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[WIP] Origin 9.x restoration

This gist documents my research into booting up that old EA Origin client and having it working again. It is incomplete and I currently give up for now, and this gist serves as a bit of info dump in case someone (like me) wants to pick this up again in the future.

Old origin urls

Legacy channel

Those were supported for a short moment after the new Origin 10.x (OriginX) was already out. They didn't include the social features/chat anymore.

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p0358 / truecharts_pvc_backup.md
Last active August 31, 2025 05:26
How to backup your TrueCharts PVC data before moving on to TrueNAS SCALE 24.10 Electric Eel + Docker

So say that you have been running your TrueNAS SCALE 24.04 or 23.10 or older happily with your TrueCharts apps installed (as happy as you could be with that buggy mess of a project).

You either stuck with 23.10 Cobia, because you didn't want to bother doing yet another TrueCharts troublesome migration where they removed did something with PVC rearrangement and expected you to re-setup all your apps yet again (!), or you upgraded to 24.04 Fangtooth either while ignoring these instructions and apps still kept on working or running the PVC migration script as intended.

You kept your apps config storages to PVC as that was a simple default. (You start to grow a certain regret of not using host path mounts for everything from the beginning, but that's all water in drain now.)

Now you want to backup that data so that you can move to Docker-based apps in upcoming 24.10 Electric Eel release flawlessly and gracefully, and be happy everafter.

This tutorial and a bunch of pointers here is for you then

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p0358 / apcupsd-notify.path
Last active June 21, 2025 16:44
Get desktop notifications about apcupsd events on Linux (like you would on Windows with the tray app)
# ~/.config/systemd/user/apcupsd-notify.path
# $ systemctl --user daemon-reload
# $ systemctl --user enable --now apcupsd-notify.path
[Path]
PathExists=/var/log/apcupsd.events
[Install]
WantedBy=graphical-session.target