AlaskaLinuxUser's Scratchpad

Commit thy works unto the LORD, and thy thoughts shall be established. - Proverbs 16:3

Updating UT apps: GearSystem and other apps

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Continuing on my journey to update about 200 Ubuntu Touch apps from Xenial to Focal, I once again released more apps on the open-store. Among them was a personal favorite, which is GearSystem. GearSystem is a Sega Game Gear and Sega Master System emulator, so you can play all your …

Trading in WordPress for Pelican

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Since 2018, I've been using WordPress as my CMS, Content Management System, for my blog. WP is a really handy program for writing blogs, it comes with tons of features, and great add ons, as well as a lot of documented support. It also comes with PHP requirements, JavaScript, and …

Ubuntu Touch: Are Clicks Secure

I've been spending a lot of time working on Ubuntu Touch clicks lately. For those who don't know, a click is the UT name for an app. If you've been reading my blog, then you'll notice that I'm on a mission to update about 200 apps from the old UT …

Updating UT apps: OhSteem and a dozen other apps!

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Continuing on my journey to update about 200 Ubuntu Touch apps from Xenial to Focal, I have released a dozen apps on the open-store. Of course, I didn't build these apps, I'm just updating them, so I make sure to write in the description of the apps that all the …

Updating UT apps: PopThatWrap! and Pulse-app

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Continuing on my journey to update about 200 Ubuntu Touch apps from Xenial to Focal, I once again released two more apps on the open-store. Pulse-app is an application for tracking your pulse over time, and PopThatWrap! is an entertaining application where you simply pop fake bubble wrap... it even …

Updating UT apps: Chess Clock and SimplePrint

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Continuing on my journey to update about 200 Ubuntu Touch apps from Xenial to Focal, I recently released two more apps on the open-store. Both of these apps were useful for me, and that is why I decided to do them next.

Of course, I forked the repositories, updated them …

Updating UT apps: Ambient and Sudoku

In my continuing quest to be useful to the Ubuntu Touch community, I recently found that there were about 300 apps made for Xenial, the 16.04 version of UT, that didn't get updated for the current version of UT, which is Focal (20.04). Of these apps, I went …

Updating a gem to an emerald for Ubuntu Touch

After switching to Ubuntu Touch on my phone for a daily driver, I realized that there was no app in the open-store (open-store.io) for UT that allowed you to surf/browse the gemini protocol. I've talked about gemini space and gemini blogs (called gemlogs) here before, so feel free …

Convert your Firefox passwords to PASS for UTPass

Recently I switched to Ubuntu Touch as my daily driver for a phone. Whenever you change phone operating systems, there is a steep learning curve and an extended process of moving your digital life. If you use Android and Google, moving to another Android Google phone is fairly simple, or …

Startup hangs on "systemd-tmpfiles-setup.service"

My last update on Ubuntu didn't go very well. After the typical sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade -y, the system downloaded and installed the usual assortment of packages. When it was done, it required a reboot to finish the installation, because of the updated kernel. So, I clicked the …