• 11 Posts
  • 163 Comments
Joined 2 months ago
cake
Cake day: January 21st, 2025

help-circle




  • 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. 😄




  • 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.




  • 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.









  • 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.