I've sent out an email and setup Nextcloud in Gnome Online Accounts. Surprisingly, I have not been asked for payment yet... Oh, I see why they get spam now.

Anyway, I learned that if you install Gnome Contacts via flatpak instead of pacman, you'll be missing the evolution-data-server dependency and your contacts will not sync. So, pacman -S evolution-data-server fixed that for me. (WebDAV files worked fine.)

However even after fixing that, I also had some other weird behavior where Contacts and Calendar wouldn't show up. I restarted my computer, installed Endeavour (gnome todo) from Flathub (seemingly unrelated action) and then magically my contact, calendar, and task syncing started working... 🤷 Yay!

While the webdav mount in Nautilus does technically work, it's extremely slow. I wasn't able to open a video from the nextcloud folder. It caused the video app to hang. However, moving the file from the mount to my downloads folder worked fine. It took a while, but it transferred fine. (I'm far away and the servers are probably not beefy.)

The first bug was definitely me, but additionally, not sure if nubo's management of nextcloud is also a little buggy. The website definitely isn't the fastest. IDK. Maybe it's fine.

There is this kinda weird message in the settings page, it makes me wonder if they're running a really old version of nextcloud:

This community release of Nextcloud is unsupported and instant notifications are unavailable.

On the homepage they list: "Nubo, that’s a subscription of €2.5 per month for 5 GB (current price)." However now that I'm here I'm being quoted €2.5 per month for 2 GB or €3.5 without shares for 2 GB.

Storage is broken up into "mail" and "cloud" storage. You can grow or shrink each type individually. Smallest size is 1 GB.

I did not currently elect to buy shares, but it seems like I'm still able to do that if I change my mind.

I also did not bring my own custom domain to nubo.coop. But again, it looks like I can still do that if I change my mind. I can bring my own or buy one from them. I believe they get it from Gandi.net?

They have a little documentation in English and I was able to communicate with staff in English via email, but Français and Nederlands are better supported. Their support forum is Français and Nederlands only. The nextcloud webui is definitely fully translated to English though.

If it matters, I'm from the US.

For my usecase, I'm not looking for maximum possible security or privacy. Actually, I care more about IMAP/POP3/WebDAV. So nubo.coop is definitely checking a lot of boxes for me.

I'm still wondering how stable these guys are and how long they'll be around. Looks like they publicly launched nubo in 2022, wow so they're 3 years old. Also, they've said they need to reach 2,000 users to be financially sustainable, but they currently have 1044 shareholders and 748 subscriptions. So they could shutdown.

OK, gotta use them for a few months now. If they're stable enough, then I'm planning on moving my custom email domain to them. I'll probably buy some shares later as well. Feel free to ask any questions.

See ya later.

[–] paequ2 7 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (5 children)

Convenience beats owning things. 99.999% of non-techies I've talked to do not want to manage their computer or media. They don't want to learn how things work or how to fix them. The video says it, "... it took away the burden of ownership."

I can't even convince them to use my seedbox to torrent media—heck I've even offered that I'll do all the work, they just have to access Jellyfin! But, no. They prefer to pay to get access to the media now instead of messaging me, waiting for me to get the media, and then watching it.

At the same time, they'll complain that "everything is a subscription now!" I'm like bro...

[–] paequ2 4 points 3 days ago

Holy moly, I did not know this existed! Thanks! Just turned this on!

[–] paequ2 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I just sold my Framework 13 after daily driving it for a year. The HiDPI display bugs and workarounds just got too annoying.

I went back to my old Dell XPS 13 9310 and I'm loving it.

[–] paequ2 1 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Any resources you'd recommend?

[–] paequ2 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I suspect that it goes down and stays down whenever there is an app update, but I haven't confirmed it yet.

Does the plain wireguard app stay up during updates?

[–] paequ2 17 points 3 days ago (39 children)

if the cameras don’t load, open Tailscale and make sure it’s connected

I've been using Tailscale for a few months now and this is my only complaint. On Android and macOS, the Tailscale client gets randomly killed. So it's an extra thing you have to manage.

It's almost annoying enough to make me want to host my services on the actual internet....... almost... but not yet.

[–] paequ2 27 points 3 days ago (1 children)

One time, I was at a concert at a small-ish venue. I went to see a popular-ish band that I like, place was packed. The band started like 30-45 minutes late. When they finally got on stage, I happened to yell out during a brief pause, "Finally! We've been waiting forever!"

No one said anything and the show kept moving—but immediately after I yelled that the girl in front of me turned around and gave me a huge scowling look, like she was super embarrassed for me, like I had just done something really awful.

That look has stuck with me ever since.

[–] paequ2 5 points 4 days ago (1 children)

OK! Fuggit. I'll write my own review... with blackjack.

I signed up. No credit card necessary so far, but also my account is half-activated. Someone has to manually approve me, which fine. Seems like an anti-spam measure. I'll report back more later.

[–] paequ2 1 points 5 days ago

Oh, wow. Didn't realize Tuta didn't work with IMAP/POP/SMTP. https://tuta.com/support/howto#imap

 

Are home alarm systems worth it? I'm talking about something like ADT or Vivint, with window and door sensors, and automated police calls.

Are those monthly subscriptions worth it? Do you guys have them? Does anyone have any stories where having an alarm system made a break-in situation better? Are they just snake oil?

 

I found some thread on the Discord saying that you should

install using abroot should be the Best option

But then nobody posts how to do that...

Have any VanillaOS 2.0 Orchrid users here successfully installed Tailscale?

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submitted 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) by paequ2 to c/linux@lemmy.ml
 

I'm trying it out for the first time and reading the handbook here: https://docs.vanillaos.org/handbook/en/updates

However, I noticed the page says:

This guide is for Kinetic (22.10), not Orchid.

And when I tried running command to check for updates, I got this.

$ vso update-check
Error: unknown command "update-check" for "vso"
Run 'vso --help' for usage.
  ERROR   unknown command "update-check" for "vso"

I could wait for the normal update job to run, but I'm being impatient. :)

 

Again. From the beginning.

 

The full quote in dirty imperial units:

I live my life a quarter mile at a time. Nothing else matters: not the mortgage, not the store, not my team and all their bullshit. For those ten seconds or less, I’m free.

– The Fast and the Furious

How was this translated to metric?

 

How often does Organic Maps pull map updates from OpenStreetMap? Can I manually trigger the update or do I have to wait? Does the update happen automatically or do I have to delete the current map data I have and then redownload it?

 

I've been messing around with Magic Earth and Organic Maps recently.

I immediately noticed that when I type a home address in Magic Earth, the app can take me to the exact house on the block.

However, when I type the same home address in Organic Maps, the app can only take me to the street where the house is. It can find the exact house.

Why is this the case? I thought both Magic Earth and Organic Maps used the same map data behind the scenes...

 
 

I have pretty simple, straightforward finances. I don't need any pro features.

Does anyone have any shoutouts for their preferred tax preparation software?

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Don't do it (lemmy.today)
 
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