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Zacharee1

00:01

@TheBrownOne @Serg Either of you up for some Minecraft? I'm setting up minigames :D

So Netflix updated its iOS app appearance finally. It looks nice, but every icon is just a question mark in a square

user136984

00:20

@Zacharee1 Oh maybe that was GraceNote who downvoted and then removed it when I fixed the issue with the image (see comments for more information)...

Zacharee1

maybe

user136984

@Serg I know, it's because we were the ones who took up ByteCommander's challenge. He gave the initial idea, we just had to design something, so I made my thing, and Fabby made his. :)

user136984

Anyway, goodnight guys! :)

Nathan Osman

00:45

Hi.

Zacharee1

.iH

@cl-Nathan

:p

Nathan Osman

You all have no idea how hard it is to type on a 6" screen while standing up on a bus holding on with the other hand.

Zacharee1

Oh yes I do

And that's why I love Swipe

Terrance

Swipe is my buddy! Especially since it fixes my spelling! :D

Nathan Osman

You missed the 6" screen part.

Zacharee1

00:49

@NathanOsman 5.7" here

Nathan Osman

:D

Okay, fair enough.

Zacharee1

And I still love Swipe

I know the reach issue

Nathan Osman

Sometimes I can use my left hand to hold on and anchor one corner of the phone at the same time.

Oh, and also carry my lunch bag.

Zacharee1

sounds fun

Mateo

01:56

@NathanOsman :

Nathan Osman

02:09

Lololol.

Also, goodbye pre-built Nvidia kernel modules: bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=815060

user139252

02:24

@NathanOsman So, how will people get nVidia cards working? D:

user139252

This shift key is broken...

Mateo

02:39

@NathanOsman wow, and now debian gets even harder to use...

Zacharee1

You know what I love about cable internet? How it gets really slow after 5PM

Nathan Osman

I think there's a package that downloads and installs the driver.

Kind of like what the Flash package does.

Mateo

that should be fine, a check box on install would make me happy

Nathan Osman

@Zacharee1 I guess the idea is to schedule downloads overnight.

Zacharee1

sigh

Mateo

02:47

that isn't what they were trying to remove were they @NathanOsman ?

Nathan Osman

What?

They removed the packages containing the pre-built kernel modules.

Mateo

:/

huh, this is an interesting trend:

It seems there is a large number of people either uninstalling then reinstalling - or have several devices each

user139252

03:30

Scored a brand new $90 humidifier for $20!

hbdgaf

04:02

@Mateo maybe testing for you on either multiple devices or multiple VMs?

@NathanOsman @Mateo - and the argument that the binary blob can't be distributed by a linux distro is total crap, because it links to GPL code but isn't GPL compatible is crap. You can link against GPL and be closed source proprietary as long as you send any improvements to the GPL code upstream and provide access to the library you linked against (kernel source) - or do I have a completely flawed understanding of GPL?

Serg

04:27

How's that for a script ? Didn't even take me 40 mins to write

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A: Automatically reduce brightness on battery in Ubuntu 15.10?

Intro The script bellow uses dbus and on_ac_power shell script (which comes by default with Ubuntu) to poll for presence of an ac adapter and sets brightness according to values set in $HOME/.auto-backlightrc file. Installation Installation using git through terminal: Run sudo apt-get instal...

(didn't take 40 mins because of using boilerplate code and the header )

Nathan Osman

@hbdgaf good question but I always thought the spirit of the GPL was that you could always request the source.

IANAL though.

Serg

04:46

VTC this old one and new one as duplicates of this

VTC this as not about ubuntu

VTC this . Opinion based

VTC as dupe: question about minimizing from command line

hbdgaf

05:36

@NathanOsman Yes - that was for the GPL part of the code. I thought you could dual license and be compatible with GPL and non-GPL code as long as you only linked them against each other - no static builds. So, independent but interconnected code. /me not a lawyer either, but it seems like I read it somewhere. Checking.

There it was - exceptions for core compiler and kernel headers

Serg

06:02

So I'm using QQ mail , chinese client, right ?

And I've made a web app for it

on my old system, with 13.10 on it . . .long ago

When I did apt-cache search unity-webapps just now, look what showed up there ? unity-webapps-qq-mail

Either I have contributed to Ubuntu in my meager ways, or there was an existing app, which i didn't know about

Ravan

09:19

hi @Seth @Serg

Ubuntu Questions on U&L

14:06

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Q: Where to tar entire USB flash drives?

I want to do all my archiving and compression on the command line. I have a USB flash drive located at /dev/disk/by-label/SanDiskData (which links to /dev/sdc1). I thought I could simply do: $ cd /dev/disk/by-label $ sudo tar cfv ~/data.tar SanDiskData But then the size of /home/data.ta...

user136984

Morning all! Feeling much better this morning! :)

user136984

I think the aftermath of the flu is finally leaving me... :)

Zacharee1

14:33

@ParanoidPanda Oh good!

user136984

VTC this 16.04 question.

Oli

15:10

Spent an hour trying to recombine a RAID array with mdadm when it's actually a btrfs array. >_<

user139252

15:22

Was anyone else invited to join the U&L chat earlier on?

Zacharee1

no

user139252

Strange D=

Zacharee1

download.cnet.com is down

user136984

Big Momma's House has just been delivered!!! :D

cl-netbox

Hello ! :)

@ParanoidPanda : Hi my friend ! :) restored ! :) back to qtox-unity ! :)

user136984

15:44

:D

user136984

@cl-netbox: Yeah, I will definitely write to the package maintainers about that...

cl-netbox

@ParanoidPanda The thing is ... there seems to be no alternative to install the newest version except if you compile it yourself - but what about updating it without recompiling ?

James

@RPiAwesomeness BTW, my brother joined SE and does Pi stuff. He's been working on some fun stuff with his sense HAT and pi0

Serg

Top of the morning to you lads o/

cl-netbox

@Serg Hello my friend ! ... nice to see you ! :)

Serg

15:56

@cl-netbox ^_^ like wise my friend ! How have you been ?

James

Morning!

cl-netbox

@Serg been quite busy ... made some new answers this week ... :)

@James Hello and good morning ! :)

Serg

@cl-netbox I've been somewhat busy as well, but for the most part , I am just struggling to stay awake. Yesterday had written a quick script for brightness control, today it got accepted. Also, hopefully another answer will be accepted, one about pausing background process that spawned from a script. Meanwhile, I have assignment #3 in my python class . . .need to study more in other classes though

James

Gosh, nobody sells pagers anymore.

cl-netbox

@Serg : that thing with the accepts ... this seems somewhat complicated ... some users say "wow - great - it works - thank you so much" ... and disappear ... without an accept or an upvote ... but : that's life ... :)

@Serg : for staying awake ... use our good old successful solution : a big mug of coffee and a good smoke ... will do this now ! ... back in 5 minutes ... :)

Rinzwind

16:20

Messy askubuntu.com/questions/739765/ubuntu-necesita-antivirus

@James evening

cl-netbox

Good afternoon @Rinzwind ! :)

Serg

@cl-netbox yeah, most of my answers are not accepted. It's a holiday when OP accepts an answer :)

And especially when it's a script

Like "YES! My efforts were not in vain ! "

cl-netbox

@Serg : yes I know ... I gave you some "compensation" for your effort ! :)

Rinzwind

weird askubuntu.com/questions/739802/…

Serg

@cl-netbox ^_^ thank you very much. I've left a little bit too earlier

cl-netbox

16:26

@Serg : Thank you very much my friend ! :)

@Serg : what makes me wonder from time to time is the fact that "mickey mouse answers" attract more users than solutions for serious problems ... but again ... that's life ! :)

Serg

@cl-netbox "mickey mouse answers " ? that's an interesting way to put it. I think to some extend that's true. The big problem with serious answers is that they take time to develop. Very often one could post a great solution , but by the time you post it, OP has accepted half-working answer from another user or abandoned the question

Timing is a big problem on stackoverflow in general

cl-netbox

@Serg : yes for sure ... I completely agree with you ! :)

Rinzwind

@Serg solution: post a quick answer and then expand it :=)

Serg

@Rinzwind that's what I've started doing lately with questions that require just one or two lines of code, but if it's a script - that may take time.

cl-netbox

@Rinzwind : This is not so easy with the answers @Serg normally writes ! :)

Rinzwind

16:40

@cl-netbox his problem >:=D I have several 25+ answers that needed 2 lines >:-D

cl-netbox

@Rinzwind hahaha ... nice ... that is quite a good idea ... but you need some kind of ... let's say ... LUCK ... :D

Serg

@Rinzwind <.< what's your secret ? how do you find these questions ? And @muru too . 3 questions, pretty short, all accepted. Like WTF , how you guys do et ???

It's like, I wanna be a cool guy too !

muru

@Serg most of my "short" answer ones are questions that should be dupes, but I couldn't find anything appropriate to close against

Like the guy with execve("ls",…)

I swear that should have something to close against.

Serg

Well, askubuntu.com/q/475198/295286 This ? @muru

:) I typically just google stuff. . . .

muru

@Serg bingo!

VTCing in 3..2..1..

Serg

16:48

Glad I could help :)

muru

Testing something

this should be monospace

this isn't as it is in backticks

Dafuq

Serg

Did you mean backticks ?

muru

No, until five minutes ago, code spans were showing up in serif font on mobile chat

And just now they stopped.

Sigh. I'd hoped to get 10-20 rep on Meta Stack Exchange for that. :(

Serg

Maybe NathanOsman is doing something with his scripts again :p

Henry WH Hack

I don't know what I am doing here should I be here?

What's here any way?

Serg

17:03

@HenryWHHack well you're in AskUbuntu chat room, so if you're into Linux and Ubuntu, you're in the right place :)

Rinzwind

@Serg just keep looking at the frontpage when it is a slow day >:-D

Serg

And even if not, you're still welcome :)

@Rinzwind That's what I shall do >:) I am also subscribed to rss feed of the command line tag

Rinzwind

@Serg dutch times around 8.30am to 11.30am are very good.

that's gmt-1 probably

Serg

@Rinzwind Well, that's like what . . .10 pm at my place when it's 8AM in Denmark ? Yeah, in the past I would stay at night. Now it's more difficult

Removed my synaptics driver . . . Will be back in 15 seconds - need reboot

and yet it is still there Oo

Serg

17:34

OK . . . so synaptics driver removal didn't work, but disabling touchpad in dconf works like charm

that's what's it all about by the way

Anybody with 15.10 or 15.04 in the chat ?

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Serg

Sneaky spammers !!!

Henry WH Hack

17:49

Ubuntu is a good os

very easy simple

Thijser

My system is showing me random parts of my memory during login, this seems like a bug where should I report this?

James

Whoa. Mobile chat has improved a lot.

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Thijser

But anyone know which launchpad I should go to in order to report an issue with random parts of memory (including pics from another user) be showed to me during boot?

James

18:05

Sounds like a graphics card bug

Thijser

Shouldn't even the graphic card be forbidden from seeing memory content of other users?

I can see images in the home folder of other users

By the way I'm using the NVIDIA binairy driver version 352.63 from nvidia-352-updates

cl-netbox

18:23

Goodbye ! :)

Thijser

ggodbye

user136984

@cl-netbox: Bye! :)

Byte Commander

@ParanoidPanda He already left the room, don't ping a person that's already gone just to say "bye"!

He will only see it the next time he logs in, and then it has no meaning any more... :P

user136984

@ByteCommander: Yeah, I guess you're right, but I just sort of felt that I should... :D

Serg

18:42

@ParanoidPanda what's your Ubuntu version ? cc @ByteCommander

Aaand it got silent once i showed up

Byte Commander

@Serg Sry, busy in another room. The Werewolf of course. :)

Serg

Excellent ! @ByteCommander help me test a dbus command once you have time later: askubuntu.com/a/739805/295286

Byte Commander

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@Serg Sorry, I'm on a desktop without any touch devices... :/

Serg

@ParanoidPanda and you ? ^

user136984

@Serg: Oh, save as wolfy. ;)

Serg

18:58

@ParanoidPanda OK, and is that a laptop ?

user136984

@Serg: Yes, why?

Serg

@ParanoidPanda I want to test dbus command that disables touchpad. It works in 14.04 but i cannot test it in VM, because it doesn't have touchpad option. Besides i wanna ensure it works on actual hardware

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A: How to completely disable the touchpad device on my computer? (It's back on after a reboot)

Multiple ways can be done. I've chosen two very simple ones. First approach is by using dconf (and this is my prefered approach, since it survives reboots at least on my 14.04 LTS system ) , more specifically this command: dconf write /org/gnome/settings-daemon/peripherals/touchpad/touchpad-ena...

user136984

@Serg: I only have a touchpad so I don't think that that's such a good idea... :P

Byte Commander

@ParanoidPanda You have a keyboard as well, don't you? :P

Serg

@ParanoidPanda Sure if you don't feel comfortable, i understand :) But it is perfectly safe. Append false to disable and run same command with true to enable

user136984

19:05

@ByteCommander @Serg: Maybe I'll have a go later... :)

Nathan Osman

19:36

Best. Comments. Ever.

Serg

@NathanOsman them cars need some discipline these days XD

Mateo

19:58

@hbdgaf nah, i only tested on a handful myself, say 3-4

user136984

20:17

Has anyone installed Ubuntu 16.04 Beta 1 yet? Because I'd like to ask someone who has about something...

Serg

:/ Why I haven't done that yet ?

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21:03

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user136984

VTC this question as unclear.

Serg

Already did

user136984

How dare he come to a computer site and call computer stuff "shit"?!

user136984

So rude...

user136984

No one's going to want to help him if he is like that...

Serg

21:14

Well, I'd still try to help , but seriously . . . he sounds like he's high or something

user136984

I'm not even too sure what he's talking about... But sounds like he wants something to do with Windows rather than Ubuntu so it's probably off-topic anyway...

user136984

He probably bought a machine with Ubuntu pre-installed, did something crazy and formatted the disk... And now he wants to put Windows on it or something and doesn't know how...

user136984

I'm not sure, but that's what it sounds like, or maybe he wants to install software on a formatted disk with no Operating System... :D

Serg

He tried to put openelec on it, which is like a distro for entertainment system, but . . . still off topic

user136984

Ah...

Thijser

21:48

+Anybody by any chance know what causes this: W: Failed to fetch http://archive.com/ubuntu/dists/xenial/InRelease Clearsigned file isn't valid, got 'NOSPLIT' (does the network require authentication?)
?

user136984

Well, goodnight folks! I'm off to bed now! :)

Rinzwind

@Thijser problem with your proxy

oh and see bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=807049 for some info

Thijser

Wouldn't that affect every other package as well?

For me this only affects xenial/InRelease

Thijser

22:23

@Rinzwind I have no proxy configured by the way, it's just my laptop a router and a optic fibre

Nathan Osman

Freenode is having some issues. Frequent netsplits are making things ugly.

Zacharee1

22:58

Serg

23:37

@Zacharee1 average owners do that, great owners do this:

Zacharee1

lol

@Serg wanna play a minigame?

Serg

@Zacharee1 nah, I'm gonna be leaving in 20 mins.

By the way

Zacharee1

aww ok

Serg

I started building on that mountain

But i don't remember what server we were on

Zacharee1

That was mv I think

@Serg you should play this minigame. It isn't a long one

Serg

23:47

@Zacharee1 nah. . . .I'll get to it once i get home. . .

Zacharee1

But I'll be studying then :/

Serg

Well . . . tomorrow maybe ? ^_^ I'm off tomorrow

Zacharee1

OK

macurie

When I try to install python with Conda I get:

/opt/conda/pkgs/python-3.5.1-0/bin/python: error while loading shared libraries: libpython3.5m.so.1.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

How do I fix that?

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