Ask Ubuntu General Room

Zacharee1

9:00 PM

pls don't kill my phone

hmm that's not right

4G+ and the USC data arrows

anyone know about an online diff?

Nathan Osman

diffchecker.com

Zacharee1

rip

those two files are the same...

aha

found different ones

I'm gonna be daring and just replace the entire smali folder

at least, the parts that don't have names too long for Windows

lol rip

that just killed SystemUI

Nathan Osman

9:15 PM

RIP SystemUI

Zacharee1

luckily I still have a working version

Seth

deja vu

Nathan Osman

Speaking of Java, today is Android-app-writing-day for me.

WinEunuuchs2Unix

Today is grub boot automatically recycle wall paper after each reboot after 15 minutes in the background day for me :)

Serg

@JacobVlijm @Rinzwind such a shame that I'm a slow answerer . . . But I did draft little something:askubuntu.com/a/884793/295286

Jacob Vlijm

9:26 PM

@Zanna you do know I love your edits, and they are good without exception. I would prefer a somewhat lower speed however on really old posts. Active posts are flushed away from the front page in no time, while they should be kind of priority imo.

WinEunuuchs2Unix

any wallpaper in ~/Pictures/Wallpaper/640x480* build list, find current name on list, change it to next one and run update-grub with sudo powers. Then maybe flash a message what's been done. sleeping cron reboot job I think because Startup Applications I'm not to sure about.

@JacobVlijm Haha Jacob think I went down that road too with Zanna.

Zacharee1

@NathanOsman do you know of something that's able to scan an entire file tree to find any files that have different contents?

Jacob Vlijm

@WinEunuuchs2Unix Ah, you did?

WinEunuuchs2Unix

@JacobVlijm Yes it was about three months ago when Zach was coming down hard on everyone to bring down queue review counts and Zanna was VTC'ing real old ones and our tally was greater than > 100 I asked her to slow down until we were < 100.

Zanna

@JacobVlijm yes indeed, I apologise, I am overdoing it and I will stop now

I'll continue what I'm working on more slowly later haha

Jacob Vlijm

9:31 PM

@Serg Could you post the basic code? I prefer not to add a ppa for each and every answer I try :)

WinEunuuchs2Unix

@Zanna hehe that's the team spirit :)

Seth

is this tag work?

Zanna

no it's the stupid broken links thing

I have been doing it nice and slow

Seth

oh. was there ever a resolution on that or are you just removing them all?

Zanna

but I just found like 8 posts by the same user that were exactly the same o.O

I have been removing them

Serg

9:33 PM

@JacobVlijm It's on GitHub. I prefer to avoid posting code that is over 200 lines long

Editing answers like that is PITA

Jacob Vlijm

@Zanna Thanks a lot :)

WinEunuuchs2Unix

By the time she is finished we'll rename this site "Ask Zannabuntu" :)

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Jacob Vlijm

Zannubtu

Zanna

@JacobVlijm thanks for stopping me, I had gone into a trance there

Serg

We need to have a SE site dedicated just to Zanna and her editing capabilities

Nathan Osman

9:34 PM

@Zacharee1 kdiff does that.

Jacob Vlijm

We should mess up a few posts every now and then and ping her to fix :)

WinEunuuchs2Unix

The site will contain one Q&A "if nothing is written nothing is wrong".

Nathan Osman

I've used it before to compare a directory of files.

Zacharee1

@NathanOsman is this a Windows program?

Serg

Example of a question from zanna.stackexchange.com : How many edits can @Zanna perform per hour

Zanna

9:34 PM

@WinEunuuchs2Unix lol

@Serg lol

Zacharee1

ey it is

Nathan Osman

I don't know if anyone remembers Ask Oli but I could totally do something like that.

Seth

I remember, although I think it happened before I was really active.

Nathan Osman

@Zacharee1 No idea... quite a few KDE apps are available for Windows.

Serg

@Zanna but seriously, tell me your secret ? How do you have so much energy ? I need that to survive college

WinEunuuchs2Unix

9:35 PM

Before my time... don't see Oli post much today but when he does it's usually "high impact" stuff.

Nathan Osman

@Serg "be awesome"

Lol, I don't know.

I'm curious myself.

Seth

@Serg she's vegetarian ;)

Zanna

haha @Serg I usually cite the vegan diet but I doubt you'll want to try that tactic

Nathan Osman

Do french fries count since potatoes are vegetables?

Zanna

haha but Seth took the words outta my keyboard!

Serg

9:37 PM

Actually . . . I'm willing to believe that does have an effect. When I was in China , I was eating far more veggies and visiting vegeterian cafeteria multiple times. Definitely feels good, which is why I'm trying to eat more salads recently

WinEunuuchs2Unix

french fries fried in animal fat or canola oil? In france are they called "french fries" or "chips" like in England?

Zanna

@NathanOsman those are totally fair game... although I'm not a fan, which makes me a freak in the UK, where chips (fries) are the staple food

Seth

@NathanOsman to me, it's less about not eating animal products and more about making healthy choices. So the basic answer to that would be "no" in my book.

Nathan Osman

:(

My philosophy: everything in moderation. Except bacon.

Seth

there are exceptions though. fry your own in a good oil. e.g. olive or coconut, just don't overdo it.

Nathan Osman

9:38 PM

(Sorry, I couldn't resist.)

Zacharee1

@NathanOsman seems to be working

Nathan Osman

\o/

Serg

Lunch time :p Pizza this time though

Zacharee1

kdiff not your philosophy :p

Zanna

I like sweet potato chips done in the oven :)

Nathan Osman

9:38 PM

Mmmm, yes.

Seth

In the interest of being fair and honest: I stopped following most of my own advice a long time ago :/

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Nathan Osman

Not sure whether to star that one or not...

Zanna

hahaha I wish I could deny the same

Seth

@Zanna Oh those are good. Baking is often a good alternative to frying.

WinEunuuchs2Unix

That is totally "Seth star-able" :)

Nathan Osman

9:39 PM

@Seth Yes.

Jacob Vlijm

@WinEunuuchs2Unix it's 3x4 now haha

Zanna

mmmm I wish I had some sweet potatoes right now

Seth

It's not that I don't want to follow my own advice (usually), but I'm poor and super busy to buying all organic or doing raw isn't always an option for me.

Zanna

I could make some roasted carrots with cumin and stuff

Nathan Osman

@Seth You should come up here some time to one of our farmer's markets.

WinEunuuchs2Unix

9:40 PM

@Zanna I'm off to the grocery store in a few minutes anyway.. I'll buy a sweet potato and ping you later for instructions :)

Seth

e.g. when my family was going through some real hard times some friends of ours offered us a TON of meat they got from their own friends that raised it themselves. We weren't in a position at the time to refuse, even if most of us aren't big on meat.

Jacob Vlijm

@Serg I'll test it tomorrow! I have a good relationship with the couch atm :)

Nathan Osman

Well, at least they raised it.

Zanna

yeah stuff is complicated :S

Nathan Osman

So you don't have all the junk they throw in processed food.

Seth

9:42 PM

@NathanOsman Not that I don't want to come up there sometime, but why for the farmers market? We have those down here :P

Nathan Osman

Oh.

Seth

@NathanOsman yeah it is excellent meat, as meat goes.

Nathan Osman

For some reason, I never think of Seattle as being all that agricultural.

Pardon my ignorance.

WinEunuuchs2Unix

Seriously... Seattle and Vancouver are like twin-cities in my mind.

Seth

@NathanOsman Seattle isn't, but the entire other half of Washington is pure agricultural :P

Nathan Osman

9:43 PM

Weeeeeeeell.

Yes and no.

Seth

@NathanOsman nothing to be pardoned. I know very little about BC so..

Serg

@JacobVlijm ok. feel free to test anytime.

Nathan Osman

I shouldn't say too much either. I was only a couple years old the last time I was in Seattle.

Serg

By the way, you guys are all invited to testing,too

Nathan Osman

Although I was old enough to remember the last time we went to Bellingham.

Seth

9:44 PM

Basically west of the cascades is very developed and has a lot of industry, east of the cascades is almost entirely agricultural and energy production (wind, hydro, a little solar).

Jacob Vlijm

@Serg eh, what the heck, I trust it works, here we go...

Nathan Osman

@Serg Scrolls up to see what we're testing...

Seth

Although there's still a fair share of farming on the west side.

Nathan Osman

We have a lot of farms south of where I live and as you travel east, there is a lot of farmland.

Seth

@Serg you know SE has a Denver office, you should visit sometime :D

@NathanOsman this may be super wrong, but doesn't BC border the major farming provinces on the east?

Nathan Osman

9:47 PM

Going east from BC, Alberta has a fairly significant amount of farmland. Saskatchewan is almost entirely farmland, Manitoba as well.

WinEunuuchs2Unix

BC and Washington State have a lot in common. About 20 years ago I heard the idea to me of a new nation BC, Washington and Oregon, and maybe some parts of "beside states" into a place called "Cascadia". I would so move to a new nation like that and already have Vancouver birth-rights: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cascadia_(independence_movement)

Seth

@WinEunuuchs2Unix I like that idea.

Nathan Osman

And heck, I was born there so I would be eligible for president :D

WinEunuuchs2Unix

Yes unlike the USA that controls so much of your life.

Seth

might as well invite Yukon and Alaska too.

WinEunuuchs2Unix

9:48 PM

Agreed :)

Nathan Osman

Yes, we need Alaska so we can cash in on the lucrative cruise industry :D

Seth

Alaska has a lot of oil reserves too iirc.

Nathan Osman

So many Alaskan cruises originate in Vancouver.

Seth

not that we'd need those.

Serg

@Seth yeah, maybe see shog , ask him out for a beer

Nathan Osman

9:49 PM

@Seth We can better protect them.

Seth

I dunno about BC, but Washington and Oregon are something like ~98% renewable energy.

@Serg yeah!

Nathan Osman

BC is very close as well.

We have a ton of hydroelectricity.

We would be in the high 90s one way or another.

WinEunuuchs2Unix

True that! The electricity company is even called "BC Hydro".

Nathan Osman

:D

WinEunuuchs2Unix

Just have to get rid of the NDP government and chop the sales taxes.

Nathan Osman

9:51 PM

We have a liberal government.

WinEunuuchs2Unix

Tax the large corporations raping the resources instead.

Nathan Osman

And the sales tax isn't going anywhere :(

WinEunuuchs2Unix

liberal = ndp to me anyway :p

Nathan Osman

Lol.

Zacharee1

@NathanOsman how do you use this thing? I want to overwrite the differences with what file B has

Serg

9:51 PM

@NathanOsman we are testing an app indicator which allows triggering commands when mouse is along screen edge askubuntu.com/q/884718/295286 done it in 7 hours so would be nice to.know if it works for others and.not.

WinEunuuchs2Unix

I thought you would back me up on "limited government" afterall you floated the idea 36 hours ago or so.

Nathan Osman

@Zacharee1 My experience is just with comparison, not doing anything with the files.

Serg

not just ne

Zacharee1

guh

Serg

damn bees, spooped me

Nathan Osman

9:52 PM

@WinEunuuchs2Unix Oh, I'll back you up on that.

@Zacharee1 Let me see...

WinEunuuchs2Unix

@Serg the idea of my system suspending when I accidently move the pointer to the lower right corner didn't appeal to me when I read that Q&A yesterday :p

Nathan Osman

Maybe I can figure it out.

Seth

Robert Irwin and Jimmy Cuddle a Sloth

►

Oh man. Steve Irwin's son on the tonight show.

Nathan Osman

@Zacharee1 I can click on an item under the "operation" column to select an action.

Zacharee1

so I want delete?

Nathan Osman

9:55 PM

What are you trying to do?

Zacharee1

well there are a few lines A has that B doesn't have

so I want to skip those merges

Nathan Osman

Then you want to keep A, I assume.

Zacharee1

but then B has some hex integers that have different values

so I want to copy those to A

Nathan Osman

You'll have to do it per-file then, I think.

Zacharee1

yeah

but I can't skip merges

Nathan Osman

9:56 PM

You can open up each file and then pick and choose, I assume.

Zacharee1

at least I don't know how

Nathan Osman

I don't either.

Zacharee1

that might have worked....

I think I'm just gonna copy the files that it finds

guh

why can't OEMs make this easy

WinEunuuchs2Unix

then everyone else would become an OEM too :)

time to buy zanna's sweet potato... bbl.

Jacob Vlijm

10:20 PM

@Serg looked what it did with dconf, looked it up in dconf editor. No options for custom commands with hotcorners.

Zanna

Haha enjoy

Going to sleep, just cut it up, rub the pieces with oil and salt, medium oven, 20 min, something like that

Later all :)

Serg

@JacobVlijm you mean the comment about CCSM ?

Zacharee1

can someone get me a monitor pls

Jacob Vlijm

@Serg yeah, I should have mentioned that.

Serg

Unity's hotcorners are very limited. CCSM has extra options but the default schemas are limited. I know that because I've done a couple scripts for that before

heart rate monitor , as requested

Zacharee1

10:26 PM

wat

sigh

my heart rate is more:

Serg

Well, you didn't specify what kind of monitor you want so . . . hue :D

Zacharee1

__________________________________________________

Serg

@Zacharee1 I can see a few spikes there if I zoom in

Zacharee1

---\/^-------\/^-------\/^-------\/^-------\/^-------\/^-------\/^-------\/^----

Serg

O.o

Zacharee1

10:28 PM

hue

Serg

euh

Zacharee1

hahooie

@Seth HUE

Jacob Vlijm

That is huege

Zacharee1

new color?

rip

tried to go to pcpartpicker.com

wasn't in autofill

just google searched pcp

LegionMammal978

Annoying how this site is small enough for questions to be just about completely ignored...

Zacharee1

10:35 PM

@LegionMammal978 you attracted an NAA

that's something

LegionMammal978

@Zacharee1 NAA?

Zacharee1

not an answer

do you have proprietary drivers installed for your graphics card

LegionMammal978

@Zacharee1 Yes, you can see them in the last two lines of the lspci output

Zacharee1

and you're sure that .so file doesn't exist

LegionMammal978

What .so file?

Zacharee1

10:38 PM

the lib6 one

.so.6 that is

LegionMammal978

The file exists, but putting it in LD_PRELOAD won't fix the (X?) problem

Zacharee1

well what the first answer suggests is that you basically delete that file

Serg

Interesting. Lubuntu doesn't have zenity preinstalled

Zacharee1

(except rename it so you don't lose it)

LegionMammal978

> The ~/.steam directory does not even contain a libstdc++.so.6 to remove:

Zacharee1

10:39 PM

yeah but it isn't just under ./steam

sometimes you have to dig a bit, since filenames might change

go into the steam folder you found with ls

or just search for the file

LegionMammal978

@Zacharee1 The steam in the ls is an executable

Zacharee1

oh hmm

LegionMammal978

~$ sudo find / -name 'libstdc++.so.6' 2>&-
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libstdc++.so.6
/usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libstdc++.so.6

None in any Steam-related directory

Zacharee1

you've rebooted right

LegionMammal978

lol, if I were willing to reboot, I'd have just booted into my Win10 box and used Steam there :P

But alas, I have a factorization job running

Zacharee1

10:44 PM

that might be the issue

did you see the other answer on that Q&A?

said rebooting fixes it

but you can also try this (replacing the version number with the one you have installed)

LD_LIBRARY_PATH="$LD_LIBRARY_PATH:/usr/lib32/nvidia-346/:/usr/lib/nvidia-346/" steam

but I think before anything else, you should reboot

look through here if it doesn't work askubuntu.com/questions/614422/…

LegionMammal978

@Zacharee1 :

~$ LD_LIBRARY_PATH="$LD_LIBRARY_PATH:/usr/lib32/nvidia-378/:/usr/lib/nvidia-378/" steam
ILocalize::AddFile() failed to load file "public/steambootstrapper_english.txt".
[2017-02-18 17:47:03] Startup - updater built Jun 16 2014 11:16:02
SteamUpdateUI: An X Error occurred
X Error of failed request:  BadValue (integer parameter out of range for operation)
^C

Zacharee1

replace the version number with the version you have installed

but I think rebooting is going to fix this

LegionMammal978

~$ sudo apt-get install libgl1-mesa-dri libgl1-mesa-dri:i386
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
libgl1-mesa-dri is already the newest version (12.0.6-0ubuntu0.16.04.1).
libgl1-mesa-dri:i386 is already the newest version (12.0.6-0ubuntu0.16.04.1).
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.

welp

And ~/.steam/root doesn't exist

~$ tree .steam/
.steam/
├── steam.pid
├── steam.pipe
└── ubuntu12_32
    └── steam

1 directory, 3 files

..and sure enough, rebooting made the updater run

@Zacharee1 Got Steam finally running! Who knew that turning it off and on again would do the trick :P

WinEunuuchs2Unix

11:01 PM

awww the old rebooting trick :)

When befuddled... REBOOT

Serg

i'm running low on energy

good thing there's 1 hour left and then i can go home

Also, discord's icon bothers me. It looks like there's always a new message there

WinEunuuchs2Unix

11:18 PM

@Zanna there is the 1 kg sweet potato ^^^ I bought and here is the recipe I plan to follow (don't know what "toss in olive oil" means though?) : minimalistbaker.com/baked-sweet-potato-chips

Nathan Osman

@Seth ever hear back from Jonathan Sampson?

Seth

@NathanOsman strangely, no.

Nathan Osman

Oh my.

My heart tried to kill me 2 days ago. Out of nowhere 180+ irregular BPM for hours. Ultrasound through throat (ouch)… https://twitter.com/i/web/status/830851823942656001

Tweeted by jonathansampson on February 12, 2017 at 6:51 PM

WinEunuuchs2Unix

^^^ That used to happen to me lots a few years ago... went away on its own.

i think it was because of too much construction work and over-drinking.

Seth

@NathanOsman oh my indeed!

How did I miss that.

I've suspected for a while now twitter hasn't been showing me all the tweets it ought to.

Nathan Osman

11:26 PM

Well that explains the delay.

Serg

This looks vaguely familiar O.o

Seth

@Serg maybe Nathan should make multiple of those ads with different quotes :D

@NathanOsman Indeed! Now I feel bad..

Serg

@Seth yeah, variety is always welcome

Nathan Osman

@Seth sounds like he's doing better now.

@Serg yes indeed.

Serg

What I've just realized randomly ( by looking at GLib documentation ) is that they don't have sleep function apparently, only usleep . . . in microseconds . . .

What's also interesting is that we have microseconds, miliseconds, nanoseconds - all SI prefixes, powers of 10. But after 60 seconds, we sort of use minutes , which is base 60

Seth

11:39 PM

because we're weird. And the Brits are weird. Because they invented it.

(I think?)

Serg

Not really, it was Greeks.

Sexagesimal

Sexagesimal (base 60) is a numeral system with sixty as its base. It originated with the ancient Sumerians in the 3rd millennium BC, was passed down to the ancient Babylonians, and is still used—in a modified form—for measuring time, angles, and geographic coordinates. The number 60, a superior highly composite number, has twelve factors, namely 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 10, 12, 15, 20, 30, and 60, of which 2, 3, and 5 are prime numbers. With so many factors, many fractions involving sexagesimal numbers are simplified. For example, one hour can be divided evenly into sections of 30 minutes, 20 minutes...

But Brits are descendants of Romans, who are also descendants of Greeks, so . . .still weird probably

Humans are weird creatures

Seth

With all due respect, you have not applied this line of thought elsewhere. You've answered non-Ubuntu-specific questions here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, and here, just for starters. — Eliah Kagan Jan 4 '13 at 2:57

oh man. Classic example of getting Eliah'd xD

WinEunuuchs2Unix

That Eliah is a hard worker... even if I know one link half the time I'm often too lazy to look it up and reference it.

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