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8:42 AM

Q: How to pragmatically deal with down-votes on a good question when you are the author of the questions?

Recently someone down-voted a question I posted on Ask Ubuntu which was a very good question. I do not give a damn but is it alright to sit and see the down-vote on a good question or is there a way in Ask Ubuntu, to pragmatically deal with it? There could be a flag available to users to report a...

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10:26 AM

Q: Merge [meta:down-votes] and [meta:downvoting]

Here on meta, we have two tags regarding downvotes down-votes and downvoting. Can we merge them into one? Currently down-votes has 8 questions and downvoting has 63 questions. In my opinion, though, we should use down-votes as upvoting does not exist while up-votes does. This way we can keep it c...

feature-request meta tag-merge

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nutty about natty

1:39 PM

hi there

seems like I've encountered an old but open bug:

Ubuntu slows down and hangs while copying file from/to USB

Hi While copying many and large files to and from a USB drive, the system becomes incredibly slow and sometimes hangs. I watched the system monitor while it was running slowly but cpu was not above 50% at any time, the same for memory. I'm using the "WD my passport" HD with a USB3 port of my "ASUS K55VD" laptop. Description: Ubuntu 13.04 Release: 13.04 nautilus: Installed: 1:3.6.3-0ubuntu16 Candidate: 1:3.6.3-0ubuntu16 Version table: *** 1:3.6.3-0ubuntu16 0 500 http://ubuntu-archive.mirror.nucleus.be/ raring/main amd64 Packages 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status Steps to reproduce: 1) Aquire many large files (like your totally legit moviecollection) 2) Copy files to external HD 3) Open your browser and be sad when your system becomes incredibly slow after a few minutes This is my first bugreport so if I'm missing something, please tell me. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.04 Package: nautilus 1:3.6.3-0ubuntu16 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.8.0-27.40-…

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Undecided / Confirmed

any known workarounds?

see also: askubuntu.com/questions/963213/…

(e.g. duplicity or command line, perhaps?)

or, performing copy-paste operation after a clean reboot with no other apps eating RAM / resources ?

(I'm trying to back up a virtualbox vm worth some 50gb)

or maybe rsync (unix.stackexchange.com/a/608800/30271)

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Dan

3:36 PM

I would recommend trying those workarounds. They make sense.

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6:25 PM

Q: Cookie consent banner won't stay away

Whenever I click the Accept all cookies button on the cookie consent banner at the bottom of the page, it disappears, but then it reappears again as soon as I navigate to another page or reload the same page. I am logged in and have had an account for years. I don't visit Ask Ubuntu very often so...

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8:35 PM

Q: How should we handle questions from users asking how to brute force passwords or break encryption?

In my opinion questions that ask how to hack or bypass encryption should be closed as off-topic. Here are some examples of some recent questions: I don't have the LUKs password for my HP notebook I forgot my sda5_crypt password These questions seem to always come from new users, so the narratives...