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You could use pacmd to gather the list of microphones and monitors. ffmpeg supports "-f pulse" in place of your "-f alsa".

Nice article. Any particular reason you built curl from source rather than pull the deb from the archive with "stage-packages: curl" ?

It's a bit academic right now as there are no Ubuntu phones on sale, but yes, that would be a great page to make.

Indeed. I wrote that before there was a backup tool built into Ubuntu Phone. I saw a demo of the backup tool a few months back, but don't know if it landed yet.

In lieu of such a tool, I wrote a crappy shell script to backup my Ubuntu Phones. :)

https://github.com/popey/buds

You can actually flash a Meizu and continue to get OTA updates now.

Various personalised stats show. Each dot around the circle is a day of the month with the current day highlighted. In the centre it will show things like number of minutes, sms sent/received, photos taken, tracks played, miles walked etc. The balloons around the edge are larger on days when you do more. So you get a personal visual representation of how you use your phone.

Disclaimer (because it seems to upset people here), I work for Canonical ;)

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OnePlus devices are indeed on the roadmap for community ports. If people are interested in helping with that effort, I'm sure the people working on it would appreciate it.

I've seen a few comments over the last few days speculating about us halting development on Ubuntu phone. Nothing could be further from the truth. The software development continues apace, and more devices and more ports to existing devices on the way next year.

I never claimed to be any good at English :)

Me either. Although I'm in the "Before around 1970" group, so maybe I'm self-selecting my experience based on my similar-age peer group.

Like this? http://i.imgur.com/2iNYCbI.png :)

(or did you mean the ereader? Not tried, sorry)

Yes and no. The phone image is read-only by default, with RW areas for user data / tmp / logs etc. You can easily make the RO portion RW, and then apt-get or dpkg install random packages. However the caveat is we never test that scenario, so if you break it, you get to keep the pieces. You can then re-flash it to get out of this of course.

In progress. The bq device doesn't support it.

Not a coincidence. :)

GSM yes, 3G no.

You'd have to ask Meizu, they decide which handset they ship.

Later this year.

14:00 BST is 13:00 UTC, not 15:00 UTC.

Surely this is nothing more than an advert for an amazon (and other) affiliate site? Saying "not an original idea" doesn't give carte blanche to basically spam a site.

You can buy them direct from the manufacturer, Tranquil PC. http://www.tranquilpcshop.co.uk/ubuntu-orange-box/ £7,575.00 is the base price.

I've been using Syncthing for some months now and it's working well for my use case of keeping laptop/desktop and home server files in sync. I had one occasion when I lost everything as I'd brought up syncthing on my server without the "sync" directory mounted. It happily deleted all files from my synced laptop as a result. That's now fixed, but it was a buttock clenching moment. Yay backups, and a third machine (desktop) which was suspended and thus out of sync, so still had my data.

Upstream developer is very friendly and attentive & seems happy to discuss new features and use cases.

From their FAQ, which to me means "no".

" Is Foldscope an open hardware project? Do you have plans for the same?

We are currently exploring best possible ways to provide quality tools to largest number of people. We have two missions; one in healthcare and one in education. We are exploring all possible options to bring this tool to the masses and exploring licenses that allow us to do this in a sustainable manner. More information about this will be available here soon. "

Indeed, upgrades aren't prompted for LTS users in Update Manager (Software Updater) until the .1 release hits. Intrepid souls are of course free to upgrade before that.

For anyone who does have the time and inclination to debug this there are some comprehensive docs on the wiki https://wiki.ubuntu.com/X/Debugging - I've used these steps to get backtraces before so devs can get stuff fixed.

There was a nasty bug recently with xorg (Intel driver) eating RAM then the kernel OOM killer would swoop in and kill the desktop. I filed a bug on launchpad and the upstream Intel driver maintainer was super attentive and got it fixed. It was a rough time while the issue was around, but it happens..

Not just kernel. dist-upgrade will pull in any new dependency required by an upgraded package.

Yeah, I've been running it for some weeks on my laptop and desktop. It's been pretty robust (Intel video driver issues aside) for me.

Yes, but I would either use Software Updater (update manager) or "sudo apt-get update" followed by "sudo apt-get dist-upgrade" (not upgrade as suggested above). Just a minor nitpick.