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Serg

12:00 AM

6 answers on U&L but only one upvote

Rinzwind

@NathanOsman we in europe have a 21% tax on everything but food :P

Serg

at least i wrote a lot of scripts

Rinzwind

you sure did! :)

WinEunuuchs2Unix

@NathanOsman Move to Alberta... only federal 5% GST tax, no 12% Harmonized Sales tax like BC :)

Nathan Osman

We don't have HST.

There are two separate taxes: GST and PST.

WinEunuuchs2Unix

12:03 AM

HST = GST + PST... Alberta is only province without HST or PST.

Zacharee1

@NathanOsman one of those is a timezone

Byte Commander

@Rinzwind "europe"?

In Germany it's 19% IIRC

IanC

@Serg I feel you, was a bit frustrated earlier today with an SO answer.. just upvoted your awk answer!

I really gotta learn it btw

Rinzwind

13.10 askubuntu.com/questions/877376/…

IanC

but I'm not starting the book yet, or it will kill my (already low) productivity

WinEunuuchs2Unix

12:04 AM

I thought Europe was draconian like 23%... Doesn't matter many are calling for collapse of Euro like Trump's economic advisor as well.

Rinzwind

@ByteCommander average ;) we also have countries with 25

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Union_value_added_tax has a list

damn hungary 27% :X

WinEunuuchs2Unix

But they call it a vat (Value Added Tax) so if I give Ubuntu advise which has no value it should be tax free :p

Hungary will be one of the first to leave EU when things head south I think.

Poland will be close behind I think.

Rinzwind

well you are allowed to round down to the nearest cent so you would be safe charging 1ct too

WinEunuuchs2Unix

I'll charge 1 cent 100 million times and be a millionaire tax free!

Rinzwind

now all you need is to find 100m people to do that

WinEunuuchs2Unix

12:08 AM

300 million in the EU, I'll sell them life after death...piece of cake!

Rinzwind

you probably could get money back from the expenses :D

WinEunuuchs2Unix

I'll write off my charities... save the blue turtles from red whales fund!

Zacharee1

exercise is hard....

Nathan Osman

Liquid rescale in progress... on the 29 MP image.

RIP CPU.

Zacharee1

wats that

Nathan Osman

12:09 AM

Liquid rescale?

@GeorgetheDev what is liquid rescale?

Zacharee1

yeh

rip

Nathan Osman

Le sigh...

Zacharee1

Seam carving

Seam carving (or liquid rescaling) is an algorithm for content-aware image resizing, developed by Shai Avidan, of Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories (MERL), and Ariel Shamir, of the Interdisciplinary Center and MERL. It functions by establishing a number of seams (paths of least importance) in an image and automatically removes seams to reduce image size or inserts seams to extend it. Seam carving also allows manually defining areas in which pixels may not be modified, and features the ability to remove whole objects from photographs. The purpose of the algorithm is image retargeting, which...

Nathan Osman

Yeah, basically that.

Zacharee1

hmm

tl;dr?

Nathan Osman

12:10 AM

I want the sky bigger.

?

@NathanOsman wat

Bigger = more larger

^^^ Bye bye flat earth society, hello scrunched earth.

Nathan Osman

Unfortunately, the rescale plugin doesn't take advantage of multiple cores.

WinEunuuchs2Unix

12:13 AM

Not many things use multiple cores... Chrome does by launching multiple chromes.

Nathan Osman

Most video encoders and rendering software can take advantage of multiple CPU cores.

Oh, and of course, compiling software.

WinEunuuchs2Unix

Even gcc could use multiple cores but does it?

Nathan Osman

No, but then make will compile multiple files at once.

WinEunuuchs2Unix

I don't mind... haven't compiled anything in years.

Byte Commander

Ooh, that XKCD above from January 11 (18 days ago) is even mentioned in the Wikipedia article!

WinEunuuchs2Unix

12:16 AM

Wikipedia seems to be fast with updating articles, I wonder how many editors they have at large?

Rinzwind

@Serg start coding! askubuntu.com/questions/877381/…

Serg

@IanC thanks. Ive stepped away from awk quite a lot recently, doing more perl, trying to learn it. Although it pisses me off time to time

Rinzwind

ditch perl! go python :=)

Serg

@Rinzwind duplicate

Nathan Osman

DUDE. It worked.

Rinzwind

12:18 AM

gratz @NathanOsman and who is DUDE?

Zacharee1

@NathanOsman hue

WinEunuuchs2Unix

... and what worked?

Rinzwind

@WinEunuuchs2Unix scroll up :=D

WinEunuuchs2Unix

I did... but I'm too dumb to figure it out :9

Rinzwind

time to try sleeping :P
BB2M

Serg

12:19 AM

@Rinzwind i already do Python. If i learn Perl, that's one more language to add on resume

Nathan Osman

@WinEunuuchs2Unix Wait for it...

Here's the original:

WinEunuuchs2Unix

Happy Rinzy dreams then!

Nathan Osman

And here it is after:

WinEunuuchs2Unix

Well I saw that 29 mb picture already

Nathan Osman

Notice a change?

WinEunuuchs2Unix

12:20 AM

nope... still looks like cowtown or whereever :)

oh wait it's a little taller.

Nathan Osman

Yup.

WinEunuuchs2Unix

great you can make me look taller for my dating profile pic :P

lol...j/k don't believe in internet dating.

Zacharee1

@NathanOsman how does it do

Nathan Osman

How does it do what?

Zacharee1

that

Nathan Osman

12:23 AM

The Wikipedia article from earlier explains it.

Zacharee1

where does it pull that info from

oh

is it just stretched

Nathan Osman

Not quite, but that's mostly what it did in this case.

Byte Commander

@Zacharee1 areas with lower detail (e.g. low contrast between adjacent pixels) are stretched more than detailed areas.

Zacharee1

weird

WinEunuuchs2Unix

@NathanOsman so is the pic Calgary skyline?

Nathan Osman

12:28 AM

Yes.

WinEunuuchs2Unix

Hmm... least I got one answer right in last three days :p

Zacharee1

1:04 AM

woot

three people working on second screen for AOSP

cc.com/video-clips/21z8aq/…

profanity warning but funny

Undo

1:23 AM

I've got an IPv6 issue, if anyone's willing to point me in the right direction it'd be awesome.

Experimenting with IPv6 addressing on EC2. docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonVPC/latest/UserGuide/… works great on a fresh 16.04 Server instance

Do the AWS network stuff, create the file, toggle eth0 down and up, and SSH works over IPv6. Great

WinEunuuchs2Unix

Is there a question here that we can google for you?

Undo

@WinEunuuchs2Unix I hope so.

I'm clueless enough about networking that I don't know the right combination of magic words for Google

Anyway, on a fresh 14.04 Server instance it doesn't work. For one, it looks like 14.04 handles networking differently (or at least config file naming is different)

WinEunuuchs2Unix

Yeah lots of things are different between 14.04 and 16.04, primarily because of systemd.

Undo

/etc/network/interfaces.d/50-cloud-init.cfg doesn't exist; only /etc/network/interfaces.d/eth0.cfg. Which seems fine.

I have a loopback entry by default (on 14.04) in /etc/network/interfaces:

auto lo
iface lo inet loopback

I added their /etc/network/interfaces.d/60-default-with-ipv6.cfg file (just iface eth0 inet6 dhcp).

ifdown followed by ifup froze my SSH connections, which it didn't do on 16.04. Reboot from the console gets me back in over IPv4, and ifconfig does show my correct inet6 address.

But trying to ssh to it just times out

Thomas Ward

sup @Undo?

WinEunuuchs2Unix

1:31 AM

I'm not up on network topology stuff, but hopefully someone knows it around here.

Zacharee1

wat

Thomas Ward

@WinEunuuchs2Unix Like me lol?

Undo

@ThomasWard ipv6 fun!

Byte Commander

VTC no-repro please askubuntu.com/q/877285/367990

Thomas Ward

oh yay let me switch to my laptop lol

Zacharee1

1:32 AM

hue

Thomas Ward

let me also make a very alcoholic dr. pepper first too

'cause I need the evil

WinEunuuchs2Unix

vodka and dr. pepper?

Zacharee1

wai

Undo

Sounds like a reasonable prereq for anything involving networking

Zacharee1

@Undo besides LAN cables

Thomas Ward

1:37 AM

@WinEunuuchs2Unix You have a lot to learn about booze lol. Vodka goes well with anything.

Except prune juice

Zacharee1

mmm

Thomas Ward

dont ask how I know this accept it as a fact

WinEunuuchs2Unix

in the old folks home vodka and prune juice is best seller.

Zacharee1

@ThomasWard Trump?

Thomas Ward

not in my home. vanilla absolut + any sugary soft drink = Give MORE

@Zacharee1 silence mortal

Zacharee1

1:38 AM

hui

Byte Commander

Currently the count of my LQ reviews equals my Ubuntu release version I'm running... 1604

Zacharee1

moar

Thomas Ward

@Undo so, IPv6, what's up with v6? :)

Zacharee1

it's not v4

Undo

@ThomasWard Trying to play with it on EC2. Start at chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/35072668#35072668.

Thomas Ward

1:41 AM

@Undo 14.04 and 16.04 static addressing via /etc/network/interfaces remains the same

the difference with 16.04 is it includes confs under interfaces.d

so you just have to do the config in /etc/network/interfaces directly

otherwise the v6 config should be the same

Undo

I have a fresh 14.04.5 Server open right now, /etc/network/interfaces has this line:

source /etc/network/interfaces.d/*.cfg

(above that is loopback config and nothing else)

Thomas Ward

you have two choices, add a .cfg into the interfaces.d or add one to the /etc/network/interfaces directly, though my guess is there's a config somewhere for eth0 already in that subdirectory

Undo

There is, eth0.cfg

Zacharee1

unubtu iz ipv6 scrub

Undo

# The primary network interface
auto eth0
iface eth0 inet dhcp

Thomas Ward

1:44 AM

@Undo you can add it to that underneath it, or add a new one. Here's what I'd do in eth0.cfg:

# The primary network interface
auto eth0
iface eth0 inet dhcp
iface eth0 inet6 dhcp

then reboot

because 14.04 is not kind with random network reconfigures during boot

from my experience

god this is tasty... adds more vodka to his Dr. Pepper

Zacharee1

you're weird

Undo

We'll try that

not the vodka thing. the inet6 thing.

Thomas Ward

@Zacharee1 lies. I just know by booze. Now stop telling me how to drink.

Zacharee1

ha

Thomas Ward

you have to blame the Russians I have hung out with - they have these drinks and introduced me.

That said, I found a hotel with a bar in it around her

said bar is well acquainted with vodka+cola

Dr. Pepper is uncommon but it's all I got on hand at my apartment this evening

other than the vodka

Undo

1:48 AM

@ThomasWard Looks identical now, rebooted and ssh still times out

Thomas Ward

@Undo over v6, or totally?

Undo

v6 only, v4 works fine

Thomas Ward

ip -6 route list

hate to ask about the route, but my guess is something is nasty/evil

Undo

$ ip -6 route list
2600:1f18:444f:1f01:9523:b874:32a1:f6fd dev eth0  proto kernel  metric 256
fe80::/64 dev eth0  proto kernel  metric 256  mtu 9001

Thomas Ward

OH

wait

@Undo firewall?

is the firewall open for port 22 on v4 and v6 in the ec2 control panel>

Undo

1:49 AM

@ThomasWard Shouldn't be, I can pull up a 16.04 server and be running just fine

but yeah, 22 is open to 0.0.0.0/0, ::/0

(yeah yeah I know, but it's not prod so it's fine)

Thomas Ward

that seems odd, then, because that should work, though I don't see a v6 route there

just the 'standard' network, not the gateway

what do you see on 16.04, with ip -6 route list?

Undo

Don't have one running, but I can get one. Give me a minute.

Thomas Ward

@Undo either it's the route or something else, ping6 ipv6.google.com from the 14.04 box what do you see?

mmm, booze and spicy snacks

Undo

$ ping6 ipv6.google.com
connect: Network is unreachable

Thomas Ward

yeah you need the v6 route

Undo

1:53 AM

@ThomasWard For this:

$ ip -6 route list
2600:1f18:444f:1f00:56a1:5678:185b:e534 dev eth0  proto kernel  metric 256  pref medium
fe80::/64 dev eth0  proto kernel  metric 256  mtu 9001 pref medium
default via fe80::c5e:4cff:fe6c:328d dev eth0  proto ra  metric 1024  expires 1791sec hoplimit 64 pref medium

Thomas Ward

well that's an odd route

@Undo dhclient -v -6 as sudo or root on the 14.04 please

Undo

$ sudo dhclient -v -6
sudo: unable to resolve host ip-172-30-0-143
Internet Systems Consortium DHCP Client 4.2.4
Copyright 2004-2012 Internet Systems Consortium.
All rights reserved.
For info, please visit isc.org/software/dhcp

Bound to *:546
Listening on Socket/eth0
Sending on   Socket/eth0
PRC: Soliciting for leases (INIT).
XMT: Forming Solicit, 0 ms elapsed.
XMT:  X-- IA_NA 7a:c6:1d:24
XMT:  | X-- Request renew in  +3600
XMT:  | X-- Request rebind in +5400
XMT: Solicit on eth0, interval 1060ms.

Thomas Ward

if it doesn't set the route then Amazon needs to give the gateway to route through

Undo

On 16.04:

$ sudo dhclient -v -6
ng best lease.
PRC:  X-- Initial candidate 00:03:00:01:0a:8c:18:55:69:af (s: 153, p: 255).
XMT: Forming Request, 0 ms elapsed.
XMT:  X-- IA_NA 7a:c6:1d:24
XMT:  | X-- Requested renew  +3600
XMT:  | X-- Requested rebind +5400
XMT:  | | X-- IAADDR 2600:1f18:444f:1f01:9523:b874:32a1:f6fd
XMT:  | | | X-- Preferred lifetime +7200
XMT:  | | | X-- Max lifetime +7500
XMT:  V IA_NA appended.
XMT: Request on eth0, interval 910ms.
RCV: Reply message on eth0 from fe80::88c:18ff:fe55:69af.

Thomas Ward

it looks like 14.04 doesn't interpret the gateway part it's supposed to set shrugs

14.04 has no actual Internet usable route

so that's something I'd tell Amazon about

or ask them for the gateway to use and set it in the network config

Undo

1:56 AM

@ThomasWard I control the VPC, this is the route table

igw-* is the 'internet gateway'.

Thomas Ward

then I'd say it's a 14.04 evil. And just use v4 on 14.04. I have 14.04 servers that hate IPv6 even on my local networks

Undo

well that's kinda sad :(

But thanks anyway ;)

Thomas Ward

yep.

I don't like IPv6 for its evils

routing, etc. all blows up

@Undo the only other thing I can think of is static routing, but ::/0 isn't a 'gateway' and you have no default v6 route on your 14.04 machine

you can try setting the default route but I'm not sure what you'd set it to - that'd be set by DHCP6

Undo

Wonder if it'd be worth raising inside the Ubuntu community?

Pretty sure they have a part in maintaining those snapshots.

Thomas Ward

possibly, but we don't maintain teh v6 DHCP part

that would be a part of Amazon properly advertising one

Undo

2:01 AM

gotcha

Thomas Ward

which it seems to do with 16.04, but not 14.04

hence why I usually static my v6 stuff, not DHCP6 it

back in a few

Zacharee1

2:39 AM

is it weird that we're using our Unifi WAP as a nightlight for the hall?

Thomas Ward

@Zacharee1 yes

lol

Zacharee1

the blue ring is just so bright

Serg

2:58 AM

Maybe I should start spending less time on U&L and AU ._.

Thomas Ward

heh

@Serg maybe you should, but we won't stop you

@Zacharee1 True statement, but i use it as a night light only in my server room :P

Serg

@ThomasWard Not asking to stop :) Just thinking out loud

Thomas Ward

:P

Zacharee1

well the WAP needs to go through a stone wall, so it needs to be kind of central

Thomas Ward

heh

i don't have to worry about stone walls in my case

just drywall

chaskes

3:04 AM

@serg I totally forgot about HUD, but it works well now.

Nathan Osman

Dovecot isn't using the SSL certificate I told it to use.

ssl = required
ssl_cert = </root/ssl/server.crt
ssl_key = </root/ssl/server.key

And yet, it's using a self-signed certificate.

Gah!

99-mail-stack-delivery.conf

It's overriding everything.

Serg

@chaskes Lol, I know some people use it a lot for libre office and such. I personally don't use it that much.

But I guess it works in this specific case

chaskes

I plan to start :) I'm always forgetting where things are, especially in libreoffice

Serg

For now, not forever. 'apt' is the future. — user535733 2 mins ago

Well . . ugh . . .apt and apt-get are pretty much same , apt-get being a sort of back-end

chaskes

3:24 AM

@Serg plus, can't you install any version of Python3 that you want?

Serg

@chaskes Well , you can install with apt-get only what is available in repositories. But if you build from source - sure , you can install any version of python 3

chaskes

Right, I just meant monkeying with 3 is not dangerous like with 2.7, unlike what the answer said @serg

Serg

Well, I personally don't know, because I don't monkey-around with that :) If anything, I've learned this: "If it ain't broke, don't fix it"

chaskes

;)

TheXed

3:38 AM

Woot just beat Crysis

Serg

wut ?

Nathan Osman

@TheXed The whole game?

Wat.

TheXed

@NathanOsman yeah the whole game...

Nathan Osman

3:53 AM

Dude.

That's a short game.

TheXed

According to steam it took 14 hours...

Nathan Osman

You only bought it what... Tuesday?

Seth

4:56 AM

bash.org/?258908

Nathan Osman

5:06 AM

@Seth Lol.

I wish there were a fast way to quickly transfer data from one PostgreSQL database to another.

I'm moving my email server to another host and this is proving slightly more tedious than I had hoped.

Seth

ugh. flu+hypoglycemia is the worst combination.

Chan-Ho Suh

you sick, @Seth?

Seth

@Chan-HoSuh unfortunately, yes.

Serg

Me too

Chan-Ho Suh

sorry to hear that... hopefully not too sick to not enjoy the Internet, though :)

(comment to both of you)

huh, which of you made the other sick? ;)

Serg

5:19 AM

I'd guess I'm to blame . . .

Because I got sick , then saw Seth post in chat he's sick

Frankly, I was so pissed because I had to skip work and school for two days. Lost whole day of work.

Chan-Ho Suh

5:31 AM

yeah that sucks... I got sick right before the recent three day weekend... I guess that's less sucky in a way, but still very annoying

heemayl

5:42 AM

@Fabby Hey

Serg

O hey, heemayl !

Rare occasion that you're in chat

heemayl

@Serg Hehe..just dropping by :)

Serg

Well, nice seeing you here. What's new ?

heemayl

Nothing special..thought about saying Hi :)

Chan-Ho Suh

well, @Serg, I think you'll be happy to hear I finally booted into Ubuntu, rather than Arch or Windows

all this purple and orange... man, it's making me nostalgic

Serg

5:55 AM

Yaaaaay, welcome back to the world of Unity, Launchers, and AppIndicators !

Chan-Ho Suh

thank you thank you... :/

well, looks like I'm on 13.10 though

Serg

I started with 13.10. It was my original distro

Chan-Ho Suh

oh man

I think 12.04 was mine

or maybe 11.10

hmm how exciting, it might be the case that AMD Catalyst support for my graphics might be available now

Seth

11.10 is where most of my nosalgia is at, although I started with Ubuntu with 11.04.

Serg

Oh, and FYI , feel free to request app indicators if you ever need one ;)

Seth

6:11 AM

One thing's for sure @Serg, all your indicators will certainly look good on your portfolio :D

Nathan Osman

So here's systemd in a nutshell:

$ systemctl enable spamassassin
Synchronizing state of spamassassin.service with SysV init with /lib/systemd/systemd-sysv-install...
Executing /lib/systemd/systemd-sysv-install enable spamassassin
insserv: fopen(.depend.stop): Permission denied
==== AUTHENTICATING FOR org.freedesktop.systemd1.reload-daemon ===
Authentication is required to reload the systemd state.
Authenticating as: nathan
Password:
==== AUTHENTICATION COMPLETE ===
insserv: fopen(.depend.stop): Permission denied
==== AUTHENTICATING FOR org.freedesktop.systemd1.reload-daemon ===

I forgot sudo when enabling a service.

And systemd asks me for my password four times.

Serg

@Seth I hope so. I just hope they can give me a bit of a chance to get a job somewhere

Seth

6:33 AM

@NathanOsman gotta love systemd. /s

Chan-Ho Suh

hmm, Serg, don't tell me you think your chances are that low

Seth

@NathanOsman I wonder if they're using pkexec.. by default it prompts you for every action taken.

Nathan Osman

Good question.

Rinzwind

Nathan: I prefer 4 times over 0 times but that is insane :D

File a bug report :DDDDD

Seth

@EliahKagan why did you vote to close this as a duplicate of that question? One is a generic "what is the safest way to restart when I get an occasional crash" and one is about diagnosing a specific crashing case with details.

@Rinzwind that's a joke, right? The systemd devs are jerks.

Rinzwind

6:38 AM

@Seth does not mean we can't keep them busy :-)

Seth

@Rinzwind busy closing bugs they don't like as "NOTABUG"?

I guess..

Rinzwind

:(

Oh, Ann Donelly is my new favorite American :D

Serg

It's so nice to occasionally find a stream community where most folks are pretty chill , and not too big , and can somewhat interact with the streamer

Nathan Osman

Reinstalling my email server reminds me why most people don't do it.

Zanna

haha what happens?

Nathan Osman

6:49 AM

Even a simple setup with SMTP, IMAP, and spam filtering with TLS takes hours to properly set up.

I've been at this since late afternoon.

Zanna

ugh

Nathan Osman

I think I finally got it working the way I want.

I really need to write a script for this...

Eliah Kagan

@Seth Thanks! I believe you are right. The general freeze question has more info, including some troubleshooting steps, but doesn't give the specificity that the new OP is looking for, except for problems that are not likely to be related to the new OP's. So it was a mistake for me to start the process that closed that question--sorry!--and I'm glad it has been reversed.

Nathan Osman

7:49 AM

This question has a rather interesting title:

242

Q: Can I talk to my rubber duck at work?

I have noticed I have had great success using another co-worker as a metaphorical rubber duck (sometimes intentionally, sometimes unintentionally). It improves my productivity vastly. However, I know that it probably distracts others when I am using them in that way. That's why I want to buy a l...

Chan-Ho Suh

yeah I saw that one

some of the answers are kinda strange too

I think a couple people said something like, oh we already do that at work

a guy that sat by me at my last job would have these highly involved technical discussions with himself... I kinda miss him ;)

Jacob Vlijm

@Rinzwind t.t.t. os.system... On a Sunday, shame on you!!

Nathan Osman

9:13 AM

More adventures in replying to spam | James Veitch

►

That is very well done.

Rinzwind

9:54 AM

another gem from him:

The agony of trying to unsubscribe | James Veitch

►

Eliah Kagan

Should Copy and paste clipboard history selectively and Clipboard Managers: How to assign keyboard shortcuts for pasting the 2nd or 3rd previously copied clipboard entries? be made duplicates of Clipboard manager with “history paste” support?

Zanna

10:13 AM

yes!

but it's a shame there aren't better answers

WinEunuuchs2Unix

10:33 AM

@EliahKagan All of them are duplicates of: askubuntu.com/questions/584034/ubuntu-14-04-clipboard-manager which has many answers with many upvotes.

WinEunuuchs2Unix

10:47 AM

@EliahKagan Here is another clipboard manager duplicate that could be closed: askubuntu.com/questions/850209/…

Eliah Kagan

11:07 AM

@WinEunuuchs2Unix I don't think those three questions are dupes of those two at all. The three questions I'm asking about are specifically asking for how to set up individual, distinct keyboard shortcuts for pasting text that has been copied to different clipboard buffers, not just what clipboard managers exist.

Fabby

@Rinzwind awarded!

@heemayl yeah??? :D

cl-netbox

11:54 AM

Hi everybody ! :)

Rinzwind

12:17 PM

cool @Fabby

0

Q: Can not start postgresql due to perl error

I have installed postgres on my ubuntu, when I try to run the psql command I am getting following error: $ psql Can't locate POSIX.pm: /usr/local/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/perl/5.22.1/POSIX.pm: Permission denied at /usr/bin/psql line 20. BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/bin/psql line 20. ...

postgresql perl

sentence in the middle makes me :(

Fabby

12:39 PM

Hi alone! :D

@Rinzwind 777 makes you cry??? But it's a lucky number! :D :D :D

cl-netbox

1:00 PM

@Fabby :D :D :D

Byte Commander

It is external to AskUbuntu.com and we generally do not want link-only answers that become pretty useless if you strip the link away. Links should always be an additional source for more information or a reference to where you got your information from, not the only information. It does not really matter for this whether the link points to official documentation or not (although official docs are of course better than random blogs or articles). — Byte Commander 9 secs ago

Justified, or am I missing something about what we consider to be link-only answers?

cl-netbox

@ByteCommander Looks good ... I would remove this part : (although official docs are of course better than random blogs or articles) ... Good afternoon ! :)

Byte Commander

Hi

luchonacho

@JacobVlijm it's a farewell tour. Sadly, AU has become an unproductive addiction, and I am closing my account, but making something useful with my rep.

cl-netbox

@luchonacho What do you mean with unproductive addiction ? Maybe I can convince you to stay ? :)

Zacharee1

1:18 PM

@ByteCommander a 9k user with an LOA?

luchonacho

@cl-netbox I mean I am in AU instead of working. It's a matter of lack of self-control. Also, clearly this is not my comparative advantage, as I know little of linux in general, and I am not going to learn much either. I see the perfect AU contributor as someone which works with Linux, programmers, etc. I'm an anti imperialist ergo open-source supporter, but not the above.

Zacharee1

@luchonacho I have 12k and haven't used Ubuntu in a few months

and even then it was just to play MC

cl-netbox

1:42 PM

@luchonacho hmmm ... then why not leave your account active ? ... you might use linux systems more one day and so automatically learn additional stuff ... things are changing fast (sometimes) ! :)

cl-netbox

1:54 PM

@luchonacho By the way, when you close your account, it means that the user (you) gets removed and all your (up and down) votes and all bounties you awarded are getting revoked for every one of those affected users ... :)

@luchonacho And this would be the opposite of what you want to achieve - right ? :)

luchonacho

@cl-netbox 0:

cl-netbox

@luchonacho ??? what means 0: ? :)

luchonacho

@cl-netbox absolutely (I see you dont want to lose the 500 you got the other day ;)

cl-netbox

@luchonacho that's not why I informed you about the consequences in the first line ... I meant it more generally ... because you said : ... making something useful with my rep ! :)

luchonacho

@cl-netbox Yes, just joking. I didn't know that. Thanks for telling me. mmm will think about it. Maybe I can "forget" my password.

@cl-netbox indeed

cl-netbox

2:02 PM

@luchonacho hahaha ... that would be an alternative indeed ... and once you overthink your decision, it will be easy for you to re-remember the password ... :D

Going for having a walk outside now ... weather is a bit better today, so taking the chance ... see you later guys ! :)

luchonacho

@cl-netbox Oh...its almost like a curse... well, will try to control my addiction. I even check AU before the newspaper. Sad

bye

cl-netbox

@luchonacho That's a good idea (controlling the addiction) ... gives you the option to participate whenever you like ! :)

@luchonacho see you ! :)

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