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1:51 AM

gnome-paint is 4 stars xpaint is 3 stars. Would that be accurate? Is there anything better? Note I use gimp for file conversions but it is slow and awkward.

TheWanderer

why not just use an online converter? image.online-convert.com

WinEunuuchs2Unix

2:14 AM

I wanna free-hand sketch the new apartment and add measurements tomorrow night.

There is also Tux Paint but it seems designed for younger children than me with sound effects :)

@TheWanderer I do use on-line converters for .gif to make it smaller, but haven't tried for reducing .png size to fit in Ask Ubuntu yet.

@Zanna I heard the rain in India kill hundreds a few days ago. Hope you and your friends / colleagues are all ok.

Zanna

@WinEunuuchs2Unix thank you yes, the rain we have been getting in this region has not caused any problems that I know of, except possibly increasing the state government's indifference to the water crisis

WinEunuuchs2Unix

@Zanna Glad you region was spared, sorry for the one(s) that weren't and of course we can't rely on governments to help us, mostly just to annoy us. I've developed a recipe of trying best just to ignore them.

Zanna

2:49 AM

Hmm

WinEunuuchs2Unix

^^^ I'm afraid I'll have to VTC that as too broad :P

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3:09 AM

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Q: Kensington SD I/O Read Error, not recognised on Ubuntu 19.04?

I have two Kensington SD cards that will not be recognised on my ubuntu 19.04 OS. They are definitely working though, when I plug them into my windows 10 computer they register. I also have an old ScanDisk SD that does register on both the windows and linux OS'. I plugged the Kensington SD card...

Zanna

@WinEunuuchs2Unix I was thinking that if one chooses to ignore governments then one ought to be actively creating alternatives. Someone told me a story about a gated housing complex where the monthly combined expenditure of all households on water (brought by tanker lorry) was 300,000 rupees (a good annual salary). They formed a committee, researched, and decided to spend 600,000 rupees on a permanent water collection & recycling & storage solution so they wouldn't need to buy water

That's an awesome story and I'm 100% an advocate of organising in your community

But, I feel like very many people most affected by water scarcity have no power or resources to do things like that

Only the middle class can afford to buy tanker water like that (or live in gated housing compounds)

So for the underprivileged population it's hard to think of an alternative to demanding action at state level to manage infrastructure effectively

I mean, managing infrastructure to provide for the people's most fundamental needs is surely the first thing a government ought to concern itself with...

I did read a suggestion that something of the size and nature of a river catchment area might be something that could be managed as a commons (rather than by the state or (god forbid) private companies), that is an inaliable resource held in common and managed by those who use it

And I think that could probably work... perhaps the city could manage its water resources like that by forming a suitable body

So, should I be demanding action from the state or looking for ways to transfer power from the state to stakeholders who actually give a damn

I don't know. So yeah, definitely too broad

WinEunuuchs2Unix

3:29 AM

@Zanna Back in May I floated (pun noted) the idea of storing rain water to you and EK or Kluffy. In the terminator movie you'll see they have flash flood run off's constructed in LA. Same concept for collect rain water except it flows into reservoirs so huge it boggles the mind. Then for other 10 months of the year the rest of the country has so much water everyone has a lawn irrigated 7 days a week twice a day. Public water fountains and bathhouses even.

This concept used to be a pubic service by government for the people but all public paid for utilities like water, power and phone (here at least) have been floated on New York Stock Exchange and privatized. Now everyone including government and business (not to mention workers and consumers) service the fiat currency system.

Where I am in Canada visa ve public service being floated into private corporations backed by stocks and bonds has nothing to do with India mind you. I know very little about it. The first thing I learned decades ago were the Beatles loved the place. Later I learned Bombay got renamed to Mumbai or something. Of course I've heard of Kashmir District and tensions with Pakistan.

For all I know the Indian Deep State has decided hauling water on your head is good for the economy and water scarcity keeps people from rioting.

Oh yes I also know your president is an Associated Football star / retiree. I kind of promoted him as a good change for India when he talked about running for office.

Or maybe he was into Cricket...

I think India was talking about a space program a fortnight ago. Perhaps they need to get their heads out of the clouds and back down to earth where 3 squares a day and free water should be priority.

Zanna

3:47 AM

Rainwater harvesting is probably the best and simplest solution for us here

Again I think action is needed at the state level to implement

WinEunuuchs2Unix

Well you need to manipulate governments sometimes to do what is good. Anyway time for counting sheep. Nice talking as always :)

Zanna

Good night! Maybe on this particular day I should consider whatever any part of Indian government does to be absolutely none of my business :)

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1:14 PM

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Q: Proposed edit rejected - new edition is almost the same and didn't solve some problems

I proposed an edit on this post. It was rejected with the reason This edit did not correct critical issues with the post - view the revision history to see what should have been changed. The new edit is almost the same, save some minor style details, and what moves me to post this question...

discussion suggested-edits edits

Felipe Augusto

1:28 PM

@Zanna since it's in your profile on stack, I'm pinging you now to check if you can help me, I've made this question: askubuntu.com/questions/1165918/…

hehehe

or anyone?

Zanna

@FelipeAugusto sorry, I don't know about that

terdon

1:55 PM

@FelipeAugusto I don't know either, but I can tell you that your question doesn't have enough detail. How are you connecting the screen? VGA? DVI? HDMI? Is the cable OK? Have you tried another screen? A different cable? Different connection? Are there any messages in dmesg that could be relevant? What is the output of xrandr with the monitors connected?

Add all the answers to those question to your question. Especially the xrandr one.

Felipe Augusto

2:24 PM

@terdon Thank you! I've added there details!

terdon

2:40 PM

Ah, that's much more informative, thanks!

terdon

2:56 PM

@FelipeAugusto yeah, sounds like a hardware problem :/

Thomas Ward

100% sure it's hardware

esp. since multiple OSes were tested and multiple monitors with different cables

terdon

yep

Also the screen works on a different machine.

Thomas Ward

yep, so the issue is 100% the hardware on that system in question @FelipeAugusto

terdon

@ThomasWard That wouldn't be conclusive. There may be 2 graphics cards for example and if one of them is disabled in the BIOS, all OSs would have the same issue. But that doesn't seem to be the case.

Also, apparently we're wrong. WTF?

@abu-ahmedal-khatiri by adding the pci = noaer fixed the issue!!! thank you! — Felipe Augusto 51 secs ago

firstly make sure you have 4.15 kernel. this issue may a PCIe lower state, try to disable your pcie on the grub add pci = noaer into /etc/default/grub file and reboot. — abu-ahmed al-khatiri 10 mins ago

Thomas Ward

o.O

@terdon if they go back to the 'other OS' they were testing and the issue remains then it's drivers and configurations

but it does seem hardware problematic usually

@FelipeAugusto you don't have to @ ping us in the comments on your post, you can just ping us here in chat ;)

salts @terdon for reasons

terdon

3:03 PM

The pci = noaer thing would presumably go on one of the OS lines of grub, right? So why would it affect anything else?

@FelipeAugusto where did you add that option exactly?

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3:33 PM

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Q: Edubuntu 14.04 supported by askubuntu.com?

https://askubuntu.com/help/on-topic states in part: Questions that you may ask: Using and administering official Ubuntu flavors including: Edubuntu (14.04), Ubuntu GNOME, Kubuntu, Ubuntu Kylin, Lubuntu, Mythbuntu (16.04), Ubuntu Studio, Xubuntu, Ubuntu MATE, Ubuntu Touch, Ubuntu Budgi...

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Felipe Augusto

@ThomasWard thank you! I'm starting to use more chats right now!

@terdon I added to the /etc/default/grub file

it's like this:

GRUB_DEFAULT=0
GRUB_TIMEOUT_STYLE=hidden
GRUB_TIMEOUT=10
GRUB_DISTRIBUTOR=`lsb_release -i -s 2> /dev/null || echo Debian`
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash"
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX=""
pci = noaer

terdon

Ooooh! So as a general option.

I didn't even know that was possible!

What was the other OS you tested with, @FelipeAugusto? Was it another Linux or something else, Windows or whatever?

Felipe Augusto

I tested with Win 10

terdon

@FelipeAugusto And it now works in win10 as well?

Felipe Augusto

I didn't test, let me check

terdon

3:43 PM

@FelipeAugusto Thanks. I'm just curious now :)

Felipe Augusto

@terdon it worked on win 10, both systems checked now

the only think I don't know is why that started to happen, maybe some update ..

Rinzwind

@terdon for you askubuntu.com/questions/1165944/using-wget-i-with-flags >:)

@FelipeAugusto unlikely. I have the same problem with a windows 10 machine: as soon disconnect my screen and reconnect it a day later 1 out of 10 times it never ever works. Solution for me: I have another screen here. If I use THAT it works and then the not working one works too all of a sudden. Me and my co-worker switch screens every 2 weeks due to this :D

terdon

@FelipeAugusto that's so weird

@Rinzwind Yeah, but Felipe said the screen didn't work on Ubuntu or on Windows and changing a grub setting made it work on both!?

Rinzwind

grub has nothing to do with an external screen :P

it does with the driver but ... in my case it is windows not wanting to see the 2nd screen :P

terdon

4:00 PM

@Rinzwind read the transcript

58 mins ago, by terdon

firstly make sure you have 4.15 kernel. this issue may a PCIe lower state, try to disable your pcie on the grub add pci = noaer into /etc/default/grub file and reboot. — abu-ahmed al-khatiri 10 mins ago

Do you understand why that might have affected both OSs @Rinzwind?

Eliah Kagan

4:14 PM

@Rinzwind Sorry about my hideous edit message on that answer. I just noticed that it reads like I'm pointing out a way Ubuntu and Debian are different, when actually I'm saying they're the same. Anyway, I think that edit helps -- for the overwhelming majority of readers, your answer is much more useful than the other answers on that question, and I figured it would be better to just do that edit than to add another comment.

Rinzwind

5:28 PM

@EliahKagan I don't mind. the answer is not mine but SO's >:)

@terdon nope. there should not be. pcie lower state should be reset on each boot.

fun times:

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A: Stuck in tty's in ubuntu

It all started when I mistakenly uninstalled python3. What did you expect to happen? Removing that should have listed a whole lot of packages to remove. The best option is probably to use a live session, make a backup of your personal files and then re-install --without formatting your pa...

Thomas Ward

some users are blind rinzy

terdon

@Rinzwind it's weird, isn't it?

Thomas Ward

but you might also want to reconsider the tone at parts in your post, some users could construe it as being "rudeness"

just my 2 cents

yawns

terdon

yeah, no need to attack the OP. Most people don't know what python is let alone that it's essential to the OS.

Thomas Ward

yep

Rinzwind

5:38 PM

well he wont do it again now >:)

Thomas Ward

maybe not. but our point still stands :P

diamond-storms the post

Rinzwind

Changed it but I do disagree. I am not here to be nice. Stupid actions need firm and clear responses.
People get fired for less :=)

Thomas Ward

I adjusted yoru post more

brought back parts of the original

but reworded some things to be less 'accusatory' in tone :)

Rinzwind

sigh

Thomas Ward

and while i agree

meh

yawns

Rinzwind

5:42 PM

:D

Thomas Ward

i need a drink...

Rinzwind

I have 2 2 ltr bottles of coke next to me

Thomas Ward

... is it EOD yet so I can go home and get drunk...? :|

Rinzwind

for me it is

19:43 >:)

Byte Commander

you healthy responsible adults...

Thomas Ward

5:43 PM

drags @ByteCommander to the salt mines

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Epsilon

10:31 PM

is there anything i can try to get help for my really niche question?

maybe if not here or on SE in general, then somewhere else?

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