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Android Dev

00:17

@NathanOsman right, but then why the heck does the preview support it?

TheWanderer

hmm this USB-C to USB-C cable is defective..

but on a more positive note, I can power my 2.5" HDD, my 1.8" mSATA SSD and my phone from the Thunderbolt port

IMO that's pretty amazing

Android Dev

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Wat

Uhm

what gets you 2 points?

could those be edits I made before 2k?

TheWanderer

accepts?

Android Dev

nah those aren't my Qs

@TheWanderer any suggestions for elegantly managing 26 textviews?

TheWanderer

00:34

don't use 26 TextViews?

Android Dev

I mean, I suppose I could add them all dynamically, but

TheWanderer

you can loop through all the views if they're in an adaptor

and use instanceof

Android Dev

Well basically I'm creating a summary screen

And I have 13 items

but for each entry

I have the title and then the value

which means I need 2 txtvs for each entry

because the title is left aligned

and the value is right aligned

hey wait a second

the way I designed this layout is dumb

TheWanderer

wait a second

use a TableLayout

Android Dev

@TheWanderer but can you dynamically hide a row in the tablelayout?

Honestly though I don't see how the table layout would really simplify anything

TheWanderer

00:52

I don't know what you're doing

Android Dev

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Android Dev

01:30

@NathanOsman hehe, on the subject of line endings, I didn't think this would work.. but it did! so I wrote an answer :D

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Ask Ubuntu Meta

04:07

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Q: About retracted flags and the comment persisting

Case in point: How do I convert my usb installation from legacy boot to uefi? By mistake I flagged as duplicate but later on noticed it was about Elementary OS. Retracted but the comment persists?

support flagging

Nathan Osman

04:37

Sorry, I was away. Out at a corn maze.

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Tooniis

07:12

can someone help me with this: askubuntu.com/questions/958468/…

?

Zanna

07:57

Sorry to be a PITA... I noticed that the author of this post posted this question (along with an almost identical question) and this question - I voted to close the first one against your AMD question @TheWanderer - was I right? Can the others be closed too?

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Eliah Kagan

10:51

@Zanna For that specific question, it seems they found the answer and posted it as a comment:

I found the solution. In the bios i disabled the integrated graphics and onboard sound card. That seemed to have fixed the issue. — Luke Watson Apr 21 at 11:50

So that should help in figuring out if it's a duplicate of anything, but either way, a CW answer could be posted for it. Is there any reason for me not to just do that there?

Zanna

11:36

@EliahKagan go for it. I missed that

Byte Commander

Has anyone ever seen Ybubtu?

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Q: How can I get my pointer to return on screen on 16.04.1 LTS & is there a reason it has ceased to function?

How can I restore Mouse control on my installed version of Ybubtu

Also TFW the question title is longer than the body... ಠ_ಠ

Benny

he try to say Ubuntu no Ybuntu

Y and U very closly :)

closely*

Eliah Kagan

12:06

@ByteCommander I think this could be its first appearance. "Ybubtu" has not yet been listed. :)

Benny

12:27

lol

Eliah Kagan

@Zanna Done. Also this question can be made a duplicate too.

Zanna

thanks :)

Thomas Ward

13:23

randomly appears and yells loudly

TheWanderer

no

Thomas Ward

you can't tell me what to do

:P

TheWanderer

I can

you don't have to listen

but I can

ravery

14:14

hey

Thomas Ward

beeps

hiya, @ravery

ravery

ok, I had a long convo in comments but the move to chat didn't comeup

do we need to be adressing each other or was it a bug

Thomas Ward

There could be any number of reasons why it didn't show up, but since moderators can always move discussions to chat, you can also ping one of us with a custom comment flag reason of "Please move this conversation to chat, so it doesn't clutter comment sections" or such

and we can go do it

@ravery Unsure, and not gonna test right now :p

ravery

got it :)

thans for the comment on adding pic to answer also. took me a few tries to remember the code :)

terdon

@ravery It comes up if you've been having a long conversation with the same user. If there were many users involved, it won't prompt you to move to chat.

Thomas Ward

14:19

^ that

Rinzwind

@terdon that's discrimination towards low amount of users!

:40166799 no. that is a comment to a moderator :=)

Thomas Ward

i'm sorry were you trying to ping me because it didn't work :)

Rinzwind

nope :=)

Ubuntu Questions on U&L

14:34

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Q: How to read blank sectors from erased dvd-rw disc?

If a dvd-rw disc has been erased, how to read it's blank sectors? dd if=/dev/sr0 bs=2048 | hexdump -C command doesn't work dd error message: # dd if=/dev/sr0 bs=2048 dd: error reading ‘/dev/sr0’: Input/output error 0+0 records in 0+0 records out 0 bytes (0 B) copied, 0,0156114 s, 0,0 kB/s

shell ubuntu dd dvd data-cd

Thomas Ward

waves at @JourneymanGeek and drags him into the void of /dev/null

Journeyman Geek

0o

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Eliah Kagan

17:42

Whoa, I just got 7 upvotes in a short time, on my 6 top answers (one is self-answered, and the seventh vote is on that question). They arrived in the order the answers are listed when shown by votes in my profile. This is almost certainly serial upvoting. I'm guessing the reversal script will undo them tonight--and the voter may just be unfamiliar with the rules about this--but in case it turns out to be worth looking into, I'm mentioning it. @ThomasWard

Thomas Ward

@EliahKagan thanks for the FYI

Eliah Kagan

No problem.

TheWanderer

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AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

@NathanOsman AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

Seth

17:57

I was gonna say. That could have been so awesome

TheWanderer

yeah

@Zanna's yellow!

terdon

@EliahKagan We can't really do anything though. Mods don't have access to voting records.

Hey @Seth, where do you guys play chess? You used to play with ByteCommander, if I remember correctly, right?

Seth

@terdon A few years back there used to be a bunch of us that played chess.. We played on lichess.org. I've played chess online in quite a few places and lichess blows them all out of the water. And it's OSS.

terdon

Oh? I've been playing on chess.com which is quite cool. I have the lichess app, but haven't really used it. I rediscovered chess this summer.

Seth

@terdon Cool! I find chess.com to be slow and clunky, but it does have the most players (although lichess has plenty and is growing). We used to hang out over here

We should play sometime :)

TheWanderer

18:10

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Seth

I'm very out of practice xD

terdon

@Seth How about now? :P

Thomas Ward

CHESS

i want to watch on lichess

terdon

I'm playing now. I admit that so far I like chess.com's interface better.

Rinzwind

@terdon got an ELO rating? >:)

terdon

18:24

No. And if I did, it would be around 1000 tops.

Rinzwind

hmm. In my prime I had 1800 :=D

good enough to win a couple of regional tournaments but that was it :P

terdon

Seriously? Nice!

Way out of my league then

Rinzwind

yeah got 5 throphies here but that was in the 80s

Seth

@terdon Don't have the time, sorry :(

Rinzwind

I won my 1st one where I had to take on the current champ in round 1. Ppl told me he was VERY slow and thought a lot so with white I made a defense rock solid and due to him thinking 5 minutes for every move after the 5th one he ran out of time fast. Then tried to force his way and lost _O-

terdon

18:29

@Seth No worries

@Rinzwind Heh. I always feel kinda strange if I win on time. Well, if I have a losing position and win on time, that is. I feel like I didn't really win. If I have a winning position or we're more or less equal, I can live with it :)

Rinzwind

cheesed my way out of that one :D
and due to the way that tournament worked I got 3 easy opponents after that and had to get 0.5 from the last 2 games to end up as the winner. Lost the 1st one of those but the other dude for the last game needed 0.5 too so that was an easy draw :D

That dude I won the 1st one against eliminated all the competition except for 1 draw. We ended with the same points but due to me winning against him I got #1 D:

now for a more important matter. what to order in for a late night dinner :=)

terdon

You call this late night? It's what, 8:30pm there?

That's not even dinner time here!

Rinzwind

dinner time is at 18:00 :=)

pizza \o.

terdon

@Rinzwind Really? Wow. That's right after lunch for me. What time do you go to bed if you have dinner at 18:00? 20:00?

"Normal" dinner time in Greece (as in the time people meet at restaurants etc) is 9-9:30.

Rinzwind

lunch is at 12:00

@terdon last 3 weeks? never :-X have not slept for more than 4 hours the past 3 weeks

terdon

18:42

ouch

Rinzwind

it is enough for me >:)

mosttimes I get a bit more between monday and tuesday. that gets me through the rest of the week >:)

Pizza, Fries, 5 small loempia's.
think that is enough? :-P

Rinzwind

19:04

Pizza arrived \o/

terdon

That was fast!

Eliah Kagan

@Zanna On a similar note, this question has upvoted answers, but neither of them is the solution the OP confirmed worked for them (nor would they have worked for the OP, though they may work for other people with problems that manifest the same way). So I posted a CW answer.

Thomas Ward

@Rinzwind loempia's?

Rinzwind

eggrolls :=)

terdon

Yeah, you know. Little people. Like singing and chocolate.

Rinzwind

19:16

Thai version

Thomas Ward

@Rinzwind ah

@terdon ಠ_ಠ

terdon

Willy Wonka 1971 all Oompa Loompa Songs

Thomas Ward

ಠ_ಠ

terdon

What, weren't you raised on a steady diet of Roald Dahl?

Thomas Ward

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y'know

i'm half tempted to change my name to that ^

just to see what would happen

Avery

19:20

don't think that chat'd allow that

Thomas Ward

no idea xD

except it's not chat that has to adapt, it's the sites

because chat inherits from sites.

Avery

that's what I meant

Thomas Ward

well

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apparently... it's permitted.

(that's one of mine for system testing is all)

Seth

just about any sort of unicode is allowed in usernames. The only thing that is specifically not allowed is overuse of zalgo

Thomas Ward

which I sometimes do once in a blue moon when i'm drunk or insane and want to zalgofy a post

and it's usually just a single line in here ;)

Kaz Wolfe

19:50

also we cant use diamonds in names

which would be hilarious

Thomas Ward

and confusing

and then i'd have fifty diamonds in my name so everywhere I go people get shredded by said diamonds. :P

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