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TheWanderer

12:07 AM

Terminal: `Do you want to continue? [Y/n]`
Me: `5`

Videonauth

12:18 AM

using Wayland and suddently you are in the 'taking functions away land' ... !

Videonauth

12:34 AM

officially now in the top 100 :D

Thomas Ward

1:03 AM

accidentally prunes a couple thousand rep from @Videonauth oopsies

Videonauth

casts @ThomasWard into /dev/null

Thomas Ward

i'm already there

where do you think your rep ended up :P

Videonauth

hehehe

Ubuntu Questions on U&L

1:21 AM

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Q: Ubuntu server on macbook: how to configure sleep conditions?

I have an old MacBook which I set up running ubuntu server for a fun project. Unfortunately, whenever I close the lid or leave it without wiggling the mouse for too long, it goes to sleep! I really just want this thing as a server, so this is not ideal behavior. Any ideas on how I can configure i...

TheWanderer

Is it bad I know the TMO CS process by heart?

Videonauth

Whatever that is, but knowledge is never bad :)

TheWanderer

T-Mobile's customer service

Videonauth

then it might be bad :P

TheWanderer

you know how call centers have the automated process before you get to a live rep?

I know my way through it

Videonauth

1:25 AM

yeah i hate that shit, especially when they make you talk to some machine instead of letting you type numbers

TheWanderer

Jesus this rep has no idea what she's talking about

Videonauth

the most in those callcenters have no effin clue what they talk about, thats normal

they just read answers from textbooks

TheWanderer

To Tech Support!

alrighty then

disconnected

Thomas Ward

"Hi, you have reached Technical Support, how may I assist you this evening"

:P

Videonauth

"This beep beep beep beep beep*beep* no work!"

god i could not think of a worse job as working in a call center

Thomas Ward

1:32 AM

I could think of a worse job

working in the sanitation departments

Videonauth

nope, even that job is easier and ok against that

TheWanderer

@ThomasWard yes, hi, your engineers said that the tower in my area was being worked on to add LTE, but we talked to the owner of the tower and he told us you hadn't even gone out there

can you explain that?

Thomas Ward

@TheWanderer "I'm sorry but I will have to escalate this up to the next tier of support, please wait a moment."

TheWanderer

ahh, yes, soft Spanish guitar jazz

Thomas Ward

elevator music plays while you're on hold

TheWanderer

1:34 AM

no it's soft Spanish jazz guitar

wait

now it's elevator music

Thomas Ward

two hours later "Thank you for calling Technical Support, my name is Bob, how may I help you?"

TheWanderer

BWAAAAA BWA BWA BWA BWAAA

BWAAA BWA BWA BWA BWAAA

the music keeps cutting out

I'm just waiting for the Windows 98 error beep that always happens

Ubuntu Questions on U&L

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Q: How do I install mingw-std-threads on Ubuntu?

I am downloading the Bitcoin source code for Windows, and trying to compile it using these steps. I am receiving these errors when I make my Bitcoin source code on Windows Subsystem for Linux error: ‘mutex’ in namespace ‘std’ does not name a type mutable std::mutex mutex; It would appear that ...

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Thomas Ward

@TheWanderer Relevant

TheWanderer

that. is. AMAZING

Thomas Ward

1:39 AM

had a feeling you would appreciate it after your comment about the Win98 error beep

TheWanderer

lol the rep is speechless xD

I told him that we talked to the owner and he doesn't know what to do

Thomas Ward

you have to reach out to more than tech support you know

TheWanderer

it might be time for another BBB complaint

Thomas Ward

mind if I ask what country this is in?

TheWanderer

US of A

TMO

Thomas Ward

1:43 AM

FCC regulations.

TheWanderer

?

Thomas Ward

FCC has to approve new signal transmissions from carriers on towers.

even if one owns the tower

FCC has to approve the buildout

TheWanderer

it's been almost 2 years

since modernization started

Thomas Ward

and the FCC moves at snail's pace.

same with all cell providers

LTE is also not "easy" either

Seth

@ThomasWard except when they're paid $$$ to remove regs

Thomas Ward

1:44 AM

it requires a lot of infra to work proper

TheWanderer

also, there are plenty of other towers in the area that have LTE already

Thomas Ward

@Seth :P

TheWanderer

it's just this one that they seemingly refuse to upgrade

Thomas Ward

@Seth if you refer to net neutrality I sat down with the senators of my state already and had a face-to-face meeting. My dad's name helps me get into the door pretty easily as he's got a good repertoire with the two of em.

Seth

@ThomasWard ooh nice

TheWanderer

1:46 AM

Ward?

Thomas Ward

@TheWanderer nah it's a common enough name. My dad having a good repertoire with the two senators helped me, special case heh

hmm, i'm thirsty... apparently all this chinese food makes one thirsty...

TheWanderer

where are you

Thomas Ward

pa

TheWanderer

damn this is NJ

although the owner of that tower is going to be a senator starting 2018

Ubuntu Questions on U&L

7:06 AM

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Q: Running the time command produces completely different output when run with nice

On my heavily loaded Ubuntu box, I ran nice -n 19 time echo and got the following output: 0.00user 0.00system 0:02.80elapsed 0%CPU (0avgtext+0avgdata 1732maxresident)k 312inputs+0outputs (1major+74minor)pagefaults 0swaps However, when I run time echo I get the following output instead: real ...

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Videonauth

7:46 AM

good morning

cl-netbox

1:15 PM

Hello :)

@Videonauth Good afternoon :)

Videonauth

to you too

cl-netbox

@Videonauth Thank you :)

Videonauth

weird weather here, do you have snow too?

cl-netbox

@Videonauth weird indeed ... earlier this morning it was quite warm, then a storm came and brought along freezing temperature and it began to snow extremely ... now the temperature rises again and the snow is melting. :)

Videonauth

here it is snowing since around midnight and it still hasnt stopped

cl-netbox

1:21 PM

@Videonauth I saw it in the news on TV yesterday ... extreme weather and many accidents in NRW ... hope it normalizes soon. :)

Videonauth

to be honest i like the snow, if its after me it can snow on :)

would at least freeze the ground properly so we have no insect pest next year

cl-netbox

@Videonauth Yeah, it looks nice (from the inside of a warm flat or house) ... but me, I prefer summer with a lot of sun shining and warm temperature. :)

Videonauth

:)

cl-netbox

:D

Ubuntu Questions on U&L

2:49 PM

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Q: Corruption problems if I stop imagemagick convert

I want to resize a bunch of images (around 1 million) using imageMagick convert function. I am using Ubuntu 16.04 This is taking longer than I thought it would (been running about 5 hours - I can give it another 5, but then I want to stop it) My question is: If I stop the program, will I have t...

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TheWanderer

4:30 PM

> “My name is Barry Allen, and I am the FASTEST man alive, except for Reverse Flash, Zoom, Jay Garrick, The Rival, Savitar, Jesse Quick, Wally West(“Kid Flash”), and a guy named Turtle. D’OH!"

kek

Byte Commander

Titled "Here we see the rare Canadian Tumbleweed in its natural habitat."

Videonauth

wait? is that driven forward by wind?

Byte Commander

5:05 PM

seems like it

found here imgur.com/gallery/q9zgiDX

Videonauth

well here it has snowed the whole day but as soon it stopped the snow was directly melting away

sadly

Byte Commander

I know

11°C tomorrow, they said

Videonauth

thats simply crazy

normally we should have zero temperatures at this time of the year

Ubuntu Questions on U&L

7:01 PM

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Q: Need help accessing USB

Have ~300Gig of data on a usb . All data came from OSX and trying to move them onto a windows machine. I was able to see the files on my linux (ubuntu 16.04) machine , but after sticking the usb into a windows machine i can no longer even see the files on my linux machine (rather worried it may...

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Ubuntu Questions on U&L

7:47 PM

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Q: Local, time stamped logging of commands from nested, loopy ssh connections

My question is similar to 139874 but with some extra requirements. Let's say I have logged into some remote server using nested ssh connections, for eg. from local to remote1 from remote1 to remote2 from remote2 to remote1 from remote1 to remote3 and so on using nested loopy ssh connection...

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TheWanderer

9:16 PM

my cat somehow managed to hit F6 and then stand on my 5 key while I was gone

my address bar was just 55555555555555555555555555555555555555555555555555555555555555555555555555555555‌55555555555555

Byte Commander

At leasts it didn't sit on the 6 key. That would have been a worse omen.

Ask Ubuntu Meta

9:48 PM

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Q: Suggestion: Change the canonical question for “How to enter special characters in the terminal?”

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