Hello everyone. Just so everyone knows: I hereby officially declare Ubuntu Touch to be, by far, the most usable OS with your nose. The swipe gestures make it a breeze to operate. Thank you.

I've been thinking - I have a spare FP2 on my hands I don't plan on using anytime soon. I understand anbox is now based on treble and won't run on anything under Halium 9. There's a Halium 7 build for FP2. Wouldn't that be a good testing device to try and port anbox to Halium 7 ? What I'm trying to say is I'm willing to send this FP2 to Erfan it this can help the majority of UT users with Halium 7.

@amy The core team is working on moving to 20.04 since quite a long time. This is heavy work, but yes, my friend, that's the plan.

Hello all. Got a reply from plantnet:

"Thank you for contacting us. This is interesting. I doubt we'll have the resources to make a native Ubuntu Touch app (though it seems we could just do a JS/PWA app), the team is very small.
We have a meeting to talk about open source in two weeks, can you contact us after?
We also have an API for only identifying plants (my.plantnet.org) which could be use by the open source community to build an app on top of it, though it will lack a lot of community related functions from Pl@ntnet."

Pretty straightforward, right ? I'll try and get to them in two weeks then, but it seems they're not hostile to the idea !
Btw what they call "community functions" are pretty useful - it allows rating, reviewing of your observations by peers and botanists

@cliffcoggin I am also donating. But i can't help but think this is virtue-signaling and I wish I could have avoided that - now I feel compelled to give my opinion. You haven't got straightforward answers because the answer is not straightforward. Just like @Moem I'd be glad to pay for UT. But I also believe it would crush the future of the OS if it was "mandatory". It would doom it forever. I've heard numerous times on this forum that we're trying to build a system that is NOT meant for an "ethical phone" - toting elite but rather for everyone wanting to escape mass surveillance, for one. Making UT paid-for would effectively do that. And for an open source project, losing users mean losing devs in the long run. I see that the project , and the separate dev team that compose it are in dire need of money. But making UT a service you pay for is not the way to fix this I believe. Infrastructure costs have to be able to rely on a steady flow of cash and there's no getting around a donation system. Maybe we do need to make the monthly goals more visible. It would certainly help. Now for the apps, just look at what happened with waydroid: people were hoping that sth could be made to work and paid what was needed. Some of these people most likely never donated for other UT aspects. If UT became paid-for, we might get some sort of expensive "secure phone" like some security companies are selling - only less reliable, and without the flexibility of a community that drive the OS depending on each members' separate interests.

Hello good people ! I wanted to put that into support a while ago but I thought it would eventually go away or something. Here's the thing: when someone ends a call on me, or their phone is unreachable, the dual beep that ensues never fails to pierce my eardrum, and most likely disturb wild fauna in a mile radius ^^ it's unbelievably loud, and I can't find no option to change that. The same happens for a dual call, which prevents me from hearing the actual conversation. Any ideas ? FP2 stable

@domubpkm there is one, and it works fantastically: Music Recognition

@dobey I have extensively used ffmpeg for livestreaming, and with the correct flags, you can force hardware decoding on some architectures, and it drastically decreases cpu usage

@kugiigi Still worth it for anyone out there not having a halium 9 device...

I really, really don't understand why is this thread still going on. There IS an app, it works flawlessly, and once you've filled in your keys, all it asks indeed is microphone access. Now if shazaam doesn't ask you fill anything, it's probably because it uploads, uses and sell all the information it deems interesting about your person. Having different apps doing more or less the same thing is what results in the absolute clusterfuck that is the IOS appstore for example, making it pretty hard to find anything, unless you know precisely what you're looking for. And finally, I use and like the translate app, but I really don't think an app relying on a mirror of a google api is sth to look forward to.

@El-Franko ive had an opo for a while and the camera always worked fine, as anybody here having an opo can attest. Whether yours has a broken camera OR you don't actually have the exact device that is well supported (A0001 or sth) OR maybe you jumped to installing the focal (20.04) version of UT which I guess is still quite quirky - if so, getting a stable 16.04 image should solve some of your problems

@ubuntumale in my experience, the fairphone 2 could be a good choice. It has two well supported sim slots, and being an arm7 device, linphone runs on it (which it won't on arm64 devices)

I have to say i'm on 16.04 dev branch and same here - so it's been for a while

@chris_bavaria yeah ! Sth like "can't answer i'm in a tense 1v5 csgo match" would be quite useful

Last night, as it sometimes happens, i accidentally hit the plane icon on my Pixel. I then get out of flight mode, getting ready to laboriously restart Lomiri so I can get cellular data again and finish watching my video, when suddenly the truth hits me - I won't need to do that. In a fever, i frantically turn cellular data on and off - no way ! It's not greyed out ! It's working ! Not believing my eyes, it try flight mode again - and out of it. I have to face it: flight mode, after years of being a pain in the neck of every UT user, is fixed !!! Hosannah !!!
On a more serious note: this means the world to me. This has been something unnerving to me for so long, a bug that followed me from the FP2 to the 1+1 to this Pixel and I had lost but all hope. Not only does this mean misclicks are not such an issue now; it also means flight mode is now actually usable.
Thanks so much for the work - to whoever made this fix, thank you from the bottom of my heart, and no doubt, on behalf of the whole community. Because I know we spend more time rambling about what's janky in this lovely OS, this kind of stuff needs to be highlighted. On a less fundamental aspect, I have to say the fingerprint sensor is also quite reliable these days.

@lduboeuf indeed i don't let this counter grow anymore ^^ i've got some ideas i'll propose

@lduboeuf yes I know that. Except i'm not gonna go through a 100+ list of threads and patiently click on them to mark them read. I used to do it now and then because of a couple of threads I left unattended so as to clean my messaging launcher icon - but here there has been some regression where messages I have read are marked unread.
EDIT: i just did the manual cleaning which was less of a chore I made it out to be. These messages where essentially 2FA verifications. Why ? Because usually I only look at the notification to grab the number - and erasing the notification does not mark the message as read. I think there's a real quality of life issue here - unless I came across a real RC update bug and clearing notifications indeed marked messages as read ; I can't remember - you should be able to mark all messages as read ( as you do on this forum) or maybe the notification system should be able to communicate a read message to messaging-app ?

Hello good folks ! Since RC 57 came to my pixel, my messages app shows a hundred (and counting) unread messages. Therefore I can't know effectively if I indeed missed anything. How can I mark everything as read ?

@jaag It was not planned, but UT did the detox thing for me. I don't have fb and the sorts anymore and I can only vouch for what @Moem said: it's a calmer experience indeed. Notifications are usually far and between and i consume much less videos / games / social and much more books, forums, and interactive novels, thanks mostly to @cybersheep job

There is a way !! Either try to reach a bookmarked website through your favorites - or type in the address bar anything starting with https://.... It usually works, strangely enough