Bye everybody and thanks a lot to all those who are making UBports possible! I have been using Ubuntu Touch as daily driver since 2015 and have been following the UBports Q&A as well as this forum quite regularly. Sadly my only contributions have been some bug reports and spreading the word on social media.
I have finally given up this week and have switched to GrapheneOS on a new Pixel phone (it admittedly feels very strange to buy a Google phone for avoiding Google to spy on you...). Still hoping to getting back to 'real' Linux on my phone one day, but some of the pain points have grown too big - e.g. I am too dependent on mobile messaging via Signal/Axolotl, which has not been working for me for many months now - and seems as far from enabling video calls as ever. Also the Volla Phone still has some rather annoying shortcomings - crashes etc.
I am posting this not to spoil the mood but just to avoid leaving this great community silently without wishing the foundation, the team and all contributors the best of luck - please keep up the good fight!

Nice spec comparison of upcoming Linux phones: https://forums.puri.sm/t/comparing-specs-of-upcoming-linux-phones/6827

I am a daily user of the Signal app and would be interested in learning if anybody from the team has had any further contact with OpenWhisperSystems regarding support for making the Ubuntu Touch Signal app more stable and feature-complete. @Flohack mentioned something along those lines in https://forums.ubports.com/post/6379 .

for all of you contributors to UBPorts!

Reply from Purism regarding the Librem 5 dev kits for UBports:

If you are in contact with the UBports developers then can you ask them to get in touch directly via an existing Purism contact? If you are a UBports developer then can you talk to your colleagues and find out what the status is from their perspectives?

My impression is that there are a very small number of development boards, but that most of them are already assigned to third party development groups. For some of those groups, the task of assigning the boards was left to the people in charge of those groups and I don’t know whether there was clarity about who should receive boards.

I have regularly been checking https://github.com/orgs/ubports/projects/10 to keep track of the progress of the Unity8+Mir upgrade. However I noticed that there has not been much change lately in that github project. Is this still the right place to look at?

Purism forum says:

I believe that two devkits should have arrived with UBports folks recently.

Beyond that, I don’t have any more information. I hope that the boards survived shipping and that the developers can do something interesting with them.

https://puri.sm/posts/librem-5-smartphone-final-specs-announced/

Bad press for Purism: https://www.phoronix.com/forums/forum/phoronix/latest-phoronix-articles/1133747-an-interview-with-zlatan-todoric-open-source-developer-former-purism-cto
(sorry for being slightly off-topic)

@adlinux , my Volla shows the exact same behavior on updates.

Signal! All chats, including group chats, end-to-end encrypted by default.

Bye everybody and thanks a lot to all those who are making UBports possible! I have been using Ubuntu Touch as daily driver since 2015 and have been following the UBports Q&A as well as this forum quite regularly. Sadly my only contributions have been some bug reports and spreading the word on social media.
I have finally given up this week and have switched to GrapheneOS on a new Pixel phone (it admittedly feels very strange to buy a Google phone for avoiding Google to spy on you...). Still hoping to getting back to 'real' Linux on my phone one day, but some of the pain points have grown too big - e.g. I am too dependent on mobile messaging via Signal/Axolotl, which has not been working for me for many months now - and seems as far from enabling video calls as ever. Also the Volla Phone still has some rather annoying shortcomings - crashes etc.
I am posting this not to spoil the mood but just to avoid leaving this great community silently without wishing the foundation, the team and all contributors the best of luck - please keep up the good fight!

@adlinux , my Volla shows the exact same behavior on updates.

Thanks again for the great port, @fredldotme! I have been using the Xperia X as my daily driver for months already and I am pretty happy with it. I have been observing a number of issues, and before creating bug reports I would like to make sure they are not specific to this port and that there are no easy fixes:

• Under "Updates" I see an "Ubuntu touch Version 320" update but when clicking on "Restart & install" nothing happens.
• Sometimes when the screen has been locked and turned off for a long time the device takes ages (>10sec?) to wake up.
• On openstreetmap.org I cannot scroll the map in Morph Browser. I am pretty sure this had been working before on the bq Aquarius E4.5.

And a question: Is there any hope to get autofocus to work for the camera?

We all hope that Ubuntu Touch will continue its success and be much more widely used in the not-so-far future. With this comes the risk of becoming a relevant target for whomever wants to spread malicious functionality to other people's smartphones. How are you guys approaching the security topic? How does Ubports make sure that nobody smuggles anything into the distributed binaries (I am referring to the OS and core apps here - not so much the app store). Do ideas like reproducible builds come up during your conversations on this?

To avoid misunderstandings: I am a noob in the security domain and there is no critique whatsoever hidden in my question. It is just something which came to my mind when contemplating on the recent successes of the project (Ubports Foundation, Pinephone, Volla, ...).

Another new Ubports-on-XperiaX user here - thanks a lot for the port, @fredldotme ! My first impression: Still some crashes, but in general seems to work very fine. So happy about finally getting off my BQ Aquarius E4.5 which started to show serious signs of decay...

My questions:

• Any way of donating money to you without using Paypal? I would love to donate on Liberapay, but I do not want to use Paypal. I suppose setting up a Stripe account is too much hassle?
• Sorry if this has been answered elsewhere: How do OS updates work for an install following the instructions at the top of this thread? Will they arrive automatically, like OTAs on stable channel?

@RandomUser https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Desktop

Signal! All chats, including group chats, end-to-end encrypted by default.

https://azdle.net/2019/11/comparing-apples-and-gnomes/

https://puri.sm/posts/librem-5-birch-shipping-announcement/