@libremax Thanks for posting! I'm still at Bornhack, and beside the talk, there are so many folks here who are interested in Ubuntu Touch. Now that people know that I'm using it, lots of people want to talk to me about it and ask me questions, and I answer as many as I can.
My show-and-tell device (BQ Aquaris E4.5) goes from hand to hand (yes, we use sanitizer) and people are amazed by the smooth operation, and more when I tell them how old it is.

I'm hoping to be causing a small influx of interest in our OS and community. I'm certainly doing my best to do so!

I was one of the volunteers humanning the stand, and it was great. We were able to answer a lot of questions, we showed many different devices on our stand, and people were quite enthousiastic about what we had to show and say. It was an inspiring day and we helped promote UT and make contact with organisations for possible collaboration. Time well spent!

Unfortunately, there is currently no native, working Signal client for UT and this is unlikely to change soon. But if that's a problem that impacts you, read on! I found a solution that works well for me and maybe it will work for you, too.

My solution consists of several parts:

• Signal for Android, running in Waydroid. You can download it from their webpage or from F-Droid or Aurora Store.
• Signal Desktop running on several computers, and linked to the first Signal, which is the primary device. All others are secondary devices. You can have only one primary.
• Cinny, running on UT, using a Matrix bridge to connect to Signal. This is very new to me and yet it was easy.

I followed these instructions given by Danfro:

For everyone here who is looking for an alternative to use Signal on Ubuntu Touch.
There is a matrix signal bridge hosted here: https://tchncs.de/matrix.
This can be used with Cinny or any other Matrix client. Instructions are given on the website there.
Note: Some things do still not work. Image download is fine, but right now no other file types. I am working on it...

• Open Cinny (or another matrix client)
• create a new room
• invite the bridge bot @signalbot:tchncs.de
• open your primary signal device and head for settings, linked devices
• add new device
• got to chat with bridge bot and type "login" as message
• scan the qr code with your primary device, it should now link them
  Done.

I had an extra step because my primary is running in Waydroid and it's a pain generating and scanning a QR code on one and the same device, plus it refused to work. So I installed the latest Cinny on a spare phone and used that to link Cinny to Signal. It worked fine.

I hope this is useful to anyone else!

YESSS
It's working! I have zoom, autofocus and flash! This is the last thing that was missing for me to be able to say that the phone is fully functional under UT!

Excuse me while I dance the happy dance...

Some of their applications can run on Waydroid. But most people who are using Ubuntu Touch wish to get away from Google. Personally I want to avoid Android applications and the Google Playstore.

If we are going to do everything that Android does, what would make us special? Why would we even bother?

This was a lot of fun. We had a really simple stand because we didn't bring a lot of equipment, but it was enough: we got plenty of interest, had some good conversations, and answered many questions. It's definitely worth planning for T-Dose 2026 (June 6 and 7)!

Greetings from all the creatures of T-Dose!

Ubuntu Touch:
It's in your hands.

@cliffcoggin said in Ushby have released an official Review on UT.:

I suggest the review is removed until a more objective one can be written.

Let's cut the author a little slack. They're allowed to voice their opinions, even if their opinions are based on a misunderstanding; as for feeling ill, the world would in my view be a better place if everyone was this open and honest about what influenced their mood at a certain time.

@domubpkm said in How are the projects doing?:

we have never been used to such silence

It just shows how much Dalton did, and that he's being missed. I'm sure we will adjust, but it takes a little time.

@moem said in T-Shirt Slogan Competition!!:

Own
your phone

I'm revising this one to:

Ubuntu Touch:
The phone
you own

This would go great with this 'Yumi loves smartphone' image:

@RJDan said in Show of interest: Bug bounty fund raising:

we could pay the app developer to fix bugs in their app or add features.

Our app developers are volunteers. What if they don't have time or simply don't want to do it?

@Charly It happens, we're all human!

@Charly said in Volla X23 Upgrade Problems:

@arubislander

https://forums.ubports.com/post/22072

Is this just the release canidate?

That post is from 2019. That was OTA-10 on Xenial, not Focal.

@k.nacke said in Welcome to the UBports community! Introduce yourself here!:

My user was actually banned. But looks like an admin un-banned it.

Oh, sorry! I didn't know.

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

If @k.nacke got banned because of his username

That user is not banned.

Information can be found here: https://status.matrix.org/

@dafeihong said in unknown filesystem type 'overlay'.:

I want to run Metasploit, Nmap, and GCC on my phone

If you are on Telegram, check out the Break Your UT group... it's full of people who like wild experiments just like that!
https://t.me/breakyourut

Apart from that... yeah, it's a phone, not a PC in your pocket. Ubuntu Touch is a different thing from Ubuntu the PC or laptop OS.

@dafeihong said in unknown filesystem type 'overlay'.:

What about "apt install vim" and "apt install build-essential"?

Those clearly include apt, so... I wouldn't. Have you looked into Libertine?
https://docs.ubports.com/en/latest/userguide/dailyuse/libertine.html

@dafeihong said in unknown filesystem type 'overlay'.:

Then I ran apt update && apt upgrade.

Well, oops. Apt is not really supported on Ubuntu Touch. You may need to reflash.

@cherrie Unfortunately, only someone who has tried these specific apps can tell you whether Waydroid contains 'enough Google' to run those apps succesfully.