Yyup, notmuch doesn’t sync folders AFAIK since it is an indexer (a fast one), one needs mbsync and/or imapnotify to keep mail up to date (the combination might be mbsync to sync on boot, and then imapnotify to keep things up to date based on such notifications) to keep mail up to date. Another options is khard which is menat for cardav contacts just as khal is meant for caldav calendar… mutt-ics sounds great for ics calendar invitations, which I sometimes get from non family and non organization parties, otherwise I receive caldav ones, which I’d like to integrate with the caldav calendar so it syncs, perhaps mutt-ics handles that as well, first time reading about it, :)

Many thanks for answering !

how does khal integrate with neomutt for received invitations? khard works pretty well AFAIK with neomutt. Also, have you tried alot (notmuch + afew + alot + …)? It sounds alot integrates much better than neomutt with notmuch, which in turn integrates much more better than mutt…

Please define suckless. See on under suckless.org one can find rocking software, meaning suckless alternatives not developed/maintained by them, and on the editors section I see:

• acme - Rob Pike’s framing text editor for Plan 9. Included in plan9port.
• ed - ED IS THE STANDARD TEXT EDITOR!
• ired - A minimalist hexadecimal editor and bindiffer for p9, w32 and *nix.
• mg - A portable version of mg.
• mle - A small, flexible console text editor.
• nano - A pico clone - this is small simple code and easy to use.
• neatvi - A minimal vi implementation supporting bidirectional UTF-8
• nextvi - A continuation of neatvi development with more features.
• nvi - A small, multiple file vi-alike.
• micro - A terminal text editor, written in go with common key bindings like ctrl-c to copy and ctrl-v to paste.
• sam - An editor by Rob Pike with inspiration from ed.
• sim - The sim text editor. Based on vim and sam.
• traditional vi - A fixed version of the original vi.
• vim (With the GUI, use :set go+=c to kill popup dialogs). It can be compiled to be as minimal as possible (see vim-tiny in Debian repos).
• vis - A modern, legacy free, simple yet efficient vim-like editor.
• wily - An acme clone for POSIX.

That said, also note there’s an emacs-nox package available in most distros, which only includes the editor able to run on a terminal emulator, if emacs OS is too much. And can you share URLs justifying why vim is a big security hole? BTW I don’t see neovim as part of the suckless.org/rocks software. What is suckless depends a lot about what one might consider it to be, even though there might be some common characteristics that can be recognized as not good such as bloated, too big code base and so on.

Not only those, it was google removing support for extractors, knowing that would affect frontends, particularly yt-dlp, and of course they had to react. BTW, libretube, what I prefer from f-droid was also affected. See this yt-dlp issue which was already fixed with a commit and the immediate release they provided. I grabbed the yt-dlp fix on artix Today and the libretube fix on f-droid Today as well.

I believe all frontends got affected (attacked?) in pretty similar ways…

artix, and honorific mentions to parabola and hyperbola (hyperbola is moving towards becoming a gnu + kopenbsd thing, like there was an attempt for a debian gnu + kfreebsd effort though this one got dropped)

• terminal: profanity (really cool, it became what I regularly use, no audio/video calls though in which case a gui like dino can be used, syncing between the two)
• gui: dino (there’s a fork called dinox)
• android: conversations (from f-droid)

Yup, I realized community.xmpp.net is dead, and sadly it’s the only profanity specific community, :(

Ohh, I’ve always written to myself for things I want to sync and prefer to encrypted while syncing. It seemed natural to me, since all chat mechanisms I’ve used support writing to myself. But perhaps that notion is not so natural as I believe.

Many thanks then !

It depends on your preferences of course. Notmuch offers a way fast indexer you can’t get with traditional gui applications, but by itself it’s not pretty useful, however the integration with other tools makes it really powerful, with afew you get your personal tagging when messages arrive (filters), with alot you just get the email frontend. If you like the terminal experience, then you’d know you need something extra for smtp (writing emails) and there you have for example msmtp. It’s a matter of choice. I mentioned notmuch since the traditional approach to the terminal is plain neomutt, but there are alternatives. isync (mbsync) actually interacts well with neomutt but it also does it with notmuch, and neomutt can be used as a frontend for notmuch as well. A matter of choices.

The thing with solutions like thunderbird is that you have to adhere to their design decisions. For example I don’t like their librnp implementation, and I had to create alpm hooks on artix to keep updating such library with sequoia-octopus-librnp, not because I like rust (I don’t dislike it either), but because at least I can keep just one keyring, and thunderbird when not having a master password (the default) keeps its keyring unencrypted, and I pretty much see no reason not to use gnupg. So I decided I better kept using gnupg’s keyring and stuff. Integrating different tools designed for specific purposes you have more freedom of choice. At any rate that’s how unix was conceived, and you can choose to do it that way if you want.

Cool, it never came back to arch/artix, however I see it on aur. I actually don’t use gui for mpd, I use ncmpcpp, but good to know it has quite good gui frontend. ario is good as well, particularly if not much into Qt apps.

https://grapheneos.org/usage#sandboxed-google-play

I don’t know if your complain about serxng is something you’ll eventually get with 4get. Whatever works at any time. See google and other search engines had been playing awful to searxng. At some point google will notice 4get instances and will take on them as well. On searx[ng] on the side one can see what has been suspended, denied, timed out, etc.

Time wise, 4get allows for only 1 engine at a time. searx[ng] allows for several no wonders it can take time. BTW the user can choose any of the engines per search they want. That of course can take more time. The point is that right now all search engines have taken it on searx[ng], and options are welcome. Self hosting is working better maybe because the search engines don’t feel threaten by it.

The good thing is to have alternatives.

BTW, I thought google found the way to finally get rid of invidio, but it seems there are a couple of instances still working. Good !

DeGoogle doesn’t make sense if keeping google services and google play (this provides services any ways). For example grapheneOS as best as it is for security is not a DeGoogle experience. calyxOS would have been an option but it’s currently out of maintenance. LineageOS with f-droid basic, apkupdater (apkpure mirror) if needing proprietary stuff and maybe aurora store if apkpure doesn’t find something or you distrust it (it’ll be connecting to google play), and for them, if needing google push notifications (most of them do) and unavoidable services then microG.

Some FLOSS apps requiring push notifications allow to use unified push btw, like jami and davdroid (davx5), molly (signal client, though I no longer use signal), so no need for google push notifications, and for email imap has supported it’s own push notifications mechanism for way long (fairemail, thunderbird, etc). It’s on proprietary apps which mostly that’s not the case… Installing from official f-droid I believe gets rid of proprietary google stuff, including dependencies on google services library…

cantata is no longer maintained AFAIK, but as mentioned there are other clients such as ario, which on arch/artix it is build on gtk3, not gtk2

How about isync + notmuch + afew + alot + msmtp? gpg decryption not directly supported but using alot’s pipeto it can be used to decrypt messages. As using notmuch as indexer it’s flow is pretty similar/compatible to/with gmail.

agreed, I though I ammended my original post about it.

Not specific to grapheneos, and also battery friendly on LOS is localsend, and on gnu+linux I use instead localsend-go since it offers a CLI (what I use) and a rudimentary TUI which is missing some functionality but good enough (I prefer using it as CLI). But localsend also includes a windows app BTW. On gnu+linux some prefer kdeconnect, but I find it more battery intensive than localsend on the phone, and the extra functionality is not what I expected, like I originally guessed I could write sms from a gnu+linux box, or read past one, and that’s not what sms control means.

Don’t these alternatives work on grapheneos for some reason?

Flatpak’s use of bubblewrap (it comes from flatpak but then it became its own project) is not a good example, see:

https://madaidans-insecurities.github.io/linux.html#flatpak

But in general this is true. I talked out of memory, but firejail given its suid way is considered insecure (possible privilege escalation), that’s right

apparmor comes with several profiles, and if in your distro it doesn’t include one for librewolf, you can use the firefox one. And if there’s no available one and you would be interested in combine it with firejail then most probably firejail will come with with a profile for firefox or librewolf and usually with support for apparmor. Regardless of the distros, the arch wiki can guide you with apparmor and firejail. I recommend becoming familiar with both. Another option if there’s no profile on your distro is to look into another distro’s profile. ubuntu used include some software with apparmor out of the box so perhaps it’s a good source of profiles…

Also in this same community there’s an old post precisely about what you’re asking for, though it’s a bit dated, you may want to scroll for some time until getting to it.

Edit:

Firejail is insecure, my bad. Better to use bubblewrap (I didn’t know about bubblejail). The thing is that firejail offers profiles combined with apparmor which might have solved the lack of apparmor profiles. For my personal purposes I hope to take a look at bubblejail to have an easier way to do sandboxing. You can see the arch wiki bubblewrap examples to notice how bubblewrap doesn’t help with apparmor profiles though. According to the arch wiki for bubblejail or the GH page for bubblejail profiles are used and can easily be created, however I have no idea of the interaction with apparmor, and if as with firejail such profiles include apparmor stuff, but intuitively I guess it doesn’t.

Going back to apparmor, which is MAC enforcement, if no profiles available on your distro for librewolf neither firefox, then looking at other distros is OK, and also one can create profiles as well as one can also modify existent or available ones. See for example the arch wiki for apparmor.

If you want to keep using google playstore and services, you no longer will be able to use f-droid, whether google or any aosp rom. grapheneOS claims it won’t be affected given their sandboxed google play and services. Though I’m not sure if eventually google would come up with a counter measure or it won’t ever care. They want to enforce that if anyone uses their proprietary stuff the apps interacting with it must be from register developers, which automatically exclude any libre/free app storage on which developers don’t want to register to google. GrepheneOS being the exception.

If you use microG with any custom rom, I guess that might work through fake registrations, but can’t be sure. But any custom rom without google play and services is supposed to be ok with f-droid. The thing is that google knows most if not all users need one app that depends on their stuff, perhaps bank apps, payment apps, and so on…

Hmm, youtube-dl? I believe it’s no longer the one to use, it’s yt-dlp, and mpv has support yt-dlp for quite some time, but it could be any player as long as it supports yt-dlp. What I’ve noticed is that nothing gets as fast to fix these YT issues than yt-dlp. It’s working fine for me on Artix for quite some time. And unless wanting ton use a browser, that’s what freetube has been documenting every time receiving related bugs. See for example:

https://github.com/FreeTubeApp/FreeTube/issues/8083#issuecomment-3326565693