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<p>Hi All,</p>
<p>I confess I finally gave up on resurrecting my personal Wordpress
site and opted to pay webnames.ca to do the same thing. I've
started posting there, if you're interested, at
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://westernreflections.ca/">https://westernreflections.ca/</a> <br>
</p>
<p>My success was when my new Linux pinephone arrived from
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://pine64.com">https://pine64.com</a> . This booted up, when the tab was removed from
the battery, straight into Ubuntu Touch, which was great because I
run KUbuntu on my dual boot main computer. Unfortunately, the
update function (in the app "Discover") immediately cashed citing
missing dependencies. I tried the command line, but this crashed
for the same reason. <br>
</p>
<p>The workaround is to boot from a MicroSD card, so I got a 64GB
card and a Logiix adapter and looked up what I needed next. This
turned out to be a boot loader called "Tow-Boot" without which
Ubuntu Touch will not boot on the Pinephone. To flash that, I
needed another program, "balenaEtcher" and a third program "Disks"
which was already in my app list. <br>
</p>
<p>Tow-Boot flashed easily and booted itself on the Pinephone on
startup. It has an great graphical interface and installed itself
on the main memory in a few seconds. I then reformatted the
MicroSD card to get rid of the self-booting Tow-Boot and tried the
same process with at least three Ubuntu Touch images. Nothing
worked. One gave me a blank screen, another put the red light on
and kept it on. So I tried another OS, Mobian. This WAS a success,
but several of its apps didn't work, including the update
function, which had a manual option with no controls. <br>
</p>
<p>Next was postmarketOS which not only worked immediately, but
greeted me with an animated welcome message before showing me the
login page. Here, every app available worked and was able to add
the Brave and <a href="https://www.falkon.org/">Falkon</a>
browsers, and Telegraph. Telegraph needed verification via a QT
code, and this worked, and its internal video worked! Very
impressive.<br>
</p>
<p>Are there downsides, yes. The battery life isn't good. You have
to turn on WiFi every time and navigation between pages is
confusing (at least to me). Still, it's just at the start of
things, and fun to watch Linux phones develop.</p>
<p>Frank Hilliard<br>
</p>
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