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7:15 PM

Community event: multi-player 0 A.D. game scheduled for 2016-01-17.

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edward torvalds

hi all

hi

edward torvalds

@ParanoidPanda hi, I am not able to connect my bluetooth headphone in A2DP mode on Gnome desktop but I can in KDE 5?

user136984

@Nathan: The Militaristic Federation of the Arguing Pandas now officially declares war on you.

oh, lawd

7:18 PM

19 hours ago, by Seth

@NathanOsman meh, just post it.

^--- official word of moderator

user136984

@Serg: Sorry, don't know.

:P

-1? Really?

user136984

@Nathan: And these are the official words of The Militaristic Federation of the Arguing Pandas.

Rock beats scissors. Scissors beat paper. Paper beats rock. And moderator beats panda. Sorry.

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I am kind of in the mood for cooking , probably I'll put on some rice into the cooker

7:24 PM

@ParanoidPanda seriously, back off a bit please.

Rinzwind

@Serg I never am. Ordered scampi and hot wings :=D

Right now you're the one arguing for a change, not the other way around.

but muru has an interesting idea, there is a site "events" thing we can use too.. I'll have to figure out exactly how it works though.

user136984

@Seth: I am only wanting it to be more clearly stated in about section on Meta which currently does not cover this. Though the Pandas of this realm would find events acceptable.

user136984

@Seth: But they are also declaring war on you.

-.-

FWIW we can't edit that meta help page, so if you want to change it you're going to have to lobby SE.

user136984

7:27 PM

FWIW?

FWIW == For What It's Worth.

user136984

But what if SE don't want to because they don't want these sorts of questions which we have?

Also, if you're fine with it (which you certainly don't come across as) please edit your question to make that clear.

@ParanoidPanda This isn't isolated to Ask Ubuntu.

You need to spend more time on other metas ;)

Gaming.SE does these events too.

Q: Community Event - multi-player 0 A.D. game [2016-01-17]

This is what meta is for.

To an extent.

Ask Ubuntu Meta

7:28 PM

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user136984

Yeah, but they are for gaming so you would expect that.

user136984

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user136984

@Seth: Fine, but the rules definitely need to be more clear on this.

user136984

Most of them seem to have the fun tag, maybe you could go and define that?

7:37 PM

@Rinzwind don't you like adventures and making a mess in the kitchen ? :D

Rinzwind

@Serg I like adventures yes. The role playing kind. And my kitchen is spotless.

@Rinzwind because you don't use it to cook??? :P ;-)

@Seth By the way, the conspiracy theory question has the locked message on it

locked by animuson♦ Nov 23 '13 at 15:54

This question exists because it has historical significance, but it is not considered a good, on-topic question for this site, so please do not use it as evidence that you can ask similar questions here. This question and its answers are frozen and cannot be changed. More info: help center.

Although panda is making a bit too much stir out of this question, but it's a valid question

How far into the fun can we go ?

Rinzwind

@Fabby correct :=)

@Serg All the way! :D

(as far as fun is concerned)

7:49 PM

My Mexican coworker gave me a recipe for Lomo Saltado. It's a pity I've not tried it yet. My winter break is almost over, but what I've spend it on ? Being sick . . .such shame . . .

@Serg that's why there is a winter break: to allow people being ill in their own time...

Note: "being sick" in British English is a euphemism for "vomiting"... :D @Serg

@Fabby sure, I cannot complain about having the time on recovering but I hoped to do other things, too. Ah, anyhow . . . The amount of coughing i've done actually nearly led me to vomiting :D

user136984

@Serg: Which conspiracy theory question? :D

@Serg most of them are closed and locked now because they're so old.

@Serg >:-)

7:58 PM

@Seth sure . . . but it also says " it is not considered a good, on-topic question for this site" . . . . See, my stance is also on Nathan's side . . . but there's really lack of clarity . . . are we allowed to goof on meta or not ?

Not even goof . . . Nathan's question ain't even about goofing . . .just about a game for AU folks . . .

Probably the core of the question is : what's the limit to which we can use Meta . . .

@Serg within reason, we are. Meta had a problem back in the day where they goofed too much, and that's a little of what you're seeing up there.

Hi crowd, just a few seconds stop to say hello :)

@JacobVlijm hello, nice seeing you come to chat more often :) Any new python scripts ?

user136984

@Seth: I've edited my question by the way.

@Serg not today, but I will add a fully automatic version here askubuntu.com/questions/718453/… tomorrow :)

8:06 PM

Guess who switched to GNOME? :)

@JacobVlijm Hello! :D

@blade19899 your aunt?

@JacobVlijm Yes. Yes, my aunt switched to gnome...

Hi @Fabby!

lol

No, me.

8:07 PM

@JacobVlijm :D :D :D

Unity, just don't wanna play nice with my machine, GNOME3, at the moment, runs smoothly.

hehe, if my aunt switched to GNOME . . . no , even to Ubuntu for starters, I'd be really surprised

@Fabby have been out all afternoon, anything new?

@Serg I've shown her Ubuntu and she wanted Windows 10

Yaaaaaay, 0ad scheduled game!!!!!

8:08 PM

@Fabby you need to improve your marketing skills :p

@JacobVlijm Naah, nothing important...

@Fabby 10 sucks. lol, starting next week, win8, is no longer supported, said MS. xD

Windows never was supported 😆

@JacobVlijm um . . . how do I get PIL module ? ImportError: No module named 'PIL'

@Serg really? What are you rinning? It is installed by default here.

8:11 PM

Dammit, in amsterdam the 0ad scheduled game is at: 23:00. I have to work the next day.

@JacobVlijm Ubuntu 14.04 , in Unity right now . . .python3 is there . . .

I have /usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/PIL

that's what I've found with locate PIL command

@Serg let me look...

@Serg python3-pil it is

user139252

Pip install pil?

@JacobVlijm changing to #!/usr/bin/env python seems to chose python 2.7, which uses PIL . . . .

@HeatherBrown Phil installed pip :)

user139252

8:15 PM

Phil took a chill pill, but it was nihl

@Serg off course, it is #!/usr/bin/env phyton3

@HeatherBrown :)

@JacobVlijm so . . . am I in trouble with my python3 ? do I need some extra libraries ?

@Serg I think sudo apt-get install python3-pil should work

@HeatherBrown :D nihil???

8:38 PM

@Serg, I checked on a second system here, there was no python3-pil installed on that one. Edited it into the answer. I owe you :)

@JacobVlijm On my 15.10, it's installed.

@ByteCommander AHA, good to know. I am not sure if I ever installed it, or it came with something else.

@ByteCommander (14.04 on this one)

Q: How can I find out why a package was installed?

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How can I find out why a particular package was installed? Is it part of the default installation? Was it specified manually, or was it chosen automatically to meet dependencies? Which packages are dependent on it? When was it installed?

package-management dependencies

In my case, python3-pil was needed by the hp printer package 'hplip'.

(from aptitude why python3-pil)

@ByteCommander greatgreat, thanks! [i python3-matplotlib Aanbevelingen python3-imaging
i A python3-imaging Vereisten python3-pil (>= 2.3.0-1ubuntu3)]

@Seth (or other mod): That's a merge candidate: askubuntu.com/q/4502/367990 - -I voted to close as dupe.

8:52 PM

done

@JacobVlijm Glad I was able to help, it was quite frankly by accident :)

OP from 2014's question returned and accepted my answer O_O

@Serg but a helpful accident :) hate to see an answer not work at the first attempt

@Serg which one?

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Q: The checkmark is freakin' large

Ok all, have to zliep, see you!

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Judge yourself. Compared to the size of the voting buttons and score, it's unusually (comparing to other sites) large. I'd consider this to be a bug. If it's not a bug, then it's a feature request.

feature-request bug

8:59 PM

@JacobVlijm see ya

@JacobVlijm Good night.

I'll leave now as well... Bye!

OK, the OP in that meta question is ridiculous

9:15 PM

OK, I'm out

peace !

Q: Noob with a Lenovo Y50-70 running Ubuntu 15.10 w/ Nvidia 960m not running or even showing up

@AskUbuntuMeta oh please.

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Title says it all, i have tried using PPA's and bumblebee and the correct Nvidia drivers but nothing works. Any ideas would be great. Thanks

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Zacharee1

@UbuntuQuestionsonU&L is that Mateo's friend?

Or whoever was setting up swap?

thebluesquirel

9:52 PM

hi

anyone here?

@Zacharee1 I sure hope not.

I'm here.

oops

I just realized that message was posted way out of context :)

there we go :)

Yeah :P

user136984

10:07 PM

If I ever become a moderator, I'm going to change the name of this room to "Panda High Command"... >:P

user136984

Anyway, goodnight! ;)

10:33 PM

@NathanOsman Do you want to help me test my 0 A.D. setup? I don't have a ton of time, but I can carve out a half hour or so.

Sure - what do I need to do?

I was gonna have a go at hosting a server, since I couldn't get it working before.

Okay.

Can you send the IP address via Hangouts?

same IP as before, but I'll resend it.

Thanks.

Connecting...

Oh hang on.

Gotta reboot real quick to get to my setup.

I'll be about 1 minute.

10:36 PM

ok!

Connecting for real this time...

Hmmm...

Doesn't seem to be working...

hmm

we verified that the port was open before..

@NathanOsman try again.

forgot to turn off the firewall.. although I thought I had added a rule.

There.

hbdgaf

11:45 PM

@AskUbuntuMeta actually pixel for pixel the same size...

gg @NathanOsman!

Having only ever played the AI I was not prepared for how powerful those walls were :)

I love to garrison soldiers in city walls :)

When I first scouted those out I was confused why you were "wasting" resources on them lol.

Then I hit my head on 'em.

I used to avoid walls since they were fairly easy to knock down.

whelp, back to work. Thanks again!

11:48 PM

But once I discovered how much you could cluster them together... :P

@Seth No problem.

@NathanOsman a very good formula :)

You officially won, by the way. 11118 to 6749 (final score according to the game).

@Mateo you up for a game?

:)

ooo, right now?

Only if you want to.

sure

I was going to do some nexus 4 stuff, but that sounds fun

11:50 PM

Well, don't let me take you away from that.

Your choice.

;P

did I show you the slimport cable came

Let me just check my firewall.

@Mateo No, I didn't see that.

10 hours ago, by Mateo

Cool!

That's for video?

yep, hdmi out from the nexus 4

11:53 PM

BTW, when you're ready, the hostname of my server is home.quickmediasolutions.com. Saves you from remembering an IP address :)

cool

@NathanOsman i'm in