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@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)

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

@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.

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

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

@RandamuMaki @gmc hum, that's odd. Could you open an https://github.com/deltachat/deltachat-desktop or on https://support.delta.chat ? cheers and thanks.

@delta @gmc Won't use github since it's owned by M$ and the other support page claims @palemoon is not supported.

@palemoon @delta @gmc @Discourse The Pale Moon team and community is great. I don't blame you at all, I'll just keep calling out when sites like #Discourse are being dumb. ;)

@hiker every App allows to create anonymous chat profiles on #chatmail servers. Just hit "create profile"

@rtn @delta @gmc I obfuscated my username with %USER% before making the screenshot, that's all. Environment is fine.

@RandamuMaki @delta @gmc Ah of course. Sorry just had to check. The error message could be better there.

@treefit @delta I'm using the flatpak right now on amd64.

@RandamuMaki @delta great that this works, though @liaizon opened an issue on the desktop repo with your report and I would like to help getting it solved/closed.

Could you try to download and run https://github.com/chatmail/core/releases/download/v1.156.2/deltachat-rpc-server-x86_64-linux ? that't the dc core binary that desktop failed to load/find in your screenshot.

If it doesn't work it would be interesting to know any clues to why and wether the newest core from https://github.com/chatmail/core/releases still has the problem.

@RandamuMaki @delta @liaizon

I'd appreciate your help in this as @rtn wasn't able to reproduce the issue.

@treefit @delta @liaizon @rtn Most likely because they already have the server installed, I would imagine? Edit: I was obviously wrong on this assumption as the server component is included in the deb.

@RandamuMaki @delta @liaizon @rtn the rpc server is not a speperate package, but just a file included in the dc-desktop Debian package, that is for some reason not found on your system.

AFAIK @rtn started with a fresh Debian VM.

@treefit @delta @liaizon @rtn You are correct, I just used gdebi-gtk to see whether the deb contained it and ls -l to see whether the permissions are okay.

@treefit @delta @liaizon @rtn Trying to just run the deltachat-rpc-server from that folder gives `ERROR deltachat_rpc_server: Fatal error: failed to create folder: Permission denied (os error 13).` Any debug I could run from terminal to give you output to work with?

@RandamuMaki @delta @liaizon @rtn you need to supply the env var "DC_ACCOUNTS_PATH" to a path that you allowed to write in so it can create the accounts folder

@treefit @delta @liaizon @rtn So run DC_ACCOUNTS_PATH="location" bash -c './deltachat-rpc-server' then? Giving it a random temporary folder outputs `2025-03-21T13:59:13.470948Z ERROR deltachat_rpc_server: Fatal error: "/temporaryfolder/accounts.toml" does not exist.` so the server itself is at least not building the file tree it needs. Doing the same to the main executable leads to the same error I had before.

@RandamuMaki @treefit @delta I will try this on my MNT Pocket, it's running Debian unstable