@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.
Because Cinny in OpenStore is quite outdated, feel free to use my updated version from the CI here: https://github.com/Danfro/cinny-click-packaging/actions.
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...

@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.

Ubuntu Touch:
It's in your hands.

@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:

@nero355 said in Life with BQ4.5 after 20.04:

They need to have some kind of plan when it comes to porting to certain phone models for example!
At the moment it seems all a bit random ?!

Well, most of the porting is done by the community, that means by volunteers, to their abilities and at their leisure. You can't really plan for what volunteers all over the world may or may not be willing and able to do; they're not employees after all. In other words, from its very nature, it will always be a bit random.

On a strictly personal title: can you please refrain from telling the team what they need to do, must do or have to do? It sounds so demanding.
I know you probably don't mean it like that but it does come across that way.

@nero355 said in Life with BQ4.5 after 20.04:

@moem said in Life with BQ4.5 after 20.04:

I don't know, I'm not a porter. But it seems likely that there are.

So that's a NO then...

No, it isn't. It's an "I don't know". Again, please read what I wrote and don't put words in my mouth.

The ?! means I am surprised or shocked...

Then it seems you are surprised or shocked most of the time.

Maybe you got used to it step by step over the years ??

No, that can't be it. I've not even had it for half a year.

Have you compared SoT's of your phone against when the phone was new ?

No. I don't really care; it is what it is, and if I don't consider it good enough I will either get a different battery or a different phone.

And now I will take a break from reading your messages and replying to you, because our personal styles aren't very compatible. My own battery needs a recharge, so to speak.

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?

@james-t said in Always boots to fastboot screen:

Though the style is similar to a FastBoot screen, it's actually a warning screen basically saying
"You've been naughty and installed a new OS on the phone, don't blame us if anything goes wrong.",

Completely normal. That is the badge of honour that you were awarded for freeing a device from the clutches of the evil G overlords. At least that's how I see it.

@unisuperbox

It might help to realise that the only reason why we will always be disappointed is because we really like the stuff all y'all do. We like it so much that we want more, more than there can possibly be, and so we'll always be disappointed. At the same time, we will always be happy and satisfied with what is already there because it really is a lot, and it's good stuff, and it's amazing that it's even there!

But 'I'm such a happy UT user' does not a good Q&A question make. It's not even a question. So what you hear about are the things that are lacking or imperfect. It's the nature of the whole thing and it's not a sign of anything bad. It means that we care about this project.

Imagine if no one had any questions or requests. That would be a very bad sign.

I think that it's really good to let people know that help is needed and that there are many, many ways to help.
It's also good to let people know that helping will often mean: show some initiative, don't make the team spend two hours on explaining stuff so they can get one hour of help. Figure some things out for yourself.

@prophanetes Welcome to life as we know it... yes, UT can be a little fiddly and a little finicky in some ways but we love it anyway. It's got quirks and personality.

#WeDontFollowYou

I'm loving the new 'double tap to wake' feature my Op5t has now, and fingerprint unlocking has improved a lot. I'm a happy camper for sure!

It's lovely to see the legacy BQ devices get some love!

Roll, roll, roll it out
Push your code downstream
Updating, updating, updating, updating
Running like a dream.:musical_notes:

@nero355 said in The device page requires community help:

A user finds out about Ubuntu Touch
Goes to the https://devices.ubports.com/ page
Wants to check if any of the phones he/she owns are on the list quickly!

And so she types 'onep' or 'xper' or another suitable combination of letters... and the right options pop up (or there is a notice that this phone is not yet supported). It can't get quicker than that. I would not want to scroll down to Oneplus or Sony...

Anyway, new options are coming, and you may even like them.

@domubpkm said in Ubuntu Touch Q&A 129 call for questions:

If Alfred is here, could he speak of his app https://open-store.io/app/snapz0r.fredldotme ?

I think he finds it harder not to speak about it