@nom said in GSM SIM for Ubuntu touch on Nexus 5:

@trainailleur apologies, USA.

Either T-mobile or AT&T (or the smaller companies, that use their networks, such as Metro or Ting) should work. I have gotten good rates and service with T-moble for my UT devices.

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Steve Berson

@aimar said in OTA 10 problems:

Mainly webapps are which crash. They are in OpenStore, some old, but not all. For instance:
UBports Forum, last updated October 1st 2018

At least for this one there is a more recent alternative that works stably in my experience:
https://open-store.io/app/myutforum.josele13

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Steve Berson

If they were honest - both Google Play Store and Apple iOS App Store would come with gigantic ominous warnings for tons of apps as well - but they don't, even though you have way more to be concerned from the likes of them. I appreciate the blunt frankness, that UBports gives instead.

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Steve Berson

@MarkG_108 said in Open Store's warning sucks big. Can we have a "Safe Store"?:

@Photojoe4 Whether or not I (or anyone) decides to take risks is fine. But there should be a safe option for downloads as well. With Debian, there's "stable", "testing", and "sid" (aka unstable). Many choose not to install packages from "sid" and stick with "stable", to remain more safe.
In this case, with Open Store, there only seems to be one option, that being the potentially system breaking, performance reducing spying option. Where's the stable option?

The descriptions in the Open Store tells you exactly what permissions every single app requires. Once again - the vast majority of apps within the Open Store are confined. Once again - if an app is unconfined it is explicitly made known. YOU can choose which ones you want to install.

As for Ubuntu Touch OS itself - there is indeed a Stable channel, a Release Candidate channel (which receives tested weekly updates, and which I use with no problems for my daily driver device), a Developer channel (which receives mostly tested daily updates, but can once in a while have some regressions), and an "Edge" channel (which uses untested bleeding edge stuff).

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Steve Berson

@MarkG_108 said in Open Store's warning sucks big. Can we have a "Safe Store"?:

Be interesting to apply this to a food store:

"OpenFoodStore allows installing unconfined foods. [..] An unconfined food has the ability to break your body, reduce its performance and/or spy on you."

Hopefully no one would agree to such a thing regarding their health. That people feel it's okay for their devices and their privacy to be treated with such disregard is alarming.

They are NOT being "disregarded". Again - unconfined apps have their source code reviewed before being posted in the Open Store. And again - with such a small community of contributors, people can make their own decisions as to what app developers they trust, and they can make their own decisions as to what risks they are willing to take on. Frankly - Google and Apple allow much greater potential abuses while portraying themselves as fully secure. The warnings provided by the Open Store are to make known the fact that UBports does not have the resources to do 100% guaranteed audits of every single part of every single click provided in the Open Store - but they do due diligence by making people aware of what exactly permissions an app is in fact granted, and by making people aware of potential risks in any unconfined app (for which are rarer exceptions of what is available in the Open Store - most apps are in fact confined)

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Steve Berson

@MarkG_108 - yeah - uNav is a bit clunky in usage in my experience - but I think offline maps for Pure Maps should end up happening within a month or two - I've been really encouraged by how well it works, and it was just ported to Ubuntu Touch a couple weeks ago.

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Steve Berson

@MarkG_108 said in Open Store's warning sucks big. Can we have a "Safe Store"?:

"OpenStore allows installing unconfined applications. [..] An unconfined application has the ability to break the system, reduce its performance and/or spy on you."

Who in their right fucking mind would agree to such a thing? Can we not have a "Safe Store" where such an outlandish warning is not required?

The unconfined apps are manually checked by the UBports team before they are allowed onto the Open Store. But, given that the Open Store team has limited resources for audits, if those things are still of in any way a concern to you for any particular app - then you should most definitely not install it. fwiw - I have used a number of unconfined apps (such as the UT Tweak Tool, Launcher Modular, etc.) with no problems for 10 months as a daily driver. But if you have deeper security concerns for your own usage- you should stick only to the Core apps and the confined apps. As far as a "Safe Store" goes - if you can volunteer your own time and expertise towards making one happen - that will likely expedite it happening.

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Steve Berson

@kugiigi said in uappexplorer is down?:

@TotalSonic I think it was never maintained by Canonical.

If I am not mistaken, uAppExplorer was created by Brian which had the UT apps from the then Ubuntu Store and snaps. And during the transition to UBports, Brian created OpenStore and transitioned all UT apps to it so if anyone is specifically looking for UT apps then OpenStore is the way to go

Sorry - I was mistaken - I did not mean to provide incorrect info.

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Steve Berson

@MarkG_108 - there are two native map apps -
Pure Maps - https://open-store.io/app/pure-maps.jonnius
and uNav - https://open-store.io/app/navigator.costales

uNav currently has some limited offline abilities. Pure Maps, which seems to function better than uNav for most users, is planning on adding offline ability in a future update.

Other than that - there are a number of webapps, that might be able to help in route planning - https://open-store.io/?sort=relevance&search=maps

Best regards,
Steve Berson

@Opolork said in uappexplorer is down?:

@Lakotaubp said in uappexplorer is down?:

@Mic_ Think it's was discontinued some months back. It's all here now https://open-store.io/

It was up just a few days ago though. You mean it was not updated at all in months?

UAppExplorer, (EDIT: which I mistakenly thought was created and maintained by Canonical), has been completely discontinued - it has been disabled and is not coming back. It has been replaced by the Open Store, which is created and maintained by UBports. If you wish to browse and install the native Ubuntu Touch apps and webapps then you need to use the Open Store - https://open-store.io