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The current Discord app in the store isn't working. I have figured out a way to get the actual Discord website working in the Morph browser (use the URL "https://www.discord.com/channels/@me" instead of "https://www.discord.com/") and I am currently working my way through the documentation in order to figure out how to create a web app to submit to the app store. I know there is an app to create a webapp, but 1) I am a developer and I want to figure out the process and 2) I want to play with the webapp options to hopefully make it work better and the webapp app doesn't have a way to play with all the options.

So my question is: is there a way to remove the existing broken Discord app from the store, or am I going to have to name my app something similar which will be confusing?

I am trying to install Ubuntu touch on a generic amd64 computer. I am shocked that there isn't more interest in doing this, and that there are not more breadcrumb documentation for people that want to pursue it. After flailing around a bit I ran across the instructions for the pine phone and tablet and I have had more success starting with that. So far I have Ubuntu Touch booting in an amd64 VirtualBox instance but it hangs during the initialization process. Steps uncovered so far:

• Download latest ubuntu-touch-mainline-generic-amd64.img.xz file from https://ci.ubports.com/job/rootfs/job/rootfs-generic-amd64/
• Uncompress it with unxz
• Convert to VirtualBox VDI disk image: VBoxManage convertdd disk.img disk.vdi

The boot process appears to hang on "Starting virtual private network daemon".

Any advice for getting this working would be appreciated. I am a software developer and I have time to devote to this project, there is just no good documentation on how to get started doing that.

Bonus points for any ideas how to convert the img file to an ISO image suitable for installing on bare hardware. It appears to be a standard IMG file but all the usual methods to convert an img to and iso (ccd2iso, mounting as loopback) have not worked.

I have a rather large MP3 collection and I've spent some time building my playlists for RhythmBox. It's really nice that you can import and export playlists with RhythmBox because all I have to do is rsync my files from computer to computer to keep everything up to day. I don't expect to be able to import RhythmBox playlists into the Ubuntu music app, but can somebody please tell me where and how the app stores it's playlist so maybe I can come up with a way to do it myself?

This is more of a question to help me try to understand more about Ubuntu Touch than it is me actually asking how to do it:

How would one run UT apps from the app store on regular old Ubuntu? In other words, I am currently running Ubuntu 18.04 on my desktop (and probably 20.04 here in a few months) and if there is a way to run the Open Store on my desktop and install apps and webapps how would you do that?

If you can't do that what are the main reasons that you can't?

I'm interested in getting Anbox working on my Nexus/hammerhead. The official docs mention that some phones need to be flashed with a special boot image but hammerhead isn't one of the phones listed that need it even though it is listed as having an image. I went ahead and followed the instructions but my wifi stopped working after flashing, so I had to reinstall UT. Then I though maybe you really didn't have to flash a new boot image so I tried to continue with the instructions and was unable to install anbox-ubuntu-touch because it said there was not enough space on the partition. So now I'm stuck and my questions are:

• Does hammerhead need to be flashed with the special boot image for anbox to work?
• If so has anybody tried recently to see if it still works?
• Has anybody had the issue I had where the wifi stopped working, and if so any suggestions on how to fix it.
• Do I assume correctly that flashing the special boot image gives you more space to install anbox or something?

Thanks in advance for any help.