Taken 3, Sonic 3.

Started watching Gone in 60 Seconds.

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.

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.

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.

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

Not sure what they’re running for email, but for the other cloud services, I think they just run Nextcloud?

https://doc.nubo.coop/en/settings/linux/#cloud

As far as I know it’s telemetry off and no pocket, plus container tabs. But for the most part, it’s pretty similar (which I personally like).

Interesting! Has anyone tried this? Any reviews?

It offers:

• email
• calendar
• contacts
• cloud storage
• tasks

Interesting. Interesting. I’ve been kinda stuck on Google Keep because I don’t need a big heavy weight note taking app, but just little scraps of paper synced across different devices. Maybe Nubo tasks would be a suitable replacement!

Oh, neat! I recently switched and it’s been great!

I’ve seen the status code in a JSON response before: https://cloud.google.com/storage/docs/json_api/v1/status-codes#401-unauthorized

One reason I can think of for including it is that it may make it easier for the consumer to check the status code if it’s in the JSON. Depending on how many layers of abstraction you have, your app may not have access to the raw HTTP response.

Although, yeah you lose the single source of truth though.

Neat. I’ll have to check this out as well. Thanks!

One thing I’m doing differently in Arch this time is I’m trying out installing as many things as possible as flatpaks. I’ve successfully ignored them until now. Surprisingly, a lot of my apps are already packaged as flatpaks.

The other thing I’m borrowing is distrobox+podman. I didn’t know about that before. This seems useful for dev environments.

flatpaks + distrobox seem to be at least 50% of VanillaOS. So I’m borrowing those and then I get to keep the simple, mutable OS with Arch.

That being said, I’ve never had a problem with pacman breaking my system, so I don’t see major value in doing this… other than… it’s helping me procrastinate! I should be doing real work right now. 😄

Oh’laville: https://www.youtube.com/@Ohlaville

Ooooh, ok. Missed that.

Hi, it isn’t possible to install Tailscale inside the VSO container since it needs to interface with the host, for this case, I would suggest using a custom image following this template and rebase to it using ABRoot -> https://github.com/Vanilla-OS/custom-image.

Aw, dang. ok.

I’m like 12 hours in. It’s not going too well right now… the biggest con is that there is basically no documentation for Orchrid…

My use case: I have Obsidian notes synced with Syncthing to a server only accessible via Tailscale. I was able to get Syncthing working by installing Syncthing GTK from Flathub (a workaround, I couldn’t figure out how to install Syncthing the normal way). But I’m still out of luck because I can’t reach the server.

The only way to install Tailscale is via a custom image it seems. :(

The other thing I haven’t figured out is if it’s possible to use wl-copy to copy text from a terminal. The terminal app basically opens into a container. It seems like wl-copy can’t break out of the container and affect the host clipboard.

The container/isolation stuff seems kewl in theory, but so far I’m finding it pretty annoying.

I’m experimenting with this because I was wondering if VanillaOS would be a good fit for my parents, which actually, it might be. They have very basic needs. All their apps are on Flathub. But for me… I think I may just go back to Arch.

You mean the post that talks about the successful install that doesn’t run? 😅

this post covers the successful install of tailscale on VanillaOS, however I cannot get it to run.

Also, that’s from 2 years ago on VanillaOS Kinetic, not Orchrid. 😢

Oh, wait. Derp. Sorry. I need to RTFM.

$ vso sys 
Execute system commands, such as upgrading the system

Usage:
  vso sys [command]

Aliases:
  sys, sys-upgrade

Available Commands:
  check       Check for system updates
  upgrade     Execute system commands, such as upgrading the system

Flags:
  -h, --help   help for sys

Use "vso sys [command] --help" for more information about a command.

The command got renamed.

Honestly, each parent should have 6 mo of paid leave.

Heck yes. 12 weeks is nothing. The baby still needs a ton of help at this stage.

We have a temporary glitch with GitHub

The title is a little clickbaity. Seems like it’s a transient GitHub issue.

Most men are hard working and want to support their families

… which is exactly why you should take paternity leave and support your family, instead of abandoning them for 8 hours a day at work. I’d feel like a total asshole if I just took off and said, “Good luck with the baby, honey. I’m gonna go hang out with my friends at work.”