In happy tinkering news, I spent a few more minutes with my vdirsyncer, mutt, khal, and khard setup (from https://neilzone.co.uk/2024/12/using-khal-and-khard-to-access-appointments-and-contacts-synced-from-a-nextcloud-caldavcardav-server-using-vdirsyncer/).

I have added tab auto-complete of addresses from khard from within mutt's compose screen, and I can now create appointments from within khard (even if I don't understand how adding attendees works (if at all) yet).

I'm struggling to import .ics from mutt into khal, but one step at a time.

anybody got #vdirsyncer running on their #pinephone with #plasmamobile I'd love to try but I am quite stupid.

Just found carl, a modern version of cal (the unix calendar utility that prints a tabular view of months).

What stands out for me here is the ability to highlight events from calendar files.

This is superb in conjunction with vdirsyncer, which I’ve been using for a long time for exactly the purpose of having a local directory of .ics files for each of my Nextcloud DAV calendars.

https://github.com/b1rger/carl

Also featured in my link log: https://blog.jutty.dev/links

Who thought it was a good idea to let #vdirsyncer print "uploading item [id] to [name of local calendar]" when it's actually simply inserting some event from the remote side to the local one?

Imagine my anxiety when I tried to make extra sure (with read_only=true etc.) that it does NOT modify my Google Calendar while I'm setting everything up, only to then read hundreds of "uploading" messages?

(It simply always says "uploading", no matter what the destination is.)

So, my #FLOSS todo list for the next days:
- get that #Recoll plugin for #Synapse working again
- write that script to make @qownnotes use @pandoc and @libreoffice to generate a PDF booklet
- make that #iBook G4 running again and set up an usable PIM suite using #vdirsyncer, #khal, #khard and #mutt.

If I'm somewhat recreated by that time I'm gonna restart coding on #ObjGTK. But after Christmas I'm really too exhausted to get into deep work too soon.

Today I managed to install and configure
- my contacts (vdirsyncer + khard, formerly khal)
- my calendar (calcurse + calcurse-caldav. Might switch to vdirsyncer)
- my mail (offlineimap + neomutt)
- my todo txt (todo.sh)

Not happy with saving credentials in plain text :-(

But I can look into Lua (conky and awesome WM widgets) next!

Mes logiciels installés avec #pip ont mal vécu la transition de #Python de la 3.8 à la 3.9. :/

#vdirsyncer ne fonctionne plus, ainsi que #md2pdf. Pour mon usage, ça pique un peu.

Alright, #TechnicalJiggeryPokery conundrum of the moment:

Two Debian machines, both running stable.

On one, #vdirsyncer and #khal work perfectly.

The other crashes with errors about xdg.basedirectory.

I'm barely capable of understanding the problem, but I think it has to be something garbled up with Python.

Anyone know of either a fix, or a way to cleanly get back to a known good configuration?

I'm on the verge of reinstalling the misbehaving bix because I can't figure out what went wrong.

Kennt jemand ne gute alternative zu Baikal das nicht Nextcloud/Owncloud ist um Adressen und Kontakte zu verwalten? Brauche keine Weboberfläche will es nut mit sem Handy und vdirsyner synchronisieren . Baikal wird von #vdirsyncer über SSL nicht mehr richtig unterstützt.