AlaskaLinuxUser's Scratchpad

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

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 …

Installing Ubuntu Touch on the FLX1

Recently, I came in possession of a Furi FLX1 Phone. It is really cool in many ways, and yet, still has a ways to go to be a useful phone, in my opinion. One of the things I was able to do with it though, was load Ubuntu Touch. Ubuntu …

Workaround for DVDStyler crashes in Linux

If you are not familiar with DVDStyler, it is/was a great tool for creating your own DVDs. It allows you to add videos, create titles, use themes, custom buttons, and more. But I say is/was because it is still around, but was working great before, and does not …

Is it really open source?

Recently, while looking around F-Droid forum, I found a post about a person who wanted to build Android apps, but did not want to use Google's Android-SDK, which comes with an EULA, or Google's Android Studio, because it is proprietary. You can read their forum posts here:

https://forum.f-droid …