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Omg

m.slashdot.org/story/315091

I have not had any issues with compatibility in Ubuntu and my NVIDIA cards.

@Zanna we all Linux and Nvidia are always iffy, but at least there's support

@Zacharee1 Yeah, good luck taking Apple or Samsung to court.

@terdon well here's the thing

I don't have to prove to them rooting didn't cause the problem

they have to prove that it did

which means I can void KNOX and keep my warranty as long as what I do doesn't cause issues

cool

5:04 PM

@Zacharee1 That sounds wonderful and is probably absolutely true. However, they'll just say that your warranty is void and the only way to get them to change their minds would be to take them to court.

hmm

I've been told that my rooting voided the warranty. Short of taking the certified technician to court, I don't see how I could have changed anything.

you could point them to the federal law

because they probably don't know about it

Then just hire a lawyer that doesn't collect fees unless you win.

@Zacharee1 you could certainly try :)

5:07 PM

well

> “They have to show that the jailbreak caused the failure. If yes, they can void your claim (not your whole warranty—just the things which flowed from your mod),” Steve Lehto, a lemon law attorney in Michigan, told me in an email. “If not, then they can’t.”

I wish you the best of luck with it but I wouldn't get my hopes up. Remember that you'll just be talking to a clerk whose primary objective is to get you to pay for stuff.

They don't care about the law since their job is to apply company policy. If the policy is illegal, you'll have to prove it in a court of law.

This article is making me think they have no policy

they just try to make it seem like they won't accept rooted phones and hope no one tests it

> The Magnuson-Moss Warranty Act, passed by Congress in 1975, notes that “a warrantor cannot, as a matter of law, avoid liability under a written warranty where a defect is unrelated to the use by a consumer of ‘unauthorized’ articles or service.”

edwinksl

"How to install Lubuntu on Windows 98SE" wow windows 98

o/

This copyright.gov/1201/2015/fedreg-publicinspectionFR.pdf Actually says that you can Jailbreak or root your device. =)

5:11 PM

So I just woke up to this:

@NathanOsman Hello!

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Q: Badge Notification Repeats

Not sure if someone else has already raised this - I've got eleven notifications that I've received a Caucus badge on English Language Learners. Perhaps one notification for each community that I'm a member of? I am a member of the community, and did visit the election. Also, the badge hasn't be...

@NathanOsman lol

wish I could wake up to +65..

It's a bug.

What's worse, the notification keeps coming in but the badge isn't awarded.

@fedorqui yeah, I noticed that after posting this and left a comment to that effect on the dupe. I have now received yet another notification, but no badge. I'm starting to think there's something like if(!$badgeAwarded){awardBadge(); notifyUser} and there's a bug in awardBadge so it's stuck in a loop. — terdon 7 hours ago

5:18 PM

lol askubuntu.com/review/suggested-edits/608051

the joke trolls are here

dino

> I get a 404 on the new link

someone thought it might have been a real link

@Zanna lol

edwinksl

lmao dat troll

Leawo Video Converter comes up a lot in audits

I think this is OT askubuntu.com/review/first-posts/607999

LOA askubuntu.com/review/first-posts/608055

@karthick87 The only other way is selective sed approaches, and that's very painful.

Zanna

5:28 PM

haha I know nothing

@karthick87 Consider that json.dump() only works if you provide a full JSON object. Also consider that when the file is opened in append mode, anything you try and write to the file is added to the end of the file

wat askubuntu.com/questions/815746/…

it won't overwrite or change existing content

karthick87

@ThomasWard yep that makes sense :)

@karthick87 that leads to a broken file, or rather something you aren't expecting when it comes to JSON objects in your approach. So, either two files, one with master content and one with manipulated content, or overwrite the file. I would add try-except statements as well

because there's a large # of potential blowups here

and runtime exception breakages

my two cents :p

karthick87

5:30 PM

@ThomasWard its one the way :)

sigh askubuntu.com/questions/815840/…

karthick87

@ThomasWard or more hint or help if you can.. Any checking is possible is here? like if the same input is already available in the JSON file it should give a message that it is already there and it should not overwrite the file.

@karthick87 I would also make sure that user input is adequately cleaned, esp. for filename path input. Since you're not using hardcoded filepaths or config files for it, you need to make sure the specified paths are valid for the distro or such

@karthick87 'checking' is vague

perhaps we should make a separate channel?

chat room*

NAA askubuntu.com/review/first-posts/607882

wait what

> I have many intrests, hating linux - oh wait i mean Linux, and windows, and nitroshare, and etc.

stackexchange.com/users/8198340/…

edwinksl

@Zacharee1 you on a rampage today eh

5:36 PM

heheheh

@Zacharee1 That's @ƎpᴉʇʎXD. Were you expecting sense?

Q: I have a ms dos laptop and i want to dual boot it with windows 10 and ubuntu.What are the common errors to avoid?

@terdon true

OT askubuntu.com/questions/815881/scala-sbt-hello-world-error

I think

@edwinksl avoiding homework

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Im a newbie to linux(using windows since 5..!) and ive read so many opinions for selectiong uefi or enabling secure boot and about legacy boot that I can't understand for the love of my life what settings to have for problem free dual booting.I would truly be gratefull if someone would simplify a...

boot dual-boot partitioning uefi

dino

@Zacharee1 ah, the one true motivator

/me goes back to his homework.

@ThomasWard Thanks for pointing out that feature freeze has passed (already?!?) - I don't think it's worth an exception for NitroShare since no "major" changes were included. The only really big change was support for TLS being added.

I'll probably wait for 17.04 then.

And hopefully version 0.4 will be ready by then.

@NathanOsman wiki.ubuntu.com/YakketyYak/ReleaseSchedule

when in doubt, check the release sched.

FeatureFreeze was August 18th

5:43 PM

I would have checked had we been in September but I never would have dreamed it was so early.

For some reason I had it in my mind that feature freeze happened like a month in advance of release.

Anyone who wants the latest release is using the PPA anyway.

Hi, I just got an HP Envy x360 but it has an Intel 7265d

And I cannot make it work on Gnome Ubuntu, I was in Fedora and I was not able to make it work :s

I typed dmesg and it says while loading the driver Unsopported splx structure, I have no idea how to proceed, thanks in advance.

This might be of help: wireless.wiki.kernel.org/en/users/drivers/…

Hi, I did try to load them from there, same issue, Splx structure, apparently ubuntu has the right driver, but the wifi doesn't turn on.

Oh, I see. Hmm...

We used to have someone in here who was really good at troubleshooting wireless issues.

@chili555 if you have a minute, @Haguilar91 is in need of assistance with an Intel wifi card.

Thanks for your help Nathan, I have weeks trying to solve it, no luck :s

5:55 PM

I wish I could help but I am not too familiar with Intel cards.

Anwar

I think this question is a duplicate of this one one

@Haguilar91 have you asked a question on the main site? That's the best way to get help

I've seen 3 posts, no answers in any of them.

And I've been looking for a solution for weeks, nothing :( Fedora has the same issue with it, No luck also, Thanks, and since this laptop has no Ethernet is hard for me to use it without wifi.

@Haguilar91 OK. Ask your own. You need to tell us: i) the exact model of your network card (show the output of lspci -nn | grep 0280); ii) the exact symptoms you are experiencing (the card is not seen by the system; the card is seen but you can't see any networks; you can see networks but can't connect etc); iii) the things you've tried and how they failed.

If you can't get it working, there are really cheap USB adapters you can get that have working Linux drivers, if that's an option for you.

6:00 PM

You should also have a look at wireless.wiki.kernel.org fr more information

But please do ask a question on the site in case we can get yours working.

@terdon Already did.

Whoops, so you did.

@NathanOsman We have a final freeze right before release. FeatureFreeze is usually a while before that, so we don't have substantial changes and can gun for Beta / RC testing

some things have exceptions during FeatureFreeze

Right.

bug-fix-only things, not introducing features, etc.

I got in an nginx-config-update during Xenial FeatureFreeze that didn't need an FFe for inclusion

the merges after the fact and new versions after that needed FFe review

but the TB had some influence and background

so the same guy always reviewed

(the config update was for php7.0 path changes)