this is the off topic section of forum

i feel like it was a fair assumption that the UT forum would have people on it who use ubuntu on a computer, and may have some useful information to share with me

i get tired of copy and paste responses on dedicated forums, by people who dont read posts, dont understand what they are copying, or who want to insist that the OP has no right to do something

...i miss the days when forum where full of informative and helpful people. so thanks for the useful replies.

I thought i would give 20.04 a try on my macbook, mostly it works - but i am havingvery strange issues using apt/apt-get

it keeps telling me i have held broken packages - i do not; dpkg --get-selections | grep hold, confirms this

(i still ran the usual update/upgrade/autoremove, just incase)

But when i try to install, for eg, libasound2-dev (for mycroft), apt insists i have held broken packages - running dev_setup for mycroft (from github) gives me the same error

It also tells me i need libasound2, which is already installed

I get this with allot of packages i try to install, and i am starting to wonder if snaps is the cause? I dont see how it should be, but perhaps canonical has done something which is breaking apt, in favour of snaps?

installing mycroft via snaps works ... until you run it, then it breaks trying to install dependencies lol

not sure what further options there are in regards apt believing there are broken packages, dpkg telling me there are not, and synaptic claiming to have fixed dependencies / broken packages but the issue remaing..

guessing there are some Ubuntu 20.04 users out there, any ideas?

It seems the SMS app is stripping out new lines, i have tried adding double new lines, but the text still gets sent as one long and difficult to read sentence

on the off chance there is a work around, im posting here? any special chars which might break this behavior? otherwise i think new sms per new line is the only option lol

nexus 5, stable stream

getting ovpn files to import would be massive, that is by far the most painful bit atm lol i could live without an app, if i could quickly import the 200 odd connections i use easily

i have been unable to fix this issue, if the screen is on and device locked, the screen never goes off (regardless of idle settings)

this is starting to be an issue, because when i get a message or email or call, the screen of course switches on, and then it never switches off, so if i get something just as im going to sleep that i dont see, my phone screen is on all night any suggestions?

i am confusedhow to play a playlist, first one i played, i hit the play button top right, and it started fine, selected a different playlist and hit play top right again, nothing happens, the playlist is qued, but it doesnt download or play

actually it just crashed when i pressed play again .. sorry i cant access github to submit bug at the moment, i can drop logs here if you want ( let me know which)

awsome, so far seems to work great! thanks for making this ..now just need audible and i can leave my android home forever lol

home page is blank, is it supposedto be? bit fddly usingthe play buttons at the top of the que list, but i wonder if home page is supposedto have a larger play interface?

i would expect allot of problems with banking apps and anbox, those apps requirestringent security from the OS

@atchoumm most banks also offer chip readers as an alternative authentication method, ask your bank for one (most banks give them away free)

i have launcher autohide off, and windowed mode on, and i find the windows do not adjust to the keyboard when maximised, for eg i cannot see the text input in sms while typing

i know they are able to adjust to the keyboard, as they do when in normal UT mode, does anyone know where that switch might be? if it is actually a switch which might work in windows mode too?

for now i just normalise windows when i need, but would be nice to enable the adjustment automatically, even in windowed mode

to be clear, it solved itself, after the phone screen was left on unintentionally for 11hrs on lockscreen (idle time out doesnt work for me)

(i tried all but 1 suggestions before making the thread, and they didnt work for me, i didnt switch channel stable/dev, but that seems to have worked for someone else)

L came back half an hour ago lol back to full speed - my phone screen had been on for 11hrs, on lock screen (unintentionally, screen refuses to automatically switch off on lock screen), so perhaps the OS was not able to restablish 4G connection while the screen was off?

wasn't a network issue, not one that was made public anyway - carriers dont tend to hide network issues tbh

i am on stable, but if it happens again i will consider trying a switch ... this is my main phone now though, i dont need more instability hehe

only getting 7-8mbps the last 12hrs, i expect 4 times that on an average day with EE LTE, more on a good day

but that is what i would expect for 3G, so the error is not the letter display, i just dont have LTE any more

before a few days ago, it said L, which is what i expect

... i will run some speed tests over the next 24hrs and see what it says, def feels slower

hmm i included that, thats rle wierd lol

UK, NOS nexus 5, ee

i had lte until a few days ago coincided with wifi breaking, and the phone didn't fall over to data

The last few days ive lost LTE/4G, only H shows up - tried the usual fixes, reset APN a couple of times, got carrier to reset, but no joy - any ideas?

@ell1e

yes that is a solution, but any password long enough to make brute force a waste of time, is going to be very difficult to remember or enter regularly (unless combined with a hardware key on the device security chip)

for most people that probablyisnt an issue, but fkr anyone who genuinely needa the encryption, it probably would be

(edit : he typos above are good example of why a password is not ideal for phone encryptionlol ..unfortunatly i find UTs keyboard v buggy, random spaces, deleting spaces, changing capitalisation randomly, duplicated letters,etc, at the moment)

one work around could be an NFC key, which provides the encryption key, without having to get into the hardware security tech of different phones

i already do that, but it is not persistent, after reboot it has to be set again