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@Caterina'Catty'McCatface ? o.O
 
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01:38
Ugh. It's raining, on a day when I need to get shit done, and I got caught in it. It's not rained much and it's been hot.
01:57
@JourneymanGeek At least you didn't drank a lot and got a headache
7 hours ago, by That Brazilian Guy
So our coworkers decided to skip the evening and go to a bowling bar =D
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A: Stacking batteries to get 200 volts and 21 amperes

metacollinTLDR: No, you cannot use those batteries to power that motor. Nothing bad will happen if you try, but the safety cutoffs will engage the first time you try to turn it on and it just won't work. If your requirement demands more energy density and energy per kilogram than lead-acid can provide,...

this is a beautiful answer
> Once that happens, a LiIon cell generally goes into thermal runaway and the battery converts itself to fire. Lots and lots of fire.
> Regardless, your application is a high-drain motor application, and you must use batteries that are designed for such a load, which by definition camera batteries are not. Mostly because cameras are not 4200W motors.
nothing is working today
02:14
@CMDEmu Join them!
how do you people deal with it
imminant failiure
drugs?
@CMDEmu I had an app on my home server fail the other day. I ended up needing to completely reinstall the OS to fix it.
persoanally I like to beat up some chav or somebody simular to that
cus there pretty damn rude anyhow
and theres no shortage of em
you know your life is screwed if you can memorise your windows licence key off by heart
from reinstalling the ____ all the time
sometimes I wonder what was wrong with a pencil and paper
Bob
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Hand pain.
02:30
@JourneymanGeek KERNEL_SECURITY_CHECK_FAILURE :(
Apr 6 at 21:11, by bwDraco
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Your thoughts on the "looming memory power crisis"? I really hope video memory doesn't wind up dominating video card power consumption...
why the HELL cant the web just give me a driver with out giving me some CRAPWARE
why in the name of jesus would I want some crapware that needs the internet for a network driver
I HATE DRIVERS
I have until 4:59 to get this done
but thats not everything
02:52
says this VPn is free, I sign up then it asks me to fucking pay
So it seems I have inherited yet another old laptop
@CMDEmu typical
I mean are some people just looking for a smack or something
Ill do it for free but then charge them
This time this laptop I have inherited is decked out, really rugged design, even has nice Wacom integration (tablet mode with pen), fingerprint, extra hotswappable battery
But all it's missing is an ***ing key on the keyboard.
I mean at least you can still push it and it registers nice. But it's just so disappointing.
03:13
Woooooo.. boy. That could've been nasty. Almost left Registry::\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\ as a valid key for deletion in a script.
o gosh
where is reg del --no-preserve-root when you need it
@bwDraco selfie with sadface? :p
03:28
it wouldnt have deleted it anyhow @michaelfrank
it isnt actually a key iirc its something that is metadata that looks like one
sort of like saying 'delete my computer'
brb
@bwDraco there's a practical, near term limit to how much throughput and memory you will need tho.
It's going to be more of an issue for gpgpus
@Bob went to daiso to buy a banana holder. Bought a small lart instead.
@oldmud0 lol?
You mean "unset"?
JM :O
Oh, you mean reg del
I dont wanna start going to the fine details and such
03:38
@ThatBrazilianGuy You work in a bowling alley?
but tell me, do you grease it first?
@JourneymanGeek I had one going into the airport the other day, the screens over the security checkpoints had the "Windows is not activated" popup on display. Took a photo, in spite of the "No photos" signs
theres no shame in it of course
@JourneymanGeek Where does that go? ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
03:41
@MichaelFrank clearly you are a brave man.
Amusingly I got picked it up not realising it was a lart, or whatever or where ever @MichaelFrank likes having splinters.
I heard that lego make like little engines that vibrate, if thats your sort of fun
Maaaan. That went downhill fast.
03:58
it did.
Also... You apply cranial percussive maintenance with a LART
Or a cluebat.
im sensing that you like anime
I play drums and I hate computer
percussive maintenence
04:15
hello
04:35
I like technology and tea, but I think Taylor Swift is a demon
indeed you do!
!!taytaytay
@xkcbdz for some reason most of the oldtimers are fans ;p
a cute demon though, those are the worst ones
oh I thought it was a joke, I've liked some of her songs tbh
04:38
@xkcbdz in a sense its one of the running jokes here
you know what I hate, when I tried deamontools It o'd my computer, but when I asked my computer shop they said that it was legitimate and wouldnt have bsod'd it. yet like 5 years later, everybody knows it contains trojans/whatever
why didnt I trust my instinct
omg I have it installed right now
Does something not have trojans in it? yesterday I was looking for a VPN and in everyone forum I visited people said VPNs are full of trojans too
remove it immediatey if thats not a joke
not a joke, I do have daemon tools lite
removing...
How can this business still operate if everyone knows they have malware in the software they sell >.<
people around my area do tend to veer on the mentally slow
dunno why I belived him but I dont anymore with pracically anybody
04:47
likely the best advice ever
05:15
cause most people don't know
and it does do what it says it does
05:28
yea thats true, but I would think google would delete their page from the search engine or something
or alert you when you try to enter at least
05:53
Pretty sure the issue with Daemon Tools is just bundle crapware that is ticked by default.
Bob
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@CMDEmu eh, that's the nature of software.
Bad now doesn't mean it was always bad.
Good before doesn't mean it's still good now.
Your "instinct", at the time five years ago, was wrong.
@MichaelFrank Apparently it's more than that, but the effects are still blindingly obvious.
my instinct wasnt wrong
it was 2008/9
@Bob Gotta hit cancel a few times instead as well.
my av said there was a virus right after rebooting too
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@MichaelFrank I mean the effects of the installation. Things like rogue browser toolbars.
05:59
@Bob Ahh, right. I honestly haven't used DT for probably 10+ years. ^_^
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@CMDEmu That's par for the course. No A/V particularly likes driver installs, much less the ones required to get around copy protections.
but right after it bsod'd
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@MichaelFrank Dunno about DT specifically but I've danced around enough other bullshit installers.
which happned when I ran DT
nah it was a virus in DT
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@CMDEmu Again, couple be a simple driver conflict or bug, which is very very common. A BSoD does not imply malware by any stretch of the imagination.
You're seeing "oh, they ship malware now" to validate your instinct that they did so 7 years ago.
That's not a logical argument.
06:01
it bsoded right as I ran DT
the timing is too perfect
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So? That doesn't indicate malware.
It was a tool designed to install probably under-tested drivers - for legitimate purposes, mind.
but absence of proof, isnt proof of absence
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A BSoD isn't a "you have malware" warning.
It's a "something went wrong in the kernel or drivers" warning.
i know that
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06:02
@MichaelFrank ...yea, does feel like it.
but my AV said I did right after the pc restarted
so I think it was a trojan
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@CMDEmu And you have no proof that it had malware in '09.
but absence of proof isnt proof of absence
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I'm not saying it definitely did or didn't. I'm saying you're incorrectly trying to claim that it did based on invalid 'evidence'.
im making a leap
its more of a hop
im not gonna install it again just to double check
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06:05
You're saying "I always knew it!!!!!!".
knew as in percieve
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Also, when it comes to this kind of less-used driver, especially one that provides the ability to bypass copy protections, I'd trust an A/V warning about as far as I could throw it.
Being intangible, that's not very far.
i know av isnt always right.
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Especially without details of what it actually detected.
but other people have told me dt has trojans in it too
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06:07
Heuristic A/V was (and still is) utter shit.
it happned in 2009
I didnt make a note of exactually when
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@CMDEmu More recently, yes. Them and FileZilla and a dozen other formerly-good projects that now bundle crap in the installer.
but how do you know it didnt before
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06:08
That doesn't mean this was necessarily happening five, ten years ago.
I know
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@CMDEmu How do you know it did? Because that's what you're claiming.
@CMDEmu how did you know it did?
I dont
@Bob Jiiiinnnxxxx
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06:08
I'm not making a claim to the contrary. I'm just saying your claim is based on assumptions.
but all claims are
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Actually, as for how I know (don't remember DT, but FileZilla at least) didn't bundle crap in the installer before?
See what I said above about it being blindingly obvious?
...yea... it's not like they're going to any lengths to hide this.
Also there's a difference between blindingly terrible adware
Bob
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If they did ship malware a decade ago then it was far more subtle than what they're doing now.
and mildly terrible adware pretending to be semi legit
06:10
they might not have known it had malware in it
I think the company is legit
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Funny thing about the FileZilla one, actually.
im saying it got infected by another source
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The installer crap was added by SourceForge.
At the same time, though, the FileZilla maintainer refused to move to a different platform, so... yea.
@CMDEmu The only other source would be whoever you downloaded it from.
I downloaded it from the official website
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Installers with bundled crap have become surprisingly common now :\
06:13
Yes
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@JourneymanGeek Eh... terminology-wise I just call everything malware these days. Any given piece of adware very likely can also be described as spyware.
@Bob there's degrees tho
there's ones where they at least try to let you opt out
and there's shit like ask
I think there should be a law against it
it causes stress to the user for a start
thats why were all alcoholics
06:15
also
erf
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@JourneymanGeek Yea, most now have the opt-out (of questionable effectiveness).
I picked up a nice cheap hook, and it'll only attach to the side of my desk
which is unacceptable
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I've not seen actual 'sneaky' adware sources since using Windows 98...
I hate it when it installs crap-ware without asking me first
(complains about the lack of banana stands at daiso)
06:17
why are you so fascinated by stands
headphone stand, banana stands..
@CMDEmu banana stands make decent headphone stands
stand stands
mornings
bonks @CMDEmu with the mini LART
but where do the bananas go then!
06:18
so, I am torn a bit - should I install Arch or FreeBSD on my work desktop?
@tereško didn't you like freebsd better?
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...can I vote for a third option? :P
bbs
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But yea whatever you're more familiar with I guess.
also, I bought a pack of chair socks.
06:19
@JourneymanGeek as a server - without a question. But it's a desktop and with of deeply the DEs have been integrating with systemd, it's not as clear-cut as one would wish
so do you guys recommend an alternative to DaemonTools? I have pirated games wich isos need to be loaded
@tereško I'd go with fedora/kde or ubuntu for a desktop
@xkcbdzw we're not fans of piracy
dosen't windows 10 do native ISO mounts now?
wit's a "work desktop" ... which means that I will need it for development
sorry I meant legally purchased
and being stuck with php 5.3 on ubuntu 14.04 really not so fun
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06:21
@JourneymanGeek Chair... socks?
@JourneymanGeek iirc one of the reasons for DT was it bypassed those funny dead zone protections
and there was that one that installed a vulnerable driver
that microsoft has now blacklisted
@Bob little thick sock like things. For chairs
@JourneymanGeek yes apparently w10 mounts isos, thx for the info, and in my defense I do purchase games I really like to help the companies
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@JourneymanGeek ..?
@xkcbdz more like "hey, we do not talk about piracy here, its against terms of service)
@Bob clearly not what I'm using it for
oh ok, got it
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06:24
@JourneymanGeek I'm still confused
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@JourneymanGeek Eh, I've literally got more games in a certain library than I could play in years.
damn sales :P
I'm not using it on a chair. Using it for some other stuff ;p
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at least the recent sales haven't had many good ones
lol
I have a backlog ._.
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06:27
@JourneymanGeek Speaking of ... got time to deface some monuments take over the world later? :P
@Bob If it rains, maybe
Well keeps raining
Also, interview today
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@JourneymanGeek Oh? Same place as last time?
Yeah
second one
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Nice!
Apparently these guys have up to 6
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06:30
O_O
@Bob gitter
 
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why was this question of mine voted to be closed? superuser.com/questions/1067226/…
hmm ... decided: I will be trying to install FreeBSD on the work machine first and make a Arch USB just in case it all fails
@barlop I found both your question and answer unclear. The question title in particular is confusing. What does "what is being read before it?" mean? What is "it" in this context? The answer looks like a wall of text and could do with some formatting.
It means that assoc and ftype, provide a mapping between extension and a program to launch for that extension.
And for some reason, despite what I have specified by assoc and ftype
Some other application is loading, so it seems the OS is reading its data(on what application to launch) , from elsewhere before even checking assoc and ftype
09:14
I think interview went well \o/
@barlop That's a better description of your issue. Put that right at the start of the question. A better title might be "ftype changes are ignored. Where does Windows retrieve the "incorrect" value from? How can I enforce my changes?"
@Clippy get lost
@JourneymanGeek Great! :p
@DavidPostill thanks. edited.
hey guys!
I have created an server using twisted in python on ubuntu 14.04. It opens a port and clients send audio data to it. Now given that I know the port opened, how can I measure the bandwidth of connection required for good audio streaming.
@barlop np. vtc retracted ;)
Now you need to reformat your answer ;)
09:21
try and vote to close my answer ;-)
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!!tell 29136328 google linux measure bandwidth usage
@barlop Well I could downvote and then click the "delete" link ;)
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@JourneymanGeek :)
@DavidPostill well, it's better now
09:30
@barlop :p
09:52
Thanks!
bps    % desc
213.6k  31% tcp 122.xxx.xx.xx:50161 <-> 172.xx.xx.xx:47158
190.9k  28% tcp 122.xxx.xx.xx:50079 <-> 172.xx.xx.xx:47158
mmmh chocolate
so does this mean 213*1000/8/1024= 26Kb/s would be required?
measured using sudo pktstat -i eth0 -nt
How is WINE doing? I used it years ago but it failed a lot
or other programs that emulate windows in linux
Just went to check out somebody's computer.. they said they called mcaffee.. it was a number that came up on their screen and they wanted £200 for a year. I said they should uninstall mcaffee, but that aside, it's probably not mcaffee it's probably a scam. I asked them if they still have the number on their phone, they said yes and gave me the number. So I called them. they said they're support company, I said do they have a website, they said no.....
I said what do you support, they said we support a wide range of things. He said they have a website but only for clients. I said if you don't have a website, then how do you get new clients. He said how they get new clients is their idea, Why should they give me their idea!
try meth instead xkcbdz
09:59
I dont do hard drugs
just kidding, is it a program? can't find anything on google
oh wait
you were joking, took me a while, I get it, WINE, meth xD
you just reversed the joke
There is a program called MethLAB ;)
wine never really workedon mac for me
MethLAB: a graphical user interface package for the analysis of array-based DNA methylation data.
10:05
I succesfully played WoW on ubuntu after a month of trying to, there was a time I refused to use windows but liking videogames and linux is not compatible :/
bbl
One day it will be possible and I'll be happy af
How nice of them to provide an English version of their page
10:13
@CMDEmu TWSS
@OliverSalzburg such english
@OliverSalzburg It does say "beta" ;)
Indeed...
We just purchased fairmanager.net and that's the registrar we're left with for the next 60 days :P
I hope they can take care of pointing it to our NS for now
10:35
This is a list of known historical hoaxes on Wikipedia. Its purpose is to document hoaxes on Wikipedia, in order to improve our detection and understanding of them. It is considered a hoax if it was a clear or blatant attempt to make up something, as opposed to libel, vandalism or a factual error. A hoax is considered notable if it evaded detection for more than one month or was discussed by reliable sources in the media. This list is incomplete, as many hoaxes remain undiscovered. A hoax can be added to this page if it meets the requirements above. Do not list Wikipedia April Fools' Day pranks...
Geek Entertainment
twss?
oh
11:01
@RahulBasu Someone should add this hoax ;)
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Q: Recovering from a rm -rf /

bleemboyEdit: This is a hoax. I run a small hosting provider with more or less 1535 customers and I use Ansible to automate some operations to be run on all servers. Last night I accidentally ran, on all servers, a Bash script with a rm -rf {foo}/{bar} with those variables undefined due to a bug in the ...

lol
THAT QUESTION!
WOW
MUCH REP
I recently found that question from some "news article" in Google Now. I thought "Wow that sucks", then I clicked the link to the actual question and the first thing I read is "This is a hoax"
ugh, people are posting excellent answers to questions before I can even get started
@JourneymanGeek You're a mod. Quick! Delete them!
;p
Naw, I just upvote them
posted an answer covering different things that complements the other answer ;p
11:22
Hah, marked as a Hoax
theres a sign of success
when people start doing hoaxes
and it makes the media
@JourneymanGeek This be why my rep so bad
@djsmiley2k amusingly? Most people will remember him as the rm -rf guy
and the fact I don't know nearly as much stuff as the experts here
@JourneymanGeek hehe
I'm the rm -rf guy at a old job
Nuked a load of binarys from a running db
then they discovered from restoring, that they were all infact corrupt anyway
\o/ Saving the day by accident
polished up my mini-lart/cluebat with some sand paper ;)
Idea: can I alias rm -rf to mv into a looping file system
so the old files just get overwritten eventually
give it something like 10Gb loop
it's enough you can recover from a whoopsy
and restoring files might be 'fun' depending on what we do to them
11:39
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hmmm lols
good think you had backups right -_-
God I'm so bored - boss forcing 1/2 hr lunch break, sigh
 
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@Bob my mom owns a pair of pistons now ;p
@JourneymanGeek Hehe. Keep that up and she will be able to build a motorbike ;)
lol
model of headphone ;p
@JourneymanGeek I know. Was trying to be funny :/
She kept borrowing mine for a few weeks and one day was like "Could you order me one?"
ahh ;p
Ell
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Hi guys
13:43
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Q: Would a society which possesses knowledge of all aspects of science from the time of early culture likely still form religions?

ViziionaryConsider an advanced species unlocks all of the curiosities of science in our universe. They spend millions of years learning every fact, every mechanism of physics, and develop a perfect "Theory of Everything" - except they're able to test it so conclusively that they know it to be fact. Regardl...

Ell
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14:01
Anybody here got experience with OverlayFS?
14:13
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zat timing
15:06
Wow, that question and that comic. Hey, @JourneymanGeek the @XKCD is a bot, right? No one pulling its strings.
It just posts the latest comic. I just happens an eerie number of times.
Mhh, interesting. This should be blogged.
Semantically speaking, this would qualify as Paranormal Activity.
15:24
@HackToHell odd to ask that question when there is already no observable religion by the millions of species other than human on the one planet were on already. why doesnt an ant stop mid stride stare up into the sky and wonder how it got here, because it doesnt matter :-)
@Psycogeek Ants don't have the required processing power. Funnily enough we have ICs that can be held in their mandibles. Their functions and movement are well predictible and can be remodelled to a good extent. I think most anima...err, lesser beings have a sense of culture though. Elephants have funerals for their dead. Who knows what the dolphins think of us. All in all, its best we dont think about it.
are we underestimating the intelligence of "lesser species" or overestimating that of the humans :-)
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Q: Will Someone help me?

user7291Trying to change my life back to good. Hard to do when u find out that you've been getting duked for years. No more tears. Knowledge is power so I need a team to help me Perla back the many layers that someone has attached to most every mobile phone, computer, car, home, work, etc that I've had ...

@Psycogeek Both ofcourse. So much so, that one day the lingo we used to describe them today will be absolutely racist.
But it ain't today :-)
in that ^ question up there what is the person talking about? (seems like I am supposed to know from reading it)
15:41
@Psycogeek Be it a troll or a whiny help vampire, best not to feed it. Their problems outweigh all the tech, tea and Taylor Swifts in the world.
he thougt telling everyone that he lost data would promote his startup??
:/
any pr is good pr
lol
olds.
he even has a snopes page now
I say, I just noticed that my rep doesn't increase with the question of the month posts... Any particular reason?
see comments ;p
15:51
you don't get rep from meta posts?
nope
and that belongs on meta anyway
I know, just curious...
meta se is different
site specific metas are child meta & derive rep from parent
ok...
funny how i never noticed this before...
@Sathya Wish SE had more than the old Q&A struct. Things are much funner in forums.
15:57
that's kind of our selling point tho
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Q: Desktop 'DejaVu' - Gnome

user11449I don't know whether this happens only to me. I've been having a doubt whether Gnome is spying on me. Please don't misunderstand me. I have been observing that every time I turn on my Linux notebook, I'm seeing a "pixelated" picture showing up for some seconds before the actual User Interface loa...

no bullshit.
Except maybe chat
Desperate atempts for rep
^^
I dunno, I've had enough of forums tbh
that person's gonna get question banned at this rate
@Sathya Yeah, same bulky php styling is annoying, i know. I think I saw some better forum base on Github a year back. Don't know what happened to it.
@RahulBasu Let him try. Others will learn.
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