I fixed my silly phone.
It's a Pixel 4A 5G, and there's dust under the main camera, which is something I use a decent bit.
I was doing tons of research into alternative OSes (because even de-googled #Android is pretty BLEH), and was considering getting a #PinePhone (not Pro) for #PostmarketOS & #SXMO, or getting a Pixel 3a XL for #UBports.
@krafter@craftyguy
if you never used android, give instead #ubports a try, i used the 16.04 as a reliable daily driver happy for several years...
aaaand, if camera is a big issue and you like phosh, give #droidian a go! https://droidian.org/ #op6
Our friends at @volla are making a donation of 10€ to the UBports Foundation for every device sold in order to support our work!!! 😍❤️😘
Go get a #Volla22 with #UbuntuTouch pre-installed, and support us!
Welp, there goes the idea of (paid) indie games for that mobile platform. 😐 Given #Flathub works on a payment backend it would've been best for #LinuxPhone's as a whole to go that route instead of doing their own sandboxing around apk. #MobileLinux devices will never get out of the niche they're in that way even if the GUI is ever so fancy.
Couldn't find hard info regarding #mobian or #ubports about this. 😐
My heart is bleeding. After 9 years using Ubuntu Touch on my main phone, I'll switch to a degoogled Android version. Too much services I regulary use implemented an app only policy or at least an only all features available if using the app policy, which kind of sucks. I ended up having two phones, but that sucks also. So in the end, I gave up.
However, thank you ubports for your ongoing efforts and hard work. I'll continue to support you financially and hope to come back to UT.
I would love to try Lomiri on postmarketOS. Probably my favorite out of all the mobile Linux UIs. I wonder what blockers there are from it entering the main repos? I would even consider maintaining it in the repos if I had to. I guess I'll just have to build it manually...
I'm happy to announce the release of DeltaTouch, a messenger based on deltachat-core for Ubuntu Touch. It's available in the OpenStore for both xenial and focal: https://open-store.io/app/deltatouch.lotharketterer
Big thanks to @delta for their continued support throughout this journey!
Thanks also to @playforvoices for testing and valuable suggestions.
Last but not least, I would like to thank the UT AppDev community (Maciek, dobey, Jonatan) for always coming up with a solution.
Decided to try to setup a blog for my development. For my first piece I decided to recount the development history of #Lomiri as a frame for my future posts.
Just got back from the local #tdose conference. I might have gone a bit overboard in preparing some #sxmo material to go in style. Fellow mobile linux project #ubports had a nice stand and #nlnet had lots of stickers to share, including a #postmarketos one.
In-line with my previous blog post about #Flatpak in #Lomiri I have been working on getting the core Lomiri click apps packaged for Flatpak.
Thankfully, there have been upstream efforts to do this already! Sadly it seems that the packages are out of date and barely functional, but it is something to work with!
So far I have the Lomiri calculator, clock, and filemanager running.
Ubuntu Touch wechselt zu einem Fixed Release Modell
Diese Änderung wird es der UBports Foundation ermöglichen, Fehler- und Sicherheitskorrekturen schneller als bisher bereitzustellen, um ein stabileres und zuverlässigeres Ubuntu Touch-Erlebnis zu gewährleisten.
📱 :linux: Regular Linux on yer mobile device? It's getting more viable for common use 🙏
◉Ubuntu Touch? Can be put on an off-the-shelf Android ARM device via UBports Installer without too much hassle - https://ubports.com
◉Sailfish OS? Jolla provide even an Android app compatibility should ever plain required -- to get familiar first: https://forum.sailfishos.org