@kugiigi https://next.open-store.io/app/wireguard.sysadmin/ ?

@DJac said: my idea was to acces easily to the options (with a drop-down menu for exemple) now that you have done the hard part (to persuade a French that beyond difficulties in the meaning of words he agrees to what you say - what will happens next, concur on the best cheese, camembert or roquefort ? ) , remains only the easy part, persuade the UT project leaders to dedicate some part of their huge workforce (cough) to your idea

@oldbutndy I think we're in agreement. When I said Global I was referring to the firmware for the easy unlock. The 2 models of the OnePlus Nord N10 5g with the direct bootloader unlock (e.g not requiring OnePlus support to give you a token) are the BE2026 which from the Ubuntu Touch device page informs to apply the Global firmware Oxygen 10.5.7 and the BE2029 which informs to apply the EU firmware Oxygen 10.5.7 in order for Ubuntu Touch to work properly (Halium needs to interact with those specific firmware). For this particular phone, other devices, for example BE2028 (T-Mobile) and another for Metro, are generally tied to a particular carrier initially, require unlock token from vendor support regardless if Global or EU firmware is applied directly to the device.

@CatWithUT In my experience porting these kind of application currently requires a lot of tweaking. It's not only the binary but in what environment you execute it. To my mind it's really not a good candidate for a completely automated process if we want to build applications that are really usable. Especially as long as we have to work with Mir1.x, and Xwayland, it might improve a bit with Mir2.x

I use a Fairphone 4 on channel 24.04/daily. When I did my research and asked the same questions you have, I came to the conclusion that USB3.0 display port with a wired connection to HDMI monitor was superior to any other USB2.0 device which has to use some kind of other technology to connect to another screen, but can connect a USB keyboard and a mouse. From my USBC3.0 display out decision I figured out that Fairphone 4 or 5 would be suitable although very expensive. The next question was if 6GB RAM would be enough (yes it is enough), or if I need 8GB RAM (still haven't taken on the banking app world with Waydroid, but I will). Fairphone 5 is the only one still being sold. Fairphone 4 is much harder to find. Usually there are sales on Fairphone 5 during times like Black Friday, but there are no units in stock to be sold over the counter, only online sales. There is a lot of writing about shifting customer support, lack of spare parts like extra batteries, extra USBC-ports and price point, which made me hesitate a lot. It didn't get better to see 12GB RAM Pixel 9/10 sales as little as 270 €, but of course: There is no port! I landed in that it is probably wiser to wait until a cheap 12-16GB RAM device with USB3 display out is ported. Fairphone 5 was the only option available at the time so it was either to accept it and be ok with the price point or wait until something like Redmi 18C with USB3 arrives and sells out for 100 €. The frustration is on my part that you have to anticipate which device will most probably be ported in the future and buy it when it sells out, maybe years before it gets ported. You can't easily get such a device later. On top you have this whole locked bootloader unlocking process and downgrading android if you are lucky to own a device which gets ported in the future. In that sense, it was Fairphone or nothing for me. Learning about repair disasters from this forum, I would think twice to go for Fairphone with what I know today. If you have 700 € and consider it worth taking a short term risk, go for a new Fairphone, it is definitely good enough for now. If no 700 € exist , I would personally with the knowledge I now have wait until another cheap 12-16 GB RAM device with USB3 that you can still buy appears in the Ubuntu Touch device list. Android 16 is supposed to offer desktop mode, which might push developers of devices to put in USB3. It is also common with 6000mAh batteries now and tablets most often have even more battery power. I am aware of that it might take time until more devices are ported. I have been looking around for posts how users with USB2 devices solve the display out need without affecting internet connection, WiFi speeds and so on. WiFi-7 is another thing that's starts popping up and that I personally think is going to become my requirement for future devices. 32 GB RAM seems to become the new norm on desktops, given that many wish to run local ai models which apparently need 20GB RAM to run 14B models on the graphic card. My Fairphone 4 is good for all I am testing out, which is generally making it into a PC using wifi. I don't use mobile data that much at the moment. My focus is to make the device useful for everything you need in daily life, on any kind of internet connection. Calls can be made via Signal, Linphone, matrix.org, so I don't really need anything more than some sort of internet. Banking apps will most probably still require a cheap non-rooted android with gapps, that is why I plan to check out Waydroid with banking apps if it works or not. Zoom app is another thing to be aware about that does not work on Linux ARM, but probably does work in Waydroid. Raspberry Pi 5 with 16GB would probably be another cheap PC that fits inside your pocket, although it's wifi is reported to drop speed drastically once you move away a couple of meters from the WiFi-5 access point. It does lack a good form factor with the extra board needed for SSD hard drive to get better speed, so it is not really an option to carry around. It's ai capabilities are not super either. Which is why I went for a Fairphone and am trying to get all what I need to work properly on it. I think it is the only option right now, which unfortunately makes me who want USB3 become more dependent on one supplier who can do what they want. I don't like that, but it is what it is right now. Overall I am more than ok with my Fairphone 4. It is not bad at all, but it is an expensive toy. Maybe I was lucky to get a good unit too. It has not broken yet. You still need to be tech savvy to get everything to work the way you wish in Fairphone 4. Not much comes ready out of the box on Fairphone 4 compared to a ten year old computer with latest Linux Desktop. I would not give Ubuntu Touch to others today to use even though they already adopted Linux desktops over Windows and Apples. It is in my opinion still too complex for a newbie regular user who prefers Android and such that has been around longer. I fear I would become a constant PC support for others if I promoted Ubuntu Touch to them today. 2-3 years from now I think Ubuntu Touch will be much better for the large crowds who are not tech enthusiasts. For me personally Ubuntu Touch is good enough already today for most things I need, including python3 scripting, API calls, JSON-data and LibreOffice. Copy-paste issues in Libertine, scrolling with mouse and screenshots of individual windows and regions like you do on a Linux Desktop is my biggest concern right now. Protonvpn I wish to get working. I noticed that the old PS2 mouses work better than new gaming mouses in desktop mode. Connecting other things to Fairphone 4 is for me more important than I thought previously.

@CiberSheep said: I can't remember, but it is still possible to define new kinds of accounts to be included in the Accounts in the system (adding to nextCloud, etc)? It should yes, i think UBsync do that, but seems confined: https://open-store.io/app/ubsync

@lduboeuf thanks. it is done. i will reporting after usage. After 4 hours : Clearly better. even with whatsnews.

@Mario.CH 5G works on this device. Tested and working.

@libremax On the Nothing Phone (1) running Noble in India. VoLTE seems to be working on all 3 major services here (Those being Airtel, Jio and Vi) . I haven't really had any issues in the past month of using UT. SMS are instant too.

I'm all for repairable devices and empathise with your situation. It does make sense that you can't replace the mainboard, at that point your not repairing the device your replacing it for a new one. I would say you've been had by the reseller and Fairphone have been pretty fair with you considering the situation. It's probably been too long but I would take it up with ebay.

On my Fairphone 4 channel 24.04/daily I noticed that playback of a longer video in this browser does not block screen saver. The video and sound keeps playing on a black screen and it is necessary to manually wake the screen with a push on the power button. I really miss the "raise-to-wake-screen" or "shake-to-wake-screen" on my Fairphone 4 in these kind of situations where the screen needs to be easily woken up. On Android, even the cheapest Motorola with IPS screen seems to support this "raise-or-shake-to-wake-up-screen" functionality. I think it uses the accelerometer sensor to notice the raising or shaking and does the same as if power button was pushed. I like that the text size on largest setting makes the text bigger. However, the text size in search bar on top, or in settings remains to be tiny. On my Fairphone 4, the largest text size looks as normal text size. The text could be enlarged two steps more in my opinion. It could have to do with high DPI on the screen itself (I think it has 400).

@k.nacke Thank for the hint

@Mario.CH yes, exacly that symptoms.

@kugiigi Thank you, will check it out ^^

@bhdouglass Ok thank's a lot it worked! https://open-store.io/app/touchpiano.pparent I promise I will use Qt6/Qml6 very sparingly, until the library is available inside the OS. In the mean time this app can serve as a demonstration Qml6 app. Ps: But what might be usefull is to start building a a Qt6 version of Whatsweb, that is currently broken.

@sermountain Dualboot with UT is not supported by UBports but directly from Volla. You may get some help here of other users, but not very likely since Volla support does not participate in this forum.

@Fizz said: I note the devices list seems to be a bit out of date though. It says the Pixel 3a does not support the Noble release Yes, that's correct, someone in the know would need to update that on GitLab.

@eipapp6 where were you trying to install it using Virtualbox or Virt-Manager or something else , most probably you did not turn on the hardware acceleration and OpenGL it needs that for display

@domubpkm thanks