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Android Dev

00:23

Canny edge detection :D

Corgs

00:41

What are the diffrences between amdgpu and radeon drivers?

Seth

01:04

amdgpu are newer

TheWanderer

@Corgs life and death

Rinzwind

02:46

\o

Seth

\o

Ubuntu Questions on U&L

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Q: Repair windows boot after installing ubuntu - dual boot

I have an old notebook that had Windows Vista running, and decided to install Ubuntu 16.04 on it, with dual boot. I resized vista partition and installed Ubuntu. After installing Ubuntu, I realized I couldn't access windows files, because it was hibernated. So, I booted up and deactivated hibern...

Seth

> I hate ubuntu why don't they just get there butt up and actually add itunes to the Ubuntu software?/

Rinzwind

09:26

@Seth lol

TheWanderer

09:51

@Seth link?

Ubuntu Questions on U&L

12:57

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Q: Open a port on a google cloud instance without ssh access

After enabling ufw on my google cloud instance running ubuntu, I can't ssh into the instance anymore. I didn't open nor close any port, I only ran: ufw enable and restarted the machine (ufw requires restart when enabled). I have verified that the instance is running by pinging it. Is there a wa...

ubuntu ssh ufw google-cloud

Benny

13:09

I just told him about the Question above to do `sudo ufw allow ssh`
Is this right?

Thanks!

TheWanderer

@Benny they can't access the machine

Benny

ok thanks, I removed my suggestion, the question was unclear to me

Ubuntu Questions on U&L

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Q: How do I run my shell script from anywhere

I have an Ubuntu Studio 16.10 64 bit. I created a shell script xyz.sh the path to the file is home/somefolder/test/xyz.sh I have already added `chmod u+x xyz.sh` and I ran the script ./xyz.sh It was successfull. However, when I did a cd to go to my home directory and executed xyz.sh...

linux bash shell-script ubuntu

Ubuntu Questions on U&L

13:45

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Q: How to disable Gnome ctrl+alt+down and ctrl+alt+up shortcut?

There's a shortcut on Discord that enables you to switch between servers easily. It's ctrl+alt+up and ctrl+alt+down. The problem is that Gnome uses this shortcut for changing workspaces. Now, I have two monitors so I don't use additional workspaces very often so I opened settings and looked for t...

ubuntu gnome

Byte Commander

I have just been reviewing suggested edits and rejected a batch of around 10 suggestions by these two users here F.meh (rejected most but improved one of his edits) and Sina (rejected all). Reason is always "no improvement" because the edit only consisted of formatting some more or less random words bold or inline-code.

Maybe a mod could message and educate them?

In case of F.meh I couldn't even comment below any of their posts to initiate contact because that guy doesn't have any.

Ubuntu Questions on U&L

14:02

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Q: How do I execute without a sudo?

I have an Ubuntu Studio 16.10 64 bit. I created a shell script xyz.sh the path to the file is home/somefolder/test/xyz.sh I have already added chmod u+x xyz.sh and I ran the script ./xyz.sh It was successful. I added my shell script PATH=$PATH:/home/somefolder/test/ I renamed the xyz.sh...

linux shell-script ubuntu command

Byte Commander

14:32

@terdon May I bug you to quickly check the mod flag queue? I flagged a comment containing server credentials that needs a quick nuke before somebody uses them.

Don't want to link it here for obvious reasons.

Oh damn... it's already indexed by google/duckduckgo

TheWanderer

@ByteCommander I'm pretty sure most of the mods support even small edits like that

they just suggest you improve them

unless the formatting makes no sense

Byte Commander

they were useless. Did you see them?

Eliah Kagan

@TheWanderer Random application of bold and code formatting where it makes no sense? That is not considered correct and should always be rejected unless it's a tiny part of an otherwise good edit (then it can be improved out of the post).

TheWanderer

I haven't reviewed in forever lol

Byte Commander

shame on you

TheWanderer

14:41

I'm such a hypocrite :D

Byte Commander

You don't deserve to be in these holy halls. Get out.

Eliah Kagan

@ByteCommander I've reviewed and rejected a number of these as well. If enough are rejected it should fix the problem--either they'll realize random bold and code formatting is not considered helpful, or they'll be automatically banned from editing for a short time. The real problem is that some of these are getting multiple accept reviews. It's the reviewers who may benefit from advice from mods, I think, more than the editors themselves.

TheWanderer

@ByteCommander pls

q_q

Eliah Kagan

In all seriousness though, the right to choose not to review is actually the cornerstone of all good reviewing -- the Skip button, after all, is a great light to us all. Compared to reviewing badly, it is far preferable not to review. But yes I would encourage you to review, if you're willing to do so. :)

terdon

15:40

@ByteCommander No pending flags. I guess someone already dealt with it

Byte Commander

@terdon Yes, it got removed by now.

It is still indexed by search engines and can be found easily by entering the server's domain though.

But hey, we can't fix the whole internet, not even with diamonds.

Seth

15:58

well you could sell the diamonds and invest in infrastructure..

or bribe people.

Byte Commander

Hmm... I wonder how much a blue SE diamond is worth on the black market... :thinking-emoji:

jrg

I've tried

they're pretty worthless

nobody wants to be targetted by the angry user that got suspended for being rude

Journeyman Geek

hah. Just suspend them again

off a building.

Above bubbling lava

jrg

I don't have any bubbling lava nearby

closest thing i have is a lake

Seth

I mean, lake Erie in the winter is almost as effective. You just have to hold 'em down a little longer.

Jasper

16:06

Lake Eerie is the name of a horror movie I watched lol.

jrg

hmm

hadn't thought of that

Seth

@Jasper Eerie or Erie? Two different things :P

Jasper

@Seth Oh, really? I think the movie is Eerie lol.

Seth

@Jasper hehe. Yeah, lake Erie is a lake in the US

(and maybe Canada? Can't remember if that one touches Canada or not)

jrg

yeah

It's the southern shore of canada and the northern shore of the US

Seth

16:08

aha, right.

jrg

OOOOH. PERFECT BLOG NAME: north shore nomad

Seth

oooh, noice.

Jasper

I currently use Ubuntu MATE on my old computers.

jrg

it's available. really tempting.

Seth

except you're on the south shore..

jrg

16:09

nope

i'm in the US

so the north shore of the US

Jasper

It seems that Unity is available in Ubuntu MATE as one of the panel options!

Seth

@jrg I mean, I guess you could look at it that way

Jasper

I think Ubuntu MATE will rise in popularity soon...

Seth

@Jasper don't they call that Mutiny?

Jasper

@Seth Yes, that's what I was referring to.

I can imagine a whole bunch of Unity users flocking to Ubuntu MATE...

Seth

16:11

@Jasper What many people don't seem to realize is that Unity is more than just a panel configuration..

jrg

@Seth in the time honored tradition I started 2 weeks ago, I have put it to the twitterverse.

Seth

The only environment I've seen come close is, ironically, GNOME. With a ridiculous amount of extensions mind you.

@jrg Hah! Awesome xD

Jasper

I miss the days of GNOME 2.

Maybe GNOME 4 will be like GNOME 2...

Seth

I'm still trying to find the right twitter filter combination to drown out most of the politics so I can use twitter in peace.

Jasper

I never had twitter or facebook, lol.

So @Seth I started taking meds again.

Seth

16:14

wait. you are Jasper Loy?

Jasper

Yes. Hi @seth lol.

Seth

lol

Jasper

There are some imposters, but I am the real one now.

Seth

I thought was a different Jasper lol. No solid color, no Loy. Had me confused for a couple minutes there :P

@Jasper xD

jrg

@Seth i was corrected

Jasper

16:16

Yeah, the only way to tell an imposter from the real one is to know some things and test him on that.

Seth

Well I hope the meds help you at least.

jrg

it's north coast, south shore

Seth

wat

@Jasper true enough!

Jasper

I remember the old pictures of both @Seth and @jrg, lol.

Seth

That was a long time ago..

Jasper

16:18

Yeah, I deleted only one Ubuntu account. But I deleted more of others.

jrg

indeed it was

Jasper

I mean SE accounts.

Right now, I only have ELL account.

What nice movies are there to watch recently?

jrg

Wonder Woman was pretty good.

Jasper

I totally hate superhero movies lol.

jrg

ah ok then hate away

that's about all i've watched recently

Jasper

16:25

Maybe because I am in a bad mood, so every movie seems bad to me.

jrg

as far as TV goes, if you're into scifi and comedy The Orville is pretty good so far

Jasper

I did finish watching 10 episodes of Hindsight (2015), lol.

Too bad Season 2 was cancelled.

And I also watched all 24 Eon Productions James Bond movies.

I did all that this year, lol.

Rinzwind

@Jasper The dark tower

Seth

16:41

@jrg I should watch the pilot to that.

@Jasper The new star trek airs today.

It's sad when a comedy like The Orville looks better than a new Star Trek show..

Journeyman Geek

lol

duuuuude

Rinzwind

@Seth yes and it looks VERY good

Journeyman Geek

THe Orville is pretty good when it stops trying to be funny

Ask Ubuntu Meta

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Q: I know "This suggested edit to your post has already been handled" -- I handled it!

I rejected this edit suggestion on one of my own posts. But when I view it, it tells me: This suggested edit to your post has already been handled and your action is no longer required. Although that's true--it was handled (by me) and my action is no longer required (because I already took ...

bug review suggested-edits

jrg

@Seth It's... weird.

Seth

17:03

@Rinzwind no, no it doesn't.

Kaz Wolfe

18:00

so much blue.

TheWanderer

blue?

Kaz Wolfe

yes.

blue names or blue profile pictures

TheWanderer

oh

yes

Byte Commander

I'm blue, daba dee daba da...

TheWanderer

nu

Kaz Wolfe

18:21

No, you're not.

Byte Commander

How can you know?

Might just be caching.

Kaz Wolfe

because there was no election

TheWanderer

pro-tempore

Kaz Wolfe

site list disagrees

TheWanderer

cache

Kaz Wolfe

18:33

site list isnt cached

or it updates quickly enough

Byte Commander

See? Blue.

Kaz Wolfe

ok

TheWanderer

CAHCE

Kaz Wolfe

shouldiblamecaching.com

TheWanderer

18:51

lel

Feeds

19:38

Search indexing on Stack Overflow will return in a few hours. We’re currently re-indexing for an Elastic 5.6.1 upgr… https://twitter.com/i/web/status/912033510784946177

Tweeted by Nick_Craver on September 24, 2017 at 7:18 PM

TheWanderer

oh thank god

I don't know how else I'd search for questions

Byte Commander

It can only get better, can't it?

Ubuntu Questions on U&L

19:56

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Q: Booting Linux on Mac with internal GPU

I own a early 2011 MacBook Pro 15" (macOS Sierra). Some weeks ago, my discrete GPU (AMD Radeon) kinda broke (as soon as the Mac had to calculate something, the screen got distorted). Because of that, I downloaded gfxCardStatus, which let me manually switch to the internal grpahics card (wich work...

linux ubuntu intel-graphics amd-graphics graphic-card

TheWanderer

20:26

just took apart my phone \o/

Byte Commander

rip

TheWanderer

and put it back together lol

Byte Commander

that was unexpected

plot twist

TheWanderer

I reapplied the thermal paste because LG is dumb

that was what they had on there

Byte Commander

That is a weird shape for a phone...

TheWanderer

20:38

>_>

Nick Alexeev

21:55

Folk, do we have a canonical question for "I've got a Win 10 laptop. How do I set up dual boot with Ubuntu?"

edwinksl

22:06

maybe this one? askubuntu.com/questions/221835/…

TheWanderer

22:33

edwinksl

what's that

Kaz Wolfe

hm...

Happy Chickens

TheWanderer

@edwinksl HELL

edwinksl

sick hue

Kaz Wolfe

happy chickens.

Android Dev

22:59

@TheWanderer did you invert the colors/

TheWanderer

that's not my photo

Byte Commander

@KazWolfe I can't help but wonder if that knife they use for the oranges will later be reused for the chickens...

Kaz Wolfe

@ByteCommander the knife i use for oranges is not suited for chickens.

(also, these chickens aren't any good for meat)

Nick Alexeev

23:43

@edwinksl Thank you. Do you think that information is still largely applicable? It's a 5-year old thread. New Ubuntu version have come out, as did Windows.

edwinksl

no idea tbh. i don't dual-boot

Nick Alexeev

Then again, that post is constantly updated.

By the way, what version would you recommend for somebody who's just starting: 16 or 17 ?
I don't have particular requirements. I simply want to watch cat videos on an Ubuntu machine.

Android Dev

@NickAlexeev 16.04. Multiple people have said that 17.04 is very unstable

Thomas Ward

@AndroidDev that's every in-between-LTS release

@AndroidDev I'm sorry, I haven't actually reported it as unstable

I've reported certain packages as unstable

but otherwise 17.04 runs pretty decently in the matching setup for fifteen other VMs I have :P

Android Dev

@ThomasWard well nvm then, it was a while ago, I guess my memory was incorrect

Thomas Ward

23:57

@AndroidDev 15.* and 14.10 were all horrid unstable

16.10 was unstable for me

Android Dev

hmm someone needs to invent ECC for the human brain :D

Thomas Ward

17.04 works, but I prefer to point people to LTS.

Brandon

Anyone with experience using TestDisk have a second to give me a hand?

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