Adventures in episode 0x819fa:

"I want my own secure cloud storage."

EASY.

  1. Get a Hetzner storage box and set up an rclone mount with sftp and crypt enabled on it on the Macbook
  2. Try to mount the same thing on OpenBSD only to realise after a lot of digging that the mount option is missing for rclone on fishlinux because of underlying FUSE implementation incompatibilites; THEREFORE do the logical thing and
  3. Ask @gyptazy really nicely for a @BoxyBSD VM running FreeBSD
  4. Figure out how to connect to it from home internet that doesn't have IPV6 (the answer is, jump host from @OpenBSDAmsOpenBSD Amsterdam for initial setup of tailscale, then once BoxyBSD VM is in the Tailnet, can ssh / mosh in from home)
  5. set up stuff on FreeBSD like doas and whatnot
  6. Finally get to a point where I can install rclone
  7. Copy over config from MacOS using tailscale file cp ( :flan_heart: tailscale)
  8. Scratch head over file permissions as usual
  9. Screw up some file system stuff as usual
  10. Finally mount the encrypted Hetzner box over rclone on the FreeBSD vm
  11. Mount the blasted thing over sshfs using @soleneSolène :flan_hacker: 's tutorials on the home box

NOTHING COULD BE SIMPLER. :flan_XD:

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