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      Lakotaubp @jjconstr
      last edited by Lakotaubp 4 Apr 2020, 04:08 4 Apr 2020, 04:07

      @jjconstr Hello and welcome. Use the link in the post above your one for some useful information.

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        Opolork @jjconstr
        last edited by 4 Apr 2020, 08:41

        @jjconstr Greetings, Jerry. ๐Ÿ™‚

        How can you trust that an app really won't send some company your location data, when you tell it not to? The only way you can trust a program not to do something it isn't supposed to do is if it is free software. ~ RMS

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          jjconstr @Opolork
          last edited by 7 Apr 2020, 06:23

          @Opolork
          Belatedly, Great community!

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            incyi
            last edited by 7 Apr 2020, 13:01

            Hello World !

            I'm "incyi", emb. software developer for around 8 years now. Mainly write in C for cortex-m microcontrollers.

            Looking forward to work on some open-source projects. I just pre-ordered the PinePhone UBports edition.

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              Opolork @incyi
              last edited by 7 Apr 2020, 13:11

              @incyi said in Welcome to the UBports community! Introduce yourself here!:

              incyi

              Greetings, incyi. ๐Ÿ™‚

              How can you trust that an app really won't send some company your location data, when you tell it not to? The only way you can trust a program not to do something it isn't supposed to do is if it is free software. ~ RMS

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                Lakotaubp @incyi
                last edited by 7 Apr 2020, 13:21

                @incyi Hello, you may find this link useful https://ubports.com/meet-the-community

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                  capa77
                  last edited by 10 Apr 2020, 09:52

                  Hello all together,
                  I'm on Linux since the end of '90's. I'm not a programmer or software coder. I'm building websites and manage some web and mailserver's. Sometimes I make graphics if I need them for apps or websites or Linux TV receivers.
                  I'm using iOS since 2008 as my mobile OS. I never used android devices for personally/daily usage but I've a testing devices with lineage. I was always looking for Linux Projects on Smartphones and followed the development.
                  Now I cant wait no more and decided to get a device. After all BH versions of pinephone was gone, last week was a good one with new UBports version and I orders one of them.
                  To get some "practice" I got an old Nexus5. Last Day's I'm trying to get familiar withe the file system structure and looking for the theming possibilities. By the way I tested some Anbox and Libertine options

                  So, thx for your work. Have a nice time

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                    Lakotaubp @capa77
                    last edited by 10 Apr 2020, 10:34

                    @capa77 Hello and welcome please have a look at the link in the post above yours for some useful info.

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                      Opolork @capa77
                      last edited by 10 Apr 2020, 12:25

                      @capa77 Greetings! ๐Ÿ™‚

                      How can you trust that an app really won't send some company your location data, when you tell it not to? The only way you can trust a program not to do something it isn't supposed to do is if it is free software. ~ RMS

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                        A Former User @NeoTheThird
                        last edited by 16 Apr 2020, 16:51

                        @NeoTheThird
                        Longtime Debian desktop user & in pursuit of convergence and eliminating monopolies of โ€˜choiceโ€™ by supporting efforts that challenge these institutions. I am not a developer, but a dreamer, perhaps a seer and just excited to be part of a community that has brought such a technology to market.

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                          mackristof
                          last edited by 16 Apr 2020, 17:15

                          HelloWorld,
                          my first distribution was Slackware on the middle of '90's. I'm a Java/Kotlin software programmer. this year I try to learn Rust, and when i saw it is possible to create native app with rust or Golang, I bought a nexus5 to install ubports \o/

                          I am interested in exploitation of OSM data/ geolocation app, dev tools, and many more things.

                          my first helloWorld app will be an assistant (a contextual touchBar ) of my laptop.

                          MacKristof.

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                            Lakotaubp @mackristof
                            last edited by Lakotaubp 16 Apr 2020, 17:43

                            @mackristof and @broodingwatcher Welcome to UBports and enjoy. Have a look here https://ubports.com/meet-the-community

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                              Opolork
                              last edited by 17 Apr 2020, 08:00

                              Greetings to @broodingwatcher & @mackristof. ๐Ÿค ๐Ÿ™‚

                              How can you trust that an app really won't send some company your location data, when you tell it not to? The only way you can trust a program not to do something it isn't supposed to do is if it is free software. ~ RMS

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                                A Former User @Opolork
                                last edited by 18 Apr 2020, 13:48

                                @Opolork thank you! I ordered my UBports PinePhone the other afternoon, now the excruciating wait for it to ship is upon me. Iโ€™ve been using iOS for a while, but have always wished for an open source option. I use a NanoPC T4 for my personal computer and am looking for OS choices to use on its ARM64 Proc.
                                It would be amazing if I could run ubtouch on each of my devices!

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                                  libremax @mackristof
                                  last edited by libremax 18 Apr 2020, 14:21

                                  @mackristof Same for me, Slackware 2.0 precisely and its 18 disquettes. A lot of patience and knowledge was needed at this time to install GNU/linux.

                                  Donate anonymously 1โ‚ฌ/$ by year to UBports, all Ubuntu Touch users can do it ! Demonstration:
                                  https://forums.ubports.com/topic/1262/donate-anonymously-1-by-year-to-ubports-all-ubuntu-touch-users-can-do-it-demonstration/

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                                    hankschwie
                                    last edited by hankschwie 20 Apr 2020, 13:32

                                    Hi!

                                    I'm Heinrich aka hank, and have been around for some weeks now.

                                    I'm an "interested layman", without any computer science training whatsoever (well, except for a Highschool Class way back in 1982 ;-)).
                                    Using Ubuntu since about 2005 (warty!), I switched over to Ubuntu completely since Windows Vista was introduced.
                                    I have been active in the german ubuntuusers.de forum since 2005, and act as wiki moderator since 2009.
                                    Last year I got my hands on a used Fairphone2, (already had one running the open source fairphone version) and tried Ubuntu Touch. Since then I'm hooked to it, bought a new bq HD m10 just for UT, and did an almost complete overhaul of the https://wiki.ubuntuusers.de/Ubuntu_Touch section over at ubuntuusers.de over the last weeks - (might be interesting for people who speak, or at least read, German).

                                    Thanks for the help I was able to get from you so far! Hope I can give something back.

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                                      Lakotaubp @hankschwie
                                      last edited by 20 Apr 2020, 13:59

                                      @hankschwie Hello guess as you've been her a while this may not be that useful but still https://ubports.com/meet-the-community

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                                        Opolork
                                        last edited by 20 Apr 2020, 14:34

                                        Greetings, @hankschwie. ๐Ÿ™‚ ๐Ÿค

                                        How can you trust that an app really won't send some company your location data, when you tell it not to? The only way you can trust a program not to do something it isn't supposed to do is if it is free software. ~ RMS

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                                          mackristof @libremax
                                          last edited by 22 Apr 2020, 06:05

                                          @libremax so true. a long road from slack 2.0 to ubports on your phone ๐Ÿ˜‰

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                                            Alter
                                            last edited by 8 May 2020, 08:06

                                            Hello everyone,

                                            I am Alter, and I would describe myself as a regular user. Although I do not have any programming skills, I do have an interest in open source technology (I have been using Linux for over 10 years on my PCs now as my sole OS), security and privacy.

                                            I do not like the duopoly of Android and iOS, and the fact that big tech companies all use data mining technologies to spy on their users to build profile databases. I also regret the fact that it is hard to break out of this, as the mobile world is very app centric and standard apps are only available for the Big Two. I want change!

                                            Especially because of the spying issue of the Big Two, I did not own a smartphone until recently, when I acquired a Nexus 5 on which I installed Ubuntu Touch. The available apps are sufficient for my daily use. There is still room for improvement, but considering that this comes from a (I guess) smaller community: I'm amazed!

                                            I can use contact list, calling, text, Axolotl (end-to-end encrypted messaging via signal protocol), Morph webbrowser, photo app, galery, file manager, pdf, rotation lock, flight mode (and even choose wifi on), and there is more that I haven't tried yet. The installer is great (really smooth for me) and on RC you get weekly updates.

                                            I am also very excited about the Linux Phone hardware developments that are currently going on: Librem Phone, Pinephone and Volla. I have ordered a Pinephone UBports Community Edition and am eagerly anticipating its arrival, and I hope that it will soon be daily driver ready! OTA updates already work, so that is a big step forward.

                                            Although I do not have any programming skills, and don't have much time now to get involved in other ways, I did make a donation to UBports and plan to do so regularly.
                                            Also, I will contribute to Ubuntu Touch by participating in this forum, if I feel my input can be of help.

                                            In any case, I wish this endeavor great succes!

                                            Kind regards,
                                            Alter

                                            Regular user, UT since 2020, Now: Volla Phone (20.04 Stable)

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