Posts made by herr-b

Volla Phone 22 has dual boot now again. I have the Android version and it comes with Volla OS. Volla OS is based on AOSP with some components from Lineage OS and specific components from Volla. I have Ubuntu Touch installed on the external MicroSD card as dual boot. UT runs quite fast from my SD card, I can use it as my daily driver. In some cases I boot Android, but most of the time I use UT. It is much faster than my Pinephone with mobian.

I can confirm this behaviour, I have an E4.5 and a M10 FHD and both make frequently a restart, when I hit power off. I think the second time it works normally. I can't find any rules behind, it seems randomly for me. Possibly it is only after they have been running for a while? Testing right now I can't reproduce it. But I always wait and check weather the device is really powered off.

I think the bigger problem is, even when charging the M10 in powered off status, I come back after some time and the M10 is running again without having it restarted manually. If I had the screensaver disabled possibly the screen was on for hours.

On http://www.openstreetmap.org/ you can double tap on the map and it makes some kind of "zoom in" and center. Then you can zoom out again with the button and by repeating this procedure slowly reach your target. This is far away from good usability but at least a way to use the map if really needed.

This is somehow similar to the "autoload" of gpx tracks we discussed on github:

The program Cachebox for example has a folder called "Autoload". All gpx files that are in this folder are loaded at program start and shown on the map. It has no UI for the "Autoload" folder, only shows the tracks as an overlay over the map. Each track has a different colour to distinguish them from each other.

@Capsia yes for me it seems to work now! I checked the config according to your advice and the fields where different, secrets was empty. I also added the port according to @thilov and entered directly myurl.com:1194

Then I forced the config and secret with your commands and now it works! Many thanks!

(I also used the same folder, you used in your post but I don't know if this has any influence, just made it easier for me to check the fields and make the new input.)

I repeat my example from above LibreOffice should be independent from SUN/Oracle.

In this thread it is easy, NTP and Connectivity Check independent from "Home" ...

I am also not a lawyer or expert on this, the FSF page also didn't help me ...
Reading the posts I suppose that many UT users also use Ubuntu and are not questioning dependencies to Canonical.

That's the point, I don't want to read Ubuntu's Privacy Policy, I want to reduce Third Party Services as much as possible or use independent services.

Thanks for the clarifications!

OK, the update check seems to connect to system-image.ubports.com, for me this is the real home.

The "problem" with the public Wifi you describe seems to be the same I mentioned above as wlan-hotspots with the corresponding link. During the last years I never tried these connections with my android phone with disabled captive portal check. So possibly this does not work or it requires to navigate to a specific website for login.

The problem with the apps is clear, for that reason I mention only UT is calling "home". To prevent apps from calling trackers I think there is uAdBlock.

Now I understand, maybe you are confusing free of charge with free like freedom? If you want to discuss about money, possibly this thread would fit better? https://forums.ubports.com/topic/4650/online-donation-platforms.

So please stick to NTP connections and Connectivity Check.

I add a new question: Is it possible to deactivate the Connectivity Check manually?

There is no personal info being sent to the NTP server, nor to the connectivity check that the push notifications client performs.

@dobey according to the European Court of Justice the IP address is personal data.

@Flohack I think financing UT or newspapers is a different topic, so in this case OT ... this thread is dealing about https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Privacy_by_design and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Informational_self-determination and I think the expectations on UT regarding these topics are present.

I know, objective discussion in written words is difficult, specially English is not my mother tongue. What I also notice is, that I have a different sense concerning privacy issues. In my opinion UT has to consider privacy issues, because there a many people searching for an alternative to the big companies. As soon as they can use UT on their main phone, number of UT users will increase. Unfortunately I am not a software developer, so I cant contribute with code. I really dont want to waste the time of software developers from improving UT/apps.

@Capsia yes this command works, I can enter the password and at the end it confirms "Initialization Sequence Completed". On the pivpn I see the connected device. But opening Morph Browser the traffic is not routed via the pihole. So I suppose, that I make something wrong with the "Manual Configuration" or the four files.

It is a little bit confusing, that the configuration never remembers the settings: "key-direction 1" and "cipher AES-256-CBC" when I edit the connection.

I opened this thread to see, if I should open an issue report on GitHub/GitLab, because I don't want to open issues, that are not handled. Looking through the answers above, I notice that this point attracts mainly negative feedback.

In my case syslog shows:
NetworkManager ... result="success"
... Started the VPN service ...
... Saw the service appear; activating connection ...
... <error> ... vpn-connection ... Failed to request VPN secrets #3: No agents were available for this request.

NTP: Behind https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NTP_pool there doesn't seem to be a company behind? If a company is behind you never know, what they do with the data. Maybe today they do nothing with it, only waste energy and disk space collecting it? And what is technically possible tomorrow? So there is no need to generate this data at all.

Captive Portal Check: On my Android devices I deactivated it and I didn't find out what is missing? So I still do not know why it is needed. I have read something that it is necessary for some recognition of wlan-hotspots (page in german: https://www.kuketz-blog.de/empfehlungsecke/#captive-portal). If I could deactivate it on UT, I would do it. Maybe it could be integrated in the system settings to activate or deactivate it? In that case standard should be "off".

OT: So I understand, that if I use LibreOffice, I have to be a friend of SUN or Oracle because StarOffice was originally written by them? Yes I appreciate that Canonical developed UT but I appreciate also the use of free software.

Its a matter of privacy by design and informational self-determination. I want to decide who gets which data from me. I don't want to check every background connection, weather the website or company behind is "devil" or not.

In fact as I wrote above it was a big disillusion for me, when I noticed that Canonical made the same "mistake" as google or apple with its UT store. I also uninstalled Ubuntu from my PC's.

In the year 2015 I bought two e4.5 but the disillusion came soon when I noticed that I had to register at ubuntu store even to install a simple email app! After an update the screen of one e4.5 didn't work any more and I switched to CM/LOS.

A few weeks ago I noticed that Canonical terminated UT 2017. So now I am testing again UT and must notice now, that as soon as I boot a device it is still calling home to Canonical! My pihole shows connections to ntp.ubuntu.com and start.ubuntu.com.

I can understand, that a device without SIM is connecting to a NTP Server, but debian for example connects to pool.ntp.org. So there is absolutely no need to show Canoncial when I connect my device to the internet!

The connection to start.ubuntu.com is possibly a connectivity check? Although here there is absolutely no need to contact Canonical! Maybe the connection to pool.ntp.org could work as a connectivity check? But I don't understand, why it is needed at all.

For now I will block these pages in my pihole ...

I tested again, with the same result. I get an error message, that is displayed only partly, although on my tablet screen there is enough space to display a complete article ...