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      Game Recommendations

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      @CiberSheep said in Game Recommendations: SeedShip Hey CS. I'll add that to my list of games to try.
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      Shoshana Zuboff, author of 'Surveillance Capitalism', gives a lecture

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      Ubuntu Touch was an idea to provide the same basic experience and apps on both PCs and phones/tablets, which potentially could be a significant improvement in our experience with devices. But, going against the behemoth of those companies that engage in surveillance capitalism and only respect money (IE, have no respect for users), makes developing and putting forward such new and interesting innovations a huge challenge. Here's another video that is shorter. This one, rather than a speech, is a documentary with a more bullet-point style highlighting her main ideas. Recommended. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hIXhnWUmMvw She describes how Google, then Facebook, and now a whack of others (including Ford Motor company) are moving away from trying to make compelling good products to sell to people, and instead are relying upon obtaining data about people to sell to business to better predict (and at times manipulate) buying patterns. It's largely done without our knowledge, and thus harms privacy rights. Further, because it is very lucrative, it takes away from the creation of decent new products, instead focusing a large amount of resources on obtaining data about users. Ford Motor Companies, for instance, could be working on developing a decent zero emission car. But instead, they are focusing on surveillance of and collection of data from their users, to then sell to other businesses. This trend is harmful to society as a whole, and harmful to people who find they are always being watched (often without even knowing it).
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      Chrome on Android?

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      @UniSuperBox, Makes sense. I recall some years ago when I was using Firefox, or maybe Mozilla Suite (it was a while ago, before Mozilla/Firefox were recognized identities), I sometimes had to change the identity of the browser to IE to be able to fill out online forms. The identity was somewhere in the Tools/Web Developer options (though I don't currently see anything like this in Firefox).
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      [solved] Trouble with the app UTPass.

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      prboom-plus not working in Libertine

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      @dobey Thanks, yes, that makes sense. It would be great to have the same basic set up on various devices. One good thing about Ubuntu Touch is that the MTP set up with a desktop is far smoother than it is with Android/LineageOS.
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      Data concerns

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      @mirroronthewall open apps should not access data in background. But dekko has a background running daemon and some other apps can use this kind of workaround like axolotl... But as intended by UT, an app in background shouldn't use any data or CPU.
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      [solved] Problem importing VCF file to Contacts app

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      I solved this. Seems it doesn't work if it's in the Documents directory. It did work when I moved it to the Downloads directory.
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      Is there anything similar to Privacy Guard in Ubuntu Touch?

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      @MarkG_108 Any app is useless, if you don't need it. Just because something is useless to you, doesn't mean it's useless to everyone. The "Hello World" thing is probably an example app. There are several example apps in the store. This is no different on other app stores, so there's no need to denigrate our store with such unkind words, simply because there aren't millions of apps covering up the few you don't care about.
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      I find the UT Linux structure both interesting and odd

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      @MarkG_108 - Libertine works fine with command line programs - I have used youtube-dl and screenfetch successfully on my OnePlus One in fact. You just need to run the
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      The Terminal, with Nano

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      Have your own AI therapist on your phone!

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      @MarkG_108 said in Have your own AI therapist on your phone!: @CiberSheep Hey, it worked! I rebooted my phone, and tried it out. After using the keyboard to enter "N" to the question, I used the provided return button with your app (rather than the keyboard one), and it worked. Great stuff!! Thanks for the workaround. This is related to the language spell checker as informed here Have fun now
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      I'm not sure if messaging is working properly

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      @lduboeuf Good idea. There have been several on this topic over the years and all seem to end the same way though, no conclusive fix, yet. @UniSuperBox has pointed to a good starting point https://github.com/ubports/ubuntu-touch/issues?utf8=✓&q=is%3Aissue+is%3Aopen+mms
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      uAdBlock

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      https://forums.ubports.com/topic/7697/uadblock-is-back-again
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      I installed atom-build-clickable but I'm not seeing it in Atom

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      AppLeeA
      @MarkG_108 Hi, I'm glad you found how to build your apps. The difference between "old" and "new" projects lies probably in clickable configuration. For this I am a mere user. And regarding the "desktop" mode, I never used it. Congratulation with setting up atom with clickable. Good luck now learning about clickable.
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      UBports Docs app

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      @MarkG_108 The feature is available, but each app is responsible to declare and to handle how the files can be openned. So I think MorphBrowser in this case doesn't tell the system that he can read HTM/HTML/... files. I don't know if there is an issue open for that but if you want it, you can check existing issues for MorphBrowser and if this one doesn't exist open a new one.
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      Well, the Contacts app failed to "Import contacts from SIM card".

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      @MarkG_108 I'm happy to read it
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      I'm now fully using Ubuntu Touch on my Nexus 5

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      @C0n57an71n Well, as describe above, follow carrefully the 6 steps to play videos on UTmedia with your Nexus 5. I haven't experienced other issues with UTmedia. Nexus 5 camera (photos + video) is working, but when switching from photo to video mode, image do freeze... To fix it: slide your screen from the right to the left and select it again, than video image appears normally.
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      I donated

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      Thank you, @MarkG_108. You're helping us make this all happen.
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      How do I back up my phone?

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      (Solved) I can't get the wifi working

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      @ToxyPoxy Awesome!