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**gmc** @gmc@friends.chasmcity.net · Mar 14

Having lots of fun using Delta Chat. I've set up two accounts on my mail server, one for myself and one for my husband. We're both surprised at how fast it is compared to more traditional centralised chat apps like Signal. It's so cool to be able to self-host this and not rely on centralised infrastructure that is outside of my control.

Now I just need to convince everyone I know it's really cool :)

@delta

#DeltaChat #Signal #SelfHosted

**Delta Chat** @delta@chaos.social · Mar 14 *

Mar 14 *

Delta Chat @delta@chaos.social

@gmc great and welcome :) did you try out the v86 app in a chat yet? It allows to run 32bit iso images, and if you configure eth0 on multiple devices the chat members will have an end-to-end encrypted private lan (using #webxdc realtime channels). Telnet/netcat/ping etc works. This virtual Ethernet even degrades in performance if too many devices do traffic :) tip: try it better on a desktop not mobile (although should also work)

**Maki** @RandamuMaki · Mar 14

Mar 14

Maki @RandamuMaki

@delta @gmc Do you have an article about this on your site somewhere? I'm not quite sure I grok what you mean.

**Delta Chat** @delta@chaos.social · Mar 14

Mar 14

Delta Chat @delta@chaos.social

@RandamuMaki @gmc no bigger write up, but if you have a desktop:

Go to message input, attach-app and select "v86 emu" app and start it.

Inside v86 app "Choose file", select an iso (download for example https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/v3.21/releases/x86/alpine-standard-3.21.3-x86.iso) and hit "Start" button. Login as "Root", no password.

app-selector in Delta Chat with "v86emu" highlighted.

also an input field is visible where the "attach" icon is next to it.

message bubble with webxdc app "v86Emu" and a big blue "START" button.

v86 emu running alpine-linux 32 bit with typical boot-messages ending in:

localhost login: root
Welcome to Alpine!
...
localhost # ifconfig eth0 192.168.0.1
localhost #

**Maki** @RandamuMaki · Mar 14

Mar 14

Maki @RandamuMaki

@delta @gmc Weirdly enough that seems to be missing from the .deb version or I'm just ignorant. XD It's fine. It's enough to know it exists for some. :)

**Delta Chat** @delta@chaos.social · Mar 14

Mar 14

Delta Chat @delta@chaos.social

@RandamuMaki @gmc do you have a recent version like https://download.delta.chat/desktop/v1.54.2/deltachat-desktop_1.54.2_amd64.deb ?

**Maki** @RandamuMaki · Mar 14

Mar 14

Maki @RandamuMaki

@delta @gmc That one broke on Debian 12.9 (Bookworm). I can't quite figure out why.

$2025-03-14T16:24:39.241Z main/index INFO "" "Deltachat Version 1.54.2 v1.54.2 1741030462627" 2025-03-14T16:24:39.368Z main/index INFO "" "cwd /home/%USER%/.config/DeltaChat/accounts" 2025-03-14T16:24:39.382Z main/ipc CRITICAL "\nOi (file:///opt/DeltaChat/resources/app.asar/bundle_out/index.js:129:5376),\nasync sc (file:///opt/DeltaChat/resources/app.asar/bundle_out/index.js:139:208)" "Fatal: The DeltaChat Module couldn't be loaded. Please check if all dependencies for deltachat-core are installed!" {"stack":"Error: spawn ENOTDIR\n at ChildProcess.spawn (node:internal/child_process:420:11)\n at spawn (node:child_process:777:9)\n at startDeltaChat (file:///opt/DeltaChat/resources/app.asar/node_modules/@deltachat/stdio-rpc-server/index.js:73:18)\n at async Ei (file:///opt/DeltaChat/resources/app.asar/bundle_out/index.js:129:975)\n at async wt.init (file:///opt/DeltaChat/resources/app.asar/bundle_out/index.js:129:3180)\n at async Oi (file:///opt/DeltaChat/resources/app.asar/bundle_out/index.js:129:5348)\n at async sc (file:///opt/DeltaChat/resources/app.asar/bundle_out/index.js:139:208)","message":"spawn ENOTDIR","errno":-20,"code":"ENOTDIR","syscall":"spawn"}$

**rtn** @rtn@chaos.social · Mar 15

Mar 15

rtn @rtn@chaos.social

@RandamuMaki @delta @gmc I just now tried installing the latest .deb file and it works for me. I'm wondering a little bit about the path /home/%USER%/.config/DeltaChat/accounts in the beginning. What does your environment look like?