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@Zanna hahaha, I thought it was very rare to find unhealthy vegan food, what does the box have?

hah! not rare at all

I just ate some kind of German chocolate orange fondant bar...

I've got noodles in a sauce (just open the pouch and eat it!), BBQ flavoured banana crisps, salt & vinegar toasted fava beans, chocolate love heart truffles (Valentine's Day coming up), double chocolate mini cookies, toasted seaweed crispies, vitamin enriched cat-shaped sweets (wth?) and date caramel millionaire shortbread bites. And a sample of flavoured green tea

the weirdest thing is the sweets. I think I have a friend who would be amused by them

I'll give them to her

@Zanna that all sounds very good! They probably wouldn't last long with me :p

And yeah, wth with those cat-shaped sweets! hahaha

I remember a chocolate that was shaped as a cats tongue, don't recall the name but it was very good! (and a bit expensive I guess)

hahaha sounds weird but it's the taste that matters

1:10 PM

oh, the name is literally "Cat tongue" lol

o.O

KatzenZungen

These ones are called Saure Katzen

um... I would totally not buy those

the packaging makes it look like cat food

1:12 PM

@IanC cat tungs? wat

@Zanna the eyes from those cats look very judgemental, like "What the hell, you're buying a chocolate called cat tongues?.."

@Zacharee1 they are very good, despite being weird :)

ack

I misspelled tongue

my aunt brought me some a long time ago

@IanC lol XD

too broad, unclear, or is it OK?

@IanC Yum, they're delicious :P

1:28 PM

@ByteCommander oh, you're from Germany right? They're very common there aren't they?

Yes.

Another good thing is "Schweinsöhrchen" ("pig ears"):

wish me luck stackoverflow.com/questions/42069052/…

@ByteCommander they look a bit more like mickey mouse ears than pig ears I guess :p

@Zacharee1 good luck, upvoted the question :)

thx

@IanC You can also get them without chocolate (which I believe is actually more common)

@Zacharee1 would maybe have been better on Android Enthusiasts?

1:32 PM

nope

@ByteCommander what is the non-chocolate part? like some sweet bread?

not allowed to ask about development there

Ah, ok...

But is it really development?

Meh, idk.

Palmier

A palmier (French for "palm tree"), pig's ear or elephant ear is a French pastry in a palm leaf shape or a butterfly shape, sometimes called palm leaves, cœur de France, French hearts, shoe-soles, jalebi or glasses. Palmiers are made from puff pastry, a laminated dough similar to the dough used for croissant, but without the yeast. Puff pastry is made with alternating layers of dough and butter, rolled and folded over to create possibly hundreds of flaky layers. The puff pastry is rolled out, coated with sugar, and then the two sides are rolled up together so that they meet in the middle, making...

It's called "elephant ear" in English...

weird :P

not sure we have anything similar around here

oh! are we talking food?

licorice slugs...

1:36 PM

yum liquorice :D although I only like it as tea, not really as sweets, as I don't like the taste of sugar

I could eat it all day long until intoxication killed me. Fortunately I never got enough.

hahaha

so I still live.

I think it can cause interesting digestive symptoms in excess

Drop shops in Holland <3

In our local dialect they are also called Bärendreck (bear droppings).

1:41 PM

lol

which effectively prevented them from being eaten or loved by kids.

o_O

I'm already at the bottom of the 8th page in Newest on SO

2:00 PM

Newest what?

newest questions

a comment!

haha hope it's helpful

hi

o/

What's up?

2:14 PM

Patriots won the bowl ! :D Hi ! @TheXed ! :)

utter disappointment....

But hey maybe Tom Brady will retire now and spare the rest of us having to put up with his antics for another year...

@TheXed Atlanta was sooo close ... :)

@cl-netbox with that lead, they should have won...they gave that game away and deserved to lose...

@TheXed true ! unbelievable ... how could this happen ? must have been the nerves. :)

@cl-netbox I just don't know...

2:20 PM

@TheXed Did you watch it ?

Yup I did...

I think under inflated balls after half time might be to blame too...

Journeyman Geek

2:46 PM

0_0

@TheXed dun dun dun

I'm annoyed! Everybody talks about the game last night and I don't care!

why are you annoyed that others care about things you don't care about?

@Zanna that is all anyone wants to talk about... and I can't talk about it since I don't know what happened.

start a new topic

2:53 PM

@Zanna Haha, yeah, the people at work are dumb.

@Zanna They won't do anything about changing the subject.

When I try, they change it back.

What happened at Super Bowl?

Yeah but what's new?

3:16 PM

Not my level of interest in the super bowl this year

was too busy :P

@ThomasWard Busy with inventing new dark evil magic ? :D Hi Thomas ! :)

@cl-netbox does being ill count in that category?

food poisoning

@jokerdino Patriots won after lying behind 0 : 21 in halftime ! :) Hi ! :)

@ThomasWard no ... of course not ! ... food poisoning is not funny ! Wish you the best to overcome it fast Thomas ! :)

@cl-netbox i already did.

over the weekend

some chips and water and coffee was all I ate, really

that and some solid foods from a chinese restaurant yesterday when I was feeling better

@ThomasWard Good to hear this ! :) What caused the poisoning ? Which food did you eat ?

3:30 PM

@cl-netbox not sure, i suspect something from the pizza place that I had pizza from on Friday evening

I didn't choose where to get pizza from unfortunately

otherwise it wouldn't have been a problem

(been boycotting that place I ate pizza from since their food gave food poisoning to my ex who was my then-girlfriend)

(this reaffirms the boycott)

@ThomasWard Hmmm ... seems to have been some kind of bad luck then ...

@ThomasWard I would do the same ...

@ThomasWard Nowadays we never know what we get from whom, so do we really have a chance to completely avoid something like what happened to you ?

@cl-netbox Yes. Cook everything yourself. problem solved.

@ThomasWard Guess what ? That's exactly what we do ! :)

@cl-netbox the other way is know the guy making pizza at a specific franchise/chain

and only order from there

which is what I currently do

@ThomasWard okay this is a (quite) safe and valid alternative.

3:40 PM

it may be Papa Johns, but that one franchise location I order from has only four guys who actually make the pizza and spot-check all the ingredients. One's a manager who trains everyone else. The one time they undercooked the dough I got a refund and a free pizza coupon.

They haven't screwed up since.

Probably because the inspectors showed up

Fun fact: I called inspectors on that one place I boycotted.

well, complained.

They found violations heh

@ThomasWard That is what all consumers should do ... only this changes things to the better ... me myself I do the same ! :)

4:09 PM

hello everyone :)

@Hizqeel Hello Hizqeel ! :)

@cl-netbox Hi o/ ... How are you doing? How is the day?

@Hizqeel Well, quite okay ... and your's ? How are you today ? :)

@cl-netbox I am fine.. ! :)

4:25 PM

@Hizqeel Nice ! :) Glad to read it ! :)

5:11 PM

@cl-netbox May I ask you as KVM expert a question?

Do you also have the problem that Ubuntu is unable to lock the screen while a VM in the virt-manager viewer has the input focus?

@ByteCommander Why not ? Of course ... though I'm not an expert, when I can help you, I will do so ! :)

For example if I focus my VM and leave the computer untouched for several minutes, I can still continue operating in the VM, but as soon as it loses the focus, the screen locks.

@ByteCommander I never ever tried this ... please wait a little bit, I'll try it out ... first I have to finish an edit of the question which I just answered ... :)

YESSSSS

Sure, sure. Doesn't hurry.

5:15 PM

I GOT THE POSITIONS

@cl-netbox Hi!

WHOOOO

WAT?

I've been trying to reposition the data indicator (E, H, H+, LTE) above the signal bar triangle, but every time I edited the layout XML, SystemUI broke

turns out I had to actually fully decompile and recompile the APK

BUT NOW IT WORKS

@Zanna you have a phone that has near-stock Android right?

@ByteCommander Edit finished ... sorry, don't understand ... it confuses me ... do you want to lock the screen when you're away from the machine ?

@UbuntuUser Hi ! :)

Q: Should edits get some rep for upvotes?

5:21 PM

I want that Ubuntu keeps automatically locking the screen after 5 minutes on idle, whether a VM has the focus or not.

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I was wondering, why shouldn't edits get a small bit of rep for an upvote? (Like 1 rep for upvoted question 2 for upvoted answer) Because I answered pretty badly, but someone (fabby) edited it and it was SO much better. Maybe some of the rep should go to him as well on an upvote. We could scrap t...

But currently if a VM is focused, the screen stays unlocked until the VM loses focus and locks then.

@ByteCommander This is the expected behavior ... thanks for clarification ... :)

But why?

I consider it a bug.

@ByteCommander When the VM is actively running a process and in between gets forced to lose the focus, something could break within the running guest system. :)

5:32 PM

and what do developers consider bugs as?

@cl-netbox What? How can the VM losing input focus disturb it?

I mean, I can do it manually as well.

@ByteCommander The other way around : when there is no process like e.g. upgrading packages running inside the VM and the screen of the VM turns off in idle state, then your host recognizes it and so can lock the screen. :)

I am confused...

My host should lock the screen if I'm not there for 5 minutes. Period.

I don't care what any VM is doing and whether it has the focus or not, that should not matter.

@ByteCommander Okay ... let me check it ... takes a few minutes :)

Can someone confirm this bug? bugs.launchpad.net/unity-tweak-tool/+bug/1661585

5:43 PM

@jokerdino Already did it ! Here is the topic -> askubuntu.com/questions/879732/… Please read my answer and the comments below ... :)

I also sometimes had a problem that the machine woke up from suspend (or from blanked screen?) with a black screen and I had to press the VM Host keys to release its focus for the screen to become visible again.

@cl-netbox How is it the same thing?

I think you linked the wrong question.

I found the other one.

@cl-netbox I posted it as a question askubuntu.com/q/880503/367990

@jokerdino Sorry, was checking the problem of @ByteCommander ... here is the correct link -> askubuntu.com/questions/878996/… ! :)

@ByteCommander Test finished ... screen locks as expected ... though I didn't do something within the VM ... it just ran ... :)

Hm? My sound is broken? I did not here a ping...

@ByteCommander self ping

Why though no make ping sound!?

5:58 PM

@ByteCommander Ping test

@ByteCommander pinging me softly

Nope.

@ByteCommander hard ping

Even after refoxing, no sound.

The test broke something @ByteCommander ! :) Same issue here now ! :)

@ByteCommander because you're on the page lol

it doesn't trigger sound on self-ping

at least per my observations

5:59 PM

It doesn't on any ping.

And it should make a sound on a self-reply.

At least I get a desktop-notification then.

@jokerdino Testing Thomas claim.

I hear the sound and I am sitting on the page.

@ByteCommander VM doesn't seem to like screen locks ! :)

Nathan Osman

Hi.

Hi.

It pings audibly in Chromium though...

6:02 PM

Hi ! :)

@Zacharee1 yup, Fairphone Open OS

where do the data arrows show up when you're using cellular data?

Inside the signal strength triangle

Firefox is broken

@jokerdino Are you investigating it ? :)

6:07 PM

I think it's Unity bug. :/

@jokerdino hmmm ... can you pass the bug over to the correct team please ? :)

Need to look into more before I can be sure though..

@jokerdino Please tell me how to proceed when you checked it - okay ? :)

Sure thing.

@Zanna thanks

Android Dev

6:12 PM

Yesterday I reported a user on Youtube for posting the same scam video under dozens of different names, and I just checked their channel, and it seems that Google terminated them :)

Google is quick :)

@Zacharee1 :D

gah

why can't this be easier

accidentally flashed the wrong filename, so I have to dirty flash my ROM to get SystemUI working again

To stop noobs from doing it, obviously... :P

@Zanna can you get a screenshot with the arrows? idk where they'd go

Hmm lemme see...

6:30 PM

@Zanna nvm found the images

thanks though

I need to do homework....

You should accidentally do those homework.

pls

6:52 PM

@jokerdino Is it possible to refund the bounty for @Sidahmed ? He found the solution right after he had offered it -> askubuntu.com/questions/785658/loadkeys-not-working Can you please do it ? :) Would be nice of you ... :)

Nope

iz not posible

@jokerdino Why ? I think to remember that @ThomasWard did this in another case the other day ... or am I wrong ? :)

@cl-netbox There are specific cases where refunding bounties is allowed. This is not one of them. I don't know anything about the case with Thomas.

@Seth Hi Seth ! :) Here is the topic where the bounty was refunded -> askubuntu.com/questions/801199/… ! :) Maybe we can do the same for @Sidahmed too ? :) I'm asking because ...

6:57 PM

@NathanOsman got snow up there? We've got 6 inches (15 cm) and it's still snowing.

@cl-netbox the case you're talking about was a "Offtopic" closure

If I was going to close the question, yes, I could refund the bounty.

not because they found the solution

them self-answering after the fact is a "no refund"

them requesting it be closed as a dupe of another might be a refund

if we're going to close the q

in this case, they're out of luck no refund

funny how you ping me and I appear out of nowhere and bring chaotic evil

:p

Bounties are not supposed to be refundable. Really the only reason the feature even exists is so we can close questions with bounties.

yup

@Seth or abuse of bounty system, which while rare, like someone giving bounties just to give a specific person more rep, in a large scale

which would break the rules about upvoting / rep boosting

7:02 PM

@jokerdino @Seth @ThomasWard okay thanks for clarification ... I was only asking because @Sidahmed has not a lot of reputation and more or less accidentally lost 50 now ... :)

oh yeah, that too.

@cl-netbox that's a risk you take with bounties.. if we could refund them willy nilly they wouldn't be worth much, would they? :)

@ThomasWard hahaha ... I seem to have learned something from our magician @Hizqeel ! :D :D :D

This is also why we have it documented in the bounties privilege that if you lose rep from a bounty it's more than likely GONE

@Seth yes ... that's a point ... agree on that :)

@cl-netbox not really

you just happened to mention me on a mod matter

so it spawned a summoning portal both at your location and mine

and i appeared

dark evil magic is evil and dark after all :P

7:06 PM

@ThomasWard aha ... then I better leave you alone now ... goodbye Thomas ! :)

randomly disappears into the shadows

Goodbye everybody ... see you tomorrow ! :)

user136984

@Fabby: What bad luck! Reasonably soon after I pinged you to say that I was back, I got flu and a really bad fever so I've been in bed all last week...

user136984

@NathanOsman Really? It doesn't seem quite right... Isn't Google Play a thing for Android?

user136984

@cl-netbox: Drat! We just missed each other! :D

7:10 PM

@Zacharee1 awesome, I would have had to admit I couldn't figure out how to take a screenshot

@Zanna PWR+VOLDOWN :p

hold them together

Yeah I know that's the generic method, but this device seems to have a different idea

does it have a physical home button?

@Seth stay warm

@Zacharee1 nope. Vol, power and camera

hmm

7:13 PM

@Zanna it's supposed to get above freezing today so I think we'll be fine :D

try holding down the camera button then

Nah

rip

Fairphone website says it should be holding down PWR+VOLDOWN

@Seth hahaha glass half full attitude ^_^

@Zacharee1 maybe it's my button holding technique then. I'll work on it XD

lol

should just be hold down until it does something

user136984

7:18 PM

The new Linux.Proxy.10 Trojan horse malware infects Linux devices with standard settings or that are already infected with Linux malware. Once it has gained access to a device it runs a SOCKS5 proxy server which allows attackers to connect to the device in order to hide their identities while online. Thousands of devices have been infected so far. Source.

user136984

So that's a little scary...

user136984

I just got an email about it.

@Zacharee1 eventually you start to feel like an idiot though

maybe it's broken

wait, someone has a fairphone?

7:21 PM

Could be, but it's much more likely to be some dumbness on my part

@Seth yeah :D

@Zanna Cool! have you tried running ubuntu on it?

@cl-netbox ? what you learned??

I NEED A MOD RIGHT NOW!!! OR SOMEONE WHO CAN EXPLAIN THIS!?!?!

all caps rage makes me want to smack you hard

4

with a pipe

7:26 PM

@ParanoidPanda It's alive! Alive!

@ThomasWard I have no idea what happened!?!?!?!

Q: What is the association bonus?

congrats you reached enough rep somewhere to get association bonuses on other sites your account is linked to

193

I was just awarded +100 reputation on all of my Stack Exchange accounts. What is this bonus for? It simply says Association Bonus on my reputation overview.

support faq-proposed association bonus-reputation

don't all-caps-rage next time @UbuntuUser

please.

@Seth nope - I am too cowardly after such intense struggle to get Ubuntu to work on my laptop, and extremely high levels of laziness also prevent experimentation. However if you encourage me I may be persuaded to give it a go

@ThomasWard I wasn't sure if it was a bug.

@UbuntuUser simply asking what that was before going red alert would work. Or check your rep on each profile

7:27 PM

@ThomasWard Starred!

@UbuntuUser And anyone could have told you this... :P

@ThomasWard no rainbow trout?

and you can see that it says association bonus

@ByteCommander Fresh out.

@Fabby I didn't know what it was!

@ByteCommander I have a rusty iron pipe here though.

Eh, never mind!

7:28 PM

I thought you were referring to shell pipes there actually...

@ByteCommander i have those too.

I do keep a pipe next to the bed as a blunt object just in case :p

in any case, @UbuntuUser, it's an association bonus, not a bug, nothing to worry about

I have association bonuses on at least 95 other sites :P

Hahaha I remember that day I opened the tab and I had 615 in the little green box.

@ThomasWard OK thanks!

@Zanna For me it was 514

@Zanna I had +1018 before

@JacobVlijm Lots of people take a downvote without a comment still as a personal insult after being here for a long time...

7:30 PM

i apparently got two +500 bounties xD

@ThomasWard are there other ways to get that bounus?

the association bonus?

no

@ThomasWard yes

@ThomasWard ok

only by one account reaching 200+ rep, then you get association bonus on the rest of the sites

that said, if you join a new site and your other site profile has 200+ it can give the assoc. bonus there

@ThomasWard woah impressive

7:31 PM

but only for that "new" site you've never registered / gained rep on

I see thanks!

@Fabby Oh yeah, I know I am, if I am sure an answer is fine. It's always the three stages: 1. How dare you downvote my post! 2. Yeah, well we all get them 3. Who cares?

@ThomasWard 71

@JacobVlijm I remember someone complaining about a downvote on an old post that just could not be wrong? >:-)

You only have 71 accounts.

I have 112...

7:36 PM

@Fabby and then I looked at myself and saw myself as in the image below that one :)

:-) ;-)

@Fabby great to see you every now and then btw

/shrug :)

I can't be arsed to do any work any more but still have a meeting in 1,5h...

So just killing time from my Windows Laptop... Actually looking for unanswered questions on english.se as a perfectly good question of mine got downvoted twice already because is contains the words 'arse/ass'

I could see when the US woke up just by looking at the votes...

/shrug

@Fabby haha

Nathan Osman

@ParanoidPanda Google Play?

@Seth We have a few inches.

But it stopped snowing late yesterday.