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  • I usually don’t watch his stuff.

    And it seems you didn’t watch this video fully either, or you weren’t paying attention. Muta’s an idiot and a tool who routinely masks inability to do anything with drama… Because he’s not very good at any of it.

    He doesn’t dig into the reasons for any of his issues and readily admits that he just wants it done for him “I just want things to work”

    The real problem with this post is you! Coming here casting this as some fundamental problem with Linux and posting it. Why bother?



  • So you are asking about something that seems simple, but is actually many different components working together. Apple and google have really made this integrated for a long time.

    What you want is:

    • caldav/cardav server (radicale is good)
    • integration into your email client (Thunderbird can do this)
    • share-able webDAV service
    • some auth in front of this

    I’ve left out all the plumbing needed to either support your access to this, or provide secure integration with a 3rd party email service.

    This is a hard problem to solve for self-hosting. I have a self-hosted radicale instance and I get around the inter-connectivity by simply exporting ICS files and sending them to folks. Updating meeting times, setting calendar sharing is all very difficult because of above.


  • It is fragmented.

    The PostMarketOS community is active, but more importantly, there is a ton of wiki info not only on installing, but figuring out drivers, info on partition slots, etc. Armbian is another place to read.

    The other thing to learn about is the DEs, specifically phosh, gnome mobile, plasma mobile, xmso, lomiri, etc. They all behave differently, so you’ll want to check out each one to see if you lean more one way or the other.

    Good luck. May your journey be better than mine.


  • I haven’t found one yet. My workflow is to use nicotine+ to find flac music, convert to 256bit opus, properly tag with Picard, rsync with my Navidrome library and trigger a scan. It’s clean for me and lots of it is scripted, but that wouldn’t work for everyone.

    Radarr and Sonarr work because the workflow of show -> season -> S01E01.Title.extension (even simpler for movies) is well known and accepted as more or less a standard for organizing video media.

    Music, on the other hand, is very individual. Some like strict folder organization, others are particular about naming conventions, others are picky about tags, there is no standard for handling playlists, off-beat, rare, or bootleg music is enjoyed by some, some like compilation albums, etc.

    If you look at the complaints for lidarr, most of the issues stem from folks not fitting lidarr into their workflow, which is totally valid, but not something the Lidarr devs could do anything about.

    Ultimately, Lidarr failed because metadata fetching became onerous to maintain.





  • Honestly, incus.

    I know it’s not strictly a utility, but holy cow, Stephane Graber and his team have put the work into that product, such that anything you can do in the ui can be done in the CLI, and more.

    Tab completion entries for all the resource types (storage, instances, image repos, etc), help entries for everything, it brings a tear to the eye.

    I once thought it was cool to have standardised man entries, but even better is context-sensitive --help entries that work well. Almost all the discovery I’ve made using incus, I’ve made using the commands themselves.

    It’s a real testament to how putting in the documentation work might be tedious, but it is a boon to both users and devs.