Captain’s log:
I finally got manually approved. Seems like a reasonable anti-spam measure. I’ve sent out an email and setup Nextcloud in Gnome Online Accounts. Surprisingly, I have not been asked for payment yet… Oh, I see why they get spam now.
Anyway, I learned that if you install Gnome Contacts via flatpak instead of pacman, you’ll be missing the evolution-data-server dependency and your contacts will not sync. So, pacman -S evolution-data-server fixed that for me. (WebDAV files worked fine.)
However even after fixing that, I also had some other weird behavior where Contacts and Calendar wouldn’t show up. I restarted my computer, installed Endeavour (gnome todo) from Flathub (seemingly unrelated action) and then magically my contact, calendar, and task syncing started working… 🤷 Yay!
While the webdav mount in Nautilus does technically work, it’s extremely slow. I wasn’t able to open a video from the nextcloud folder. It caused the video app to hang. However, moving the file from the mount to my downloads folder worked fine. It took a while, but it transferred fine. (I’m far away and the servers are probably not beefy.)
The first bug was definitely me, but additionally, not sure if nubo’s management of nextcloud is also a little buggy. The website definitely isn’t the fastest. IDK. Maybe it’s fine.
There is this kinda weird message in the settings page, it makes me wonder if they’re running a really old version of nextcloud:
This community release of Nextcloud is unsupported and instant notifications are unavailable.
On the homepage they list: “Nubo, that’s a subscription of €2.5 per month for 5 GB (current price).” However now that I’m here I’m being quoted €2.5 per month for 2 GB or €3.5 without shares for 2 GB.
Storage is broken up into “mail” and “cloud” storage. You can grow or shrink each type individually. Smallest size is 1 GB.
I did not currently elect to buy shares, but it seems like I’m still able to do that if I change my mind.
I also did not bring my own custom domain to nubo.coop. But again, it looks like I can still do that if I change my mind. I can bring my own or buy one from them. I believe they get it from Gandi.net?
They have a little documentation in English and I was able to communicate with staff in English via email, but Français and Nederlands are better supported. Their support forum is Français and Nederlands only. The nextcloud webui is definitely fully translated to English though.
If it matters, I’m from the US.
For my usecase, I’m not looking for maximum possible security or privacy. Actually, I care more about IMAP/POP3/WebDAV. So nubo.coop is definitely checking a lot of boxes for me.
I’m still wondering how stable these guys are and how long they’ll be around. Looks like they publicly launched nubo in 2022, wow so they’re 3 years old. Also, they’ve said they need to reach 2,000 users to be financially sustainable, but they currently have 1044 shareholders and 748 subscriptions. So they could shutdown.
OK, gotta use them for a few months now. If they’re stable enough, then I’m planning on moving my custom email domain to them. I’ll probably buy some shares later as well. Feel free to ask any questions.
See ya later.
I recently brought over some ideas from VanillaOS over to my Arch install.
That gives me like 50% (idk fake number) of the features from VanillaOS, but I get to keep control over my system.
Not that I ever had any problems with native
pacmaninstalls though… so… not sure how much benefit I’m really getting from doing this. I guess mypacman -Syucommand runs faster now. That’s something…