fiddlestix

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[–] fiddlestix 1 points 1 year ago

Yep. It says they are a member of my network. But no dice.

[–] fiddlestix 2 points 1 year ago

I'm not that tech savvy, and iDrive is cheap 🤣

[–] fiddlestix 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah I think it works on Fedora ok. I spoke to customer service, but they told me I was out of luck with Nixos.

[–] fiddlestix 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Oh cool. For some bizarre reason iDrive ask you to email them to get the link for the scripts. But you can get them here: https://www.idrive.com/online-backup-linux-download So just download the scripts, install Distrobox, and pull the Debian 12 image. Then enter the Distrobox Debian and navigate to the scripts. Change the permissions (chmod a+x *.pl) and execute the account_settings.pl script. I think I got an error about perl, but I just installed it myself (sudo apt install perl) and carried on. I think I might have had another error at some point but I just ran it again and it all pulled through properly. And now my Distrobox is on my iDrive dashboard and everything works properly. Just remember that if you reboot you might need to go back into the Distrobox and execute account_settings.pl again, but because everything's already installed it will just ask you to login, and that's it - you're back online. Good luck!

[–] fiddlestix 3 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Yeah, the personal backup and sync. Sorry, I didn't think to make it clear.

[–] fiddlestix 1 points 1 year ago

The scripts are loooooooong. And the main problem for me is that Nixos doesn't use the FHS, so it's difficult to use standard .deb files.

[–] fiddlestix 0 points 1 year ago

I didn't look much into this. I think (but could very well be wrong) that it only works with their S3/E2 packages. And I wanted all the config options provided by the official scripts.

[–] fiddlestix 1 points 1 year ago

Thanks to you I have today discovered Kavita. It's excellent!

[–] fiddlestix 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Doesn't Gnome 45 have improved scaling (haven't tried it yet)?

[–] fiddlestix 1 points 1 year ago

I use Kagi and it's great. But I'd also throw in a big honourable mention for Qwant. Imo it's better than DDG. Throw in some NextDNS ad blocking and you'll practically never see ads in your search again.

[–] fiddlestix 12 points 1 year ago (21 children)

Obligatory mention of Kagi (which is actually brilliant).

[–] fiddlestix 2 points 1 year ago

That is true. I only use mine locally, so it's not a problem. Although you can remote access via Tailscale for safety. It's quicker and easier than trying to set up remote proxies etc, about which I know nothing. Tailscale took 5 mins.

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