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.

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What state are you from? In California, we learned Mexican Spanish. My teachers very briefly mentioned vos/vosotros, but we never spent any time on those conjugations and were never tested on them.

Although… now that you mention it… maybe the textbook was for Iberian Spanish… I definitely remember the teacher going over vocabulary, getting to the word “coger”, and then 90% of the class busting up laughing, while the other 10% was confused! 😂

Maybe we did have Iberian Spanish textbooks, but since most people in my town were Mexican, we learned Mexican Spanish from the teacher using an Iberian Spanish textbook?..

Would this cause a problem? I’m assuming this would be deserialized to the same value, no?

Maybe you could go to:

Settings > Developer Settings > Personal Access Tokens > Tokens (Classic)

And then create a new token there.

Then you should be able to clone a private repo as long as you have git installed.

When you git clone your private repo, git will ask for your username, enter that. Then it’s gonna ask for your password. Don’t enter your GitHub password. Enter your token.

Clone should work.

how concerned you quickly become with all types of water

LOL, yes! 99% of my problems these last 5 years have been related to water. It’s really made me want to learn more about plumbing.

Thankfully, Mexico is probably safe due to racism. They thought about stealing all of Mexico when the US invaded in 1846, but decided not to because all the brown people.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_of_Mexico_Movement

On the other hand, Canada…

Ah, right. Thank you for your service. 🫡

It’s been pretty painless to switch to https://www.waterfox.net/ on desktop. There’s also a Waterfox app for Android.

Seedboxes?

Oooooooh. Kagi added this lens! Since you can add custom lenses, I thought I added this (and forgot) to my own account. Cool!

yay simplifies the AUR installation

Simple to me means not having to install some random extra tool and just using pacman like normal. That’s why I grumble.

I like package managers just fine. I don’t want to have to have a plurality of software management tools.

Same. I grumble when I have to install things through the AUR. I’d prefer if it was in the official repos.

can continue to blissfully ignore

That’s what I’ve been doing. I haven’t run into a situation where I’ve needed to mess with Flatpak. 🤷 Curious to hear other folk’s experiences though.

Also for your consideration, Flatpak seems to be mainly used for desktop GUI apps. You’ll still need your regular package manager to install CLIs. So… if you wanna keep your software management tools to a minimum…

At one point in my career I cared about what I did and who I worked for I felt pride over my product and my team, and all I feel now is shame to be associated with my company, I feel disgusted with myself that I work not for my customers but for shareholder value.

This tracks with my experience here as well.

keep my job and not get layed off.

For me, it seems like falling in line and kissing the ring is more important than showing ability, if you want to avoid being laid off. At a previous job, I got laid off before my very noob coworker who took months to complete PRs because I wouldn’t shut my mouth about RTO.

a meritocracy

🌎🧑‍🚀🔫🧑‍🚀 Never has been.