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There are plenty of good alternatives for calendar/contact sync servers , but I haven't seen any good, native clients that work on modern BSD (or Linux) desktops . Both Evolution and Thunderbird tend to be slow, clunky, glitchy, generally doing pretty poorly when put side-by-side with e.g. the built-in macOS counterparts. I'm trying to use an OpenBSD laptop in parallel with a macOS desktop, and while it's perfect for…
1) can't have something like a /var mounted on iscsi. The Rd kernel doesn't support it. 2) help for DEs is patchy. In my example XFCE behaves differently on major linux distributions than mine. Intellij too is slightly different. 3) there are some bugs in upstream software which as an OpenBSD user are simply unacceptable to me. I had to disable compositing. 4) things like Bluetooth for some people (not me) may be a deal breaker. Bluetooth sound works perfectly. 5) if you want to use myfavsoftware X, you may have it in ports. But the reason you want to use it relies on mynotfavsoftware Y which may not be available on OpenBSD. 6) if you use OpenBSD you will become a cynic because of bad documentation most places elsewhere. I mean this seriously, I view rest of the world as moving on to just getting things done without giving thought to underlying correctness. Maybe it's a good thing, maybe not.
That said: 1) it is the easiest thing to operate. Like really easy. You know which file is doing what, when. 2) there are no gotchas. This is a very predictable and consistent system. 3) if it's not there in documentation, you don't have to ask "how to x", be rest assured if it's not there in the docs, it is not available, else it'd have been there. 4) contrary to public opinion, very very helpful community.
I think I am a fanboy. Previously have used (rev chronological order) - pop!os, enso OS, windows 10, snow leopard (another brilliant one), freebsd for a month, Ubuntu, redhat 5, XP, 2000, NT 4, 3.11. By far OpenBSD is something I have loved the most.
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Soy as in "soyftware". I've changed this to bloated as apparently some people think I'm some radicalised alt-right 4chan user for using this term.
> Soy as in "soyftware" And that's supposed to mean what?
“soy infested calendar products” What does that mean?
“soy” = “badness” + right-wing culture war group identity signalling.
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I would be super interested to read a more detailed how-to on this. I use the crap out of Syncthing (although on iOS -- my daily mobile driver-- it is fairly limited what you can do with it).
I used syncthing until I switched to iOS and found it unworkable due to how bad the clients were for iOS. Nextcloud is what I ended up using; you get file sync and contact/calendaring in one, and you can also use it to share files "externally" if need be, even flip on the chat module and use it to video-conference instead of zoom if you want. I'm using sqlite as the backing database mostly because I'm a single user a…
I switched to Migadu for my primary email which includes CalDav and CardDav. I also run Hydroxide in my K8s cluster for Protonmail syncing on Apple Mail -- I could also switch to that for CalDav and CardDav if I wanted to.
There isn't much I actually need Syncthing for on my phone nowadays. Even if I was back on Android I can't think of much I would need it for -- for my workflows.
> Nextcloud is what I ended up using
Nextcloud has always been one of those projects I appreciate so much but find so bloatey for me as a single user and always end up getting rid of shortly after I install it. I feel like if I had a team of users (work, friends or family) who fully committed to using it then I would love it.
Btw, none of this is meant as a criticism to your setup -- it sounds perfect!
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I used syncthing until I switched to iOS and found it unworkable due to how bad the clients were for iOS. Nextcloud is what I ended up using; you get file sync and contact/calendaring in one, and you can also use it to share files "externally" if need be, even flip on the chat module and use it to video-conference instead of zoom if you want. I'm using sqlite as the backing database mostly because I'm a single user a…
Yeah, for me I primarily use Syncthing just for syncing between servers and computer. I switched to Migadu for my primary email which includes CalDav and CardDav. I also run Hydroxide in my K8s cluster for Protonmail syncing on Apple Mail -- I could also switch to that for CalDav and CardDav if I wanted to. There isn't much I actually need Syncthing for on my phone nowadays. Even if I was back on Android I can't thin…
https://www.billdietrich.me/SecureCommunication.html?expanda...
There's also instructions about caldav only on the migadu site here:
There are plenty of good alternatives for calendar/contact sync servers , but I haven't seen any good, native clients that work on modern BSD (or Linux) desktops . Both Evolution and Thunderbird tend to be slow, clunky, glitchy, generally doing pretty poorly when put side-by-side with e.g. the built-in macOS counterparts. I'm trying to use an OpenBSD laptop in parallel with a macOS desktop, and while it's perfect for…
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Yeah, for me I primarily use Syncthing just for syncing between servers and computer. I switched to Migadu for my primary email which includes CalDav and CardDav. I also run Hydroxide in my K8s cluster for Protonmail syncing on Apple Mail -- I could also switch to that for CalDav and CardDav if I wanted to. There isn't much I actually need Syncthing for on my phone nowadays. Even if I was back on Android I can't thin…
Where did you see the info for setting this up with Migadu? I believe they've had it as an unadvertised beta feature and the only write-up I found is this older one: https://www.billdietrich.me/SecureCommunication.html?expanda... There's also instructions about caldav only on the migadu site here: https://www.migadu.com/guides/thunderbird/
I can't remember the ports but if you point a CardDav/CalDav client at cdav.migadu.com they pick up the settings automatically. I've done this on iOS, Android, MacOS and Linux and they all seem to work perfectly for me with Migadu.