@Lazarus2026 I am nowhere in porting but if you want inform me through MP and I 'll try to help.

Here I would, at least for security-criticsl apps, recommend going the Snap route. Not only does it do fine-grained AppArmor mediation, it also does cgroup, udev and seccomp configuration to reduce the attack surface available to the app. It has it way harder than ordinary Ubuntu Touch apps to escape the sandbox, even compared to clicks. Snaps are very well suited for paranoid usecases.

@idonthatevests Some devices can power on SSD via USB-C OTG with power delivery. Fairphone 5 with Fairphone OS can do it, I use it with a sandisk extreme SSD 500Go, it works very well. On the other way, if I want to use an HDMI dongle with SSD attached, for example to play a movie with my FP5 from the SSD, I have to power the dongle with external power because FP5 can't deliver enough power to SSD and dongle with HDMI/audio output in use for a stable playback. Now I still don't have a FP5 with UT on it so I can't test with this OS for now (will come).

@Blackbomber said: @kugiigi Would an older UT version be possible? Like @kugiigi said it could be. But then you would have deprecated OS with most apps deprecated and non fonctionnal, both from install and openstore.

What prevents the openstore to be hosted in Europe ?

@mihael It was my pleasure!

Again... must be a football thing https://explorer.ooni.org/domain/www.ubports.com?since=2026-05-11&until=2026-06-11 https://explorer.ooni.org/domain/repo.ubports.com?since=2026-05-11&until=2026-06-11 https://explorer.ooni.org/domain/repo2.ubports.com?since=2026-05-11&until=2026-06-11

@ancientsounds It seems to be in relation with this: https://gitlab.com/ubports/development/ubuntu-touch/-/work_items/2331

@Vlad-Nirky Thanks for the reply! Yeah, my understanding is this generally works smoothly. I just wondered if my issue was a one-off, or uncommon but sometimes encountered. I suspect my database is just screwed up somehow. pragma integrity_check didn't find anything wrong, but that's as far as I got. Anyway, not looking for support, just thought I should see if any others experienced something similar. Congrats on your NP1! And 26.04, very cool!

@domubpkm The app itself would be doable but the packages aren't doable since they ust replace system files so translations can't be processed. I mean it's doable but it'll take for someone to modify each file manually and create separate packages per language

host you could use google drive or whatever is allowed in your country

@nbdynl Directly donating money is always an option but I did try this last year and I got very little engagement from the community. I had asked for a 'promise to donate' rather than sending the money to anyone so there was effectively no risk for the donors as they would donate to the winner directly. When I asked for people to dedicate time or effort to create a reward (images, logos, etc), I got much more engagement. This is great but it can't scale well if you want to get more than 5 people contributing to the reward.

@RJDan here is a link to the last (2023) post done by a NodeBB member about it.