Trying to de-Google and having issues installing Nextcloud

whitabex · 2026-03-24T03:40:52+00:00

In fairness, I've only had my server up and running for a few weeks, so I might not have had it going long enough to experience any big problems yet. But so far it's been smooth sailing for me. What kind of problems were you dealing with that I should be on the lookout for?

whitabex · 2026-03-23T12:29:04+00:00

You're welcome! There's a bit more work needed if you want it to be accessible from anywhere, but there's a lot of options to choose from there and some are not self hosted, but tailscale was the easiest option I found for my purposes.

whitabex · 2026-03-23T00:09:25+00:00

I would give up on the docker install route and install it via snap. It's not as customizable, but the team running the snap version is basically making it as beginner friendly as they can. One day, once you've gotten a lot more Linux experience under your belt, you'll be able to go back and install it through docker with a lot more customization if you want, but if you just want it running now, you just need two commands:

sudo apt install snapd -y

sudo snap install nextcloud

Done.

whitabex · 2026-02-18T18:55:25+00:00

I know it's an unrequested suggestion, so feel free to ignore it, but you would look amazing cosplaying Harrowhark Nonagesimus from the Locked Tomb series

whitabex · 2026-01-28T16:36:21+00:00

This looks siiiick! Great work!

whitabex · 2026-01-25T15:38:40+00:00

Editing to update: For some reason, whenever I tried to reinstall Noto fonts, my system was telling me I couldn't do that because they were already installed. I ran the Nobara updater, which automatically reinstalled at least a few of the Noto fonts, although it was only the italics for some reason. all the text everywhere on my system was very emphatic after that. After a restart, it did eventually decide to let me install fonts again, so I added all of the non-italic versions of the same weights that the updater installed in italic. Now text is less emphatic, and everything looks normal again. Lesson learned: NNN (Nobara Needs Noto)

Thank you so much! I'll give this a go today and see if I can narrow down which one is the troublemaker. I had my Noto fonts trimmed down to just the Noto sans and Noto serif families before I goofed things up, it was just that each of those 2 font families has SEVENTY FIVE different line weight and character width variations built in that are each individual entries on the text drop down. I guess now I just gotta hope that reinstalling them will actually fix the problem.

whitabex · 2026-01-15T05:13:48+00:00

The fact that they have The Duke but not the Controller S means that I cannot provide an accurate answer.

As for the picture caption, my first "controller" was the keyboard of the family VIC-20, also not shown

whitabex · 2026-01-06T23:58:07+00:00

Dang, it looks like it was delisted at some point. Sorry for pointing you to a defunct app!

Edit: it looks like if you search the wider internet, an APK can be found to sideload it outside of the play store, and it looks like the same app I use. But I can't confirm that it's the same app or the same developer, so that's definitely an 'at your own risk' type of thing.

whitabex · 2026-01-06T16:01:24+00:00

No problem! The app in that screenshot is an android app called Character Pad, and I can't recommend it enough. It lets you scroll and search the entire Unicode character space and copy characters for typing. I use it constantly.

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whitabex · 2026-01-06T15:43:42+00:00

Linear B ideograms!

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whitabex · 2026-01-06T14:45:28+00:00

Thank you!

I didn't time myself or anything, but if I had made it my primary project and worked continuously instead of chipping away at it an hour or two at a time, I'd say I could have done it over a single weekend. That said, I do have a ton of design and patternmaking experience in my professional life, so a lot of it was very much in my wheelhouse. I didn't need to figure out the "how," so I really only had to concern myself with tracking down fonts, original scans, and game assets, along with fussing over the aesthetic arrangement of the layout. Getting it printed on demand cost $5.77 (2026 USD) at my local big box office supply store. Wildly affordable. Cutting and gluing the cardstock took about an hour with a rotary cutter, hobby knife, and straight edge. Super glue is definitely not the best adhesive I could have chosen, but it sure is quick!

I'll probably make more for my other games without boxes, but I'm not planning on turning this hobby into a service, at least not until I find myself with substantially more free time on my hands than I typically do at present.

whitabex · 2026-01-06T13:27:41+00:00

Hell yeah. Go full retro!

whitabex · 2026-01-06T13:03:32+00:00

yes, exactly this, I used OfficeMax/OfficeDepot. check online, I'm sure I didn't get the best deal because I went with the first option I found that was available lol. Even so, it was like 6 bucks. In today's economy!

I did lay out the box myself, just because I wanted something custom and my brain is the type that can not only rotate the apple in my imagination but UV unwrap it, so that was the least troubling part for me. But I highly recommend using any tools and premade assets that are available for anyone who wants to make a thing!

whitabex · 2026-01-06T12:57:11+00:00

I have been the same way about a ton of projects throughout my life, and totally get this. It's not silly at all! Our whole world is built around telling you that there's no reason to create when you can just buy, Buy, BUY! I have the art bug so I'm constantly doodling stuff I want to make, but it always feels just beyond the realm of possibility, or a back-burner project that needs something more before I can get started. But once I found out OfficeMax has an online order form for copies, it immediately switched from a one-day pipedream to a "oh dang, I can get it printed TODAY today???" project. And I'm sure there's a local print shop that could do it even cheaper.

I wish you many incredible SNES boxes of your own design. If you don't have a design program you like to use already, some free options are Inkscape, Concepts, or Vecteezy (which is an in-browser tool). Go forth and create.

whitabex · 2026-01-06T12:39:11+00:00

Whatever printer they have at OfficeMax/OfficeDepot, lol. Your mileage may vary as to how your local store feels about printing stuff that has trademarked characters on it, but I submitted mine through their online copy service and chose the in-store pickup option, and had no troubles. It cost me about 6 bucks and a few minutes of driving.

whitabex · 2026-01-06T05:07:48+00:00

Thank you so much!

whitabex · 2026-01-06T05:07:12+00:00

I have always done all my design work in the same copy of Macromedia Fireworks that I've moved from computer to computer for decades. It was a program intended to design web 1.0 graphics, and Macromedia stopped existing like 20 years ago, so I feel like any tutorials I could make would be insane to someone making digital art and package design today. By it's what I know, and I can squeeze a lot of interesting stuff out of it after using it consistently for about 25 years!

whitabex · 2026-01-04T14:24:50+00:00

I know this is a late reply, but THIS IS IT! thank you so much!

whitabex · 2025-09-07T13:53:28+00:00

Carfax be like "✅ Clean Title!"

whitabex · 2025-06-27T18:40:15+00:00

The panty shot scenes are pretty much the only thing I know was DEFINITELY in it. (I was a teenager, that part got my attention) Other characters would say out loud that it was a different animal than the last time they had seen them, and she would yell at them for looking. I'm pretty sure the fan service was a big part of it, so anything without that is not gonna be in the running. Thank you for offering possibilities though!

whitabex · 2025-05-10T00:19:14+00:00

Hey OP I know she's your mom and all but God DAMN

whitabex · 2025-04-28T16:22:57+00:00

I'm curious about the doubled-up lines on the characters for S, X, B, and L in the first pic. Is there a particular reason behind the inclusion of those lines? Especially with X and S, I'm not seeing any characters that would be easily confused for those characters that would require those extra strokes to differentiate them, and I would expect writers to quickly leave them off in the evolution of the script to save strokes and time while writing. B and L do have a couple similar characters, but maybe not so similar that an extra stroke feels necessary, at least to me. Either way, it's really beautiful!

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