battery
"Not having a removable battery is a dealbreaker for me so the Librem 5..."
I just went to their own web site, and they clearly say the battery is serviceable/replaceable.
To be clear, you mean you want a phone with an externally removeable battery? Just
click off? I can't remember the last phone I owned which had that.
@dshimer I agree, I was off ubports for a bit because my wife's phone died and she needed (Android, sigh) a replacement quickly, thus a Nexus 5 was used up. But I presently laid hands on another, and here I am back with a daily driver again! This one was, hmmm, like $60, with everything including battery in good condition.
@PINE64 For shipping of batteries, I suggest that you fab a flashlight which uses the same battery. One switch, one LED, minimal plastic case. Then you can ship a battery within a device, national post office regs are satisfied, and the recipient can perhaps crack open the flashlight and use the battery elsewhere. 
FWIW, I used pypi.org/project/notify2/ which uses the dbus, worked for my own notification app.
I have a bug unique to the Morph browser. I knew how to invoke the debugger under the old browser--what's the wisdom on this new one? TIA!
OTOH, I just today found a spare OTG USB cable in hand, and tried plugging in a mouse. Which worked very well--hats off to the UT folks.
@libremax said in Making Ubuntu Touch an easy choice:
The development of UT has to be embedded in a long time, several decades in the same way that GNU/Linux software emerged in the 70s and 90s and only became known to tens of millions of users in the 2000s.
No reason to be impatient only to show consistency and determination.
Well, I don't think Linus was doing his thing in the 70's, but otherwise I agree with your sentiment.
Many kept waiting for the thing or decision or Big Business which would make Linux win. But it really just kept being there, attracting enthusiasm and moving forward. It was just suddenly obvious and inevitable.
So I think the project is doing all the right things. Catch up with a shared SW base. Fix the abandoned browser. Over time adopt a new flagship and, yes, set some old supported devices aside (I'm already a little worried about the flawed binary blobs in my Nexus 5). Keep chipping away at what's missing, what's broken--software and docs. If you keep at it, odds are you'll run across things which will make UT stand out. Especially since the big players can make game changing mistakes (I'm watching Google's tensions with the EU and their increasing control of Google Apps with interest).
Re: Caller Blocking?
So I couldn't stand it any more, and remembered an old Nokia N900 hack which sorta did the job. I have a daemon running now which watches for calls on the dbus, and hangs them up if they're in my blacklist config file:
http://sources.vsta.org:7100/webXMPP/dir?ci=tip
You want the tools/blacklist.py file in that project, if you want to check it out.
No, it's not a GUI or a package; if somebody wants to work with me to wrap this
in something prettier, I'd be happy to help.
I couldn't find any way to get word back to my carrier that they're not even worth
a shot in voicemail. But at least they can't ring my phone....
@haveaniceday said in Set partition sizes when flashing:
@vandys I just did this on a M10 frieza an it worked like a charm.
"Fools rush in where angels fear to tread". Given your prompting, I did it too (ubuntu.img and
system.img appear to be two links to the same underlying inode) and... success. I now have
lots of room on my partition for any more packages. Very nice! So mark as a workable
technique on Nexus 5, too. Many thanks.
I have to say that the transition to Xenial was a huge step, almost a defining milestone for the project. I think you made the right call after that big hurdle to get it out, even with some imperfections. Maybe from here on onward you might choose to hold back, but I think for something as big as your new release, it was right to get it out in the world rather than letting it drag on like one of those never-released "1.0"'s.