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1:13 AM

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Q: Mirroring download.docker.com with debmirror

I'm running an apt mirror server for an isolated network, which successfully mirrors Debian, Ubuntu and a number of apt-based repositories using the debmirror utility (v2.27). Unfortunately the script syntax that I've crafted using debmirror does not work for download.docker.com. I've tried a nu...

Aaron Hall

3:01 AM

My cousin in Atlanta is stuck, needs to make a bootable thumbdrive, his computer isn't working, all he has is his android phone, some empty thumb drives, wifi, and a converter that lets him connect his thumbdrives to his phone. Any suggestions?

Seth

3:37 AM

@AaronHall get a terminal emulator and use dd

maybe? will probably require root tho

and that's assuming both the phone and adapter support USB OTG

Aaron Hall

He's not that leet...

He's a noob.

Seth

Well there's an app in the store I see called ISO 2 USB. Maybe try that?

Aaron Hall

I found an app that's supposed to make a thumbdrive bootable from android without root, so I think he's going to be able to do that...

Seth

or EtchDroid

Aaron Hall

"USB - Bootable USB Methods:Install Multi Windows"

The reviews seem... weird.

@Seth oh yeah, EtchDroid is the one I told him to use...

Seth

3:44 AM

Lemme know if it works

someone help pls. This sounds like Adam Young but I can't find the track anywhere.

It's killing me for some reason. I could swear I've heard that before...

Aaron Hall

I'm just trying to get him to stop trying to recover Windows. He literally paid $49 for a tech support call with a free followup... He upgraded... from 7 to 8 to 8.1 to 10 Home and for some reason decided he needed 10 pro - which is where it went wrong.

Seth

throws nickle "Get yourself a better computer kid"

Jasper Loy

Hey @seth lol

Seth

hey jasper lol

Jasper Loy

Am I right that is jrg?

Seth

3:52 AM

it is jrg

you can tell because he's the one with a sane expression on his face.

idk what I was thinking.. but I look like an idiot xD

Jasper Loy

I see that you and jrg have not changed much over the past decade or so

Seth

I mean, I haven't even been here a decade (although we're getting closer..)

James might have just hit a decade? Or he's just under a decade.

Jasper Loy

I did not like ubuntu mate 18.04

Seth

Oh?

Jasper Loy

The menus were a bit messed up

The icons on the menus were not the same as before

Seth

3:53 AM

To be honest I've had to use Windows 10 for school. I don't anymore but I hated the new "unity" replacement so I've procrastinated installing Linux.

Jasper Loy

And no matter which theme I tried it was very ugly

Seth

Oh dang :/

They didn't just move the cheese, they changed its color too!

Jasper Loy

So maybe I will try ubuntu 18.10 with the new gnome shell and new icons

And I think linux mint just gets more bloated with each release

Many features I don't need

Seth

You can install just cinnamon on Ubuntu. Maybe that's the best of both worlds for you?

Jasper Loy

And debian is getting more bloated too

In fact debian seems to be getting more buggy over the years

It's strange how good things get worse and bad things get better sometimes

The world just goes round and round

I recently got a new windows 10 computer

So I will use that as my primary machine now

linux will just be for my old backup machine

Seth

3:57 AM

Windows 10 is terrible. But it's also not bad.

Jasper Loy

Windows 10 also has lots of bugs

Seth

Like, it's a decent OS. When it works it's great. But lots of spying happening and it also has a bunch of bugs.

Jasper Loy

But with my new hardware it is very fast, and I get to use windows software

Seth

That's nice.

I have a few Windows only games too.

Jasper Loy

Anyway if you are bored you can check out my new youtube channel in my profile

Bye bye!

Seth

3:58 AM

Ok!

Have a good morning/afternoon/evening @JasperLoy :)

Videonauth

4:20 AM

@Seth windows games are no longer really an issue :)

spend the past days playing through witcher III

Aaron Hall

@Videonauth nice, I've been hearing good things about gaming on linux...

Videonauth

@AaronHall the past 4 weeks have been a blast

the developtment on proton and wine and dxvk is moving on by the minute

its even hard to keep up with updates and all around :)

and more and more windows games work out of the box nearly

spcr.netlify.com

this database of games from steam is growing by the minute too

Microsoft Pledges to Protect and Defend Linux!!!

►

Seth

4:55 AM

@Videonauth and I have one or two that won't run in Linux ;)

Videonauth

@Seth oh which ones?

Seth

@Videonauth Sea of Thieves is the big one.

MS owns the game studio so.. haha

It's DRM'd to the moon and back.

Videonauth

well but is that a native linux game?

oh misunderstoof that well if you tried to run it through steam with steamplay proton/proton beta you should report your findings here spcr.netlify.com/app/635390

well im off for now laying down a bit and at least give my eyes a rest (eventhou i might not sleep as always)

Ubuntu Questions on U&L

5:12 AM

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Q: unix:///tmp/supervisor.sock no such file

I just mistakenly installed a package and I removed it. when I tried to check the status of the supervisorctl, it shows above error. all other package in that service is no longer working as it was before the error. please help me out. i am working on ubutun 16.04 on digital ocean.

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Seth

5:33 AM

@Videonauth It's not even on steam. Only in the Windows store.

blade19899

7:30 AM

@ThomasWard @Rinzwind thanks for the help with my TLS questions yesterday... I figured it out myself, eventually, so I enabled TLSv1 for testing. Turns out some/most of our users had custom code(C/C#/C++) that connected using TLSv1.... We've disabled that, and their code stopped working.... TLSv1, released in the f'ing 90s, and they hard coded that. Un f'ing believable!

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Q: Ubuntu Unity top panel buttons are stuck at lockscreen

After updating Ubuntu from 16.04 to 18.04 (using Unity), I started to observe a very strange behaviour: sometimes after locking screen (Win + L) and some random events (I tried but failed to figure out which exactly) buttons in top panel become "pressed" but no dropdown shown. That's not a probl...

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8:23 AM

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Q: Not getting some of the comment and badge notifications

Comments Notifications: I recently commented on this post. Earlier whenever I used to comment on a post and get a reply from OP just after my comment even without mentioning my name, I used to get notifications, but since some days I am not getting more than 2 comment notifications. I use Stack E...

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9:22 AM

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Q: Automated logout of present session to refresh group commands?

So, I'm looking at automating a setup of service instances with AWS. AWS allows you to run shell scripts on instance creation. However, I've run into one little snag. I want, on initial ssh into the server, use of the docker command. I'm not really devops, so apologies if this is Linux 101 stuf...

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10:09 AM

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Q: running python flask app with vent on VPS in background

I am trying to run a flask app on my VPS in production environment. The problem is that I can't alter any of the VPS packages, and it uses a python3.5 interpreter as default. The version that is needed for my App to work is python3.6or more. The solution was to use a virtual environment to make ...

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10:41 AM

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Q: DNS-Entry changes after ping

I hope you could help me, I'm loosing my mind. I have a fresh installed elementary os juno (Ubuntu 18.04). I set as dns-server 192.168.11.1 (my pfsense). I check a dns-entry. $ dig www.internal.domain Response: ;; ANSWER SECTION: www.internal.domain. 0 IN A 192.168.11.44 Thats right and ...

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4:25 PM

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Q: Disable "device removed" from touchscreen HID on Ubuntu 18.10

I have ubuntu 18.10 installed on a Z83 board, along with a Dell S2240T touchscreen, with no physical keyboard and mouse (this is for a special application that is a music display on a piano). This worked previously on 16.04 (on a rPi), specifically the screen could be put in power saver mode, b...

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David Foerster

5:00 PM

Hi all!

Last night I had the joy to learn how it feels to have a joint relocated – twice.

And today I had to deal with a surgeon’s office that is open 4 h/day but the hours are posted nowhere and nobody picks up the phone or, if they do, I get snide remarks instead of answers for not knowing how health bureaucracy works.

Zanna

D:

David Foerster

At least I’m not paying out of my nose for ER visits.

Zanna

whichever 4 hours we feel like

David Foerster

Fortunately not. I went into the office in person and, although the surgeon’s office was closed, the receptionist of another doctor in the same shared office gave the hours.

…which differed wildly from those on the door sign.

Zanna

:/

Kaz Wolfe

6:23 PM

hey @TheWanderer android question for you.

So I have a bultin VPN on my phone, and i'd like to use Tasker to toggle it. Do you know any ways (via intents or similar) I can get my VPN to enable?

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Q: I can not reinstall MySQL because it keeps the old password

Problem Hi, my problem is that today I did the uninstallation of mysql with this comand: sudo apt-get remove --purge mysql* sudo apt-get purge mysql* sudo apt-get autoremove sudo apt-get autoclean sudo apt-get remove dbconfig-mysql sudo apt-get dist-upgrade but then I tried to reinstate it wi...

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Q: Activation /Config of Preempt RT

i am new to linux or ubuntu so forgive me for being dump, i installed the Preempt RT patch, how can i know if i have installed correctly, and it was activated ? if it was right, what configuration shall be done, and how to do them ?

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PerlDuck

"SD card won't mount for no reason" -- I wouldn't mount for no reason either. (Ok, that was mean.)

TheWanderer

6:44 PM

Wat

jrg

7:01 PM

@JasperLoy @Seth not a decade yet

only ~8 years

TheWanderer

7:24 PM

@KazWolfe dunno. Tasker might not be able to do it directly, and I don't know if there's a programmatic way

But I can look

Kaz Wolfe

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8:37 PM

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Q: Find number of dirty pages (modified pages) for a process

I am trying to track the rate at which pages are being modified by a process in Linux and I came across this Soft Dirty PTEs which certainly can help me. I was also able to find a c script that makes use of maps and pagemap to get me the PTEs parsed along with the dirty bit at this SO Answer - ...

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8:52 PM

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Q: How do I control whether ZFS arrays show in the devices pane in Ubuntu?

I am using Ubuntu Bionic 18.04 with XFCE as my DE. I have mounted a zfs array 'big-tank' to /media/big-tank, however, it does not show up in the devices pane. Additionally, the leftover space from a different pool does appear there, in spite of it not being mounted to /media. user@ubuntu:~$ zfs...