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Random Person

05:19

@AskUbuntuMeta Hey @Zanna! I wanted to ask about this to you..

Did the "CM/Mod Quarterly Meetup" happen in the past?

Random Person

05:36

BTW...

@Zanna @jokerdino @ThomasWard Did you all receive the goodies from SE? meta.stackexchange.com/q/358195

Zanna

05:53

@RandomPerson no

Random Person

I think you can ask about that in the quarterly meetup.. haha..

Zanna

@RandomPerson yes but as a video chat. I think this is the first "asynchronous" meeting I have seen

Random Person

@Zanna so how is it gonna happen exactly?

jokerdino

@RandomPerson I got mine several years ago

Random Person

@jokerdino oh.. it would be nice if you can share a pic of it.

Zanna

05:56

@RandomPerson we post answers to the question on they posted, and they get back to us about the stuff raised, if possible

jokerdino

@RandomPerson I don't have it with me anymore

Zanna

@jokerdino back in the Jurassic period when they were still doing swag

jokerdino

@Zanna This is true.

Random Person

@Zanna so they reply using comments or will they reply by sending mail to the moderation team?

@jokerdino oh.. ok.

I guess "the Jurassic period" is a metaphor..

Zanna

@RandomPerson there will probably be comment conversations but I expect them to make (a) post(s) later to address things. They mentioned possibly starting a chat if needed. Not clear exactly at the moment

Random Person

06:00

hmm.. OK.

Zanna

@RandomPerson I think we could best describe this technique as hyperbole :)

Random Person

@Zanna So, do all mods attend the video meetings?

@Zanna ok.

Zanna

@RandomPerson no

Random Person

ok..

@Zanna So, at least one mod from each community attend the video meetings?

Zanna

There is no requirement to attend them. Inevitably many people will have neither time nor inclination to attend. This is something the CM team offers to help us.

@RandomPerson no. A few people attend them

Random Person

06:03

I don't think people would be comfortable with video meetings as many people don't use real names in SE and don't wanna show themselves.. Am I right?

@Zanna ok..

Zanna

@RandomPerson some people might feel like that. For me, the issue is more that a) the timing of the meeting will be inconvenient, b) video meetings are exhausting, and c) most of the issues people want to discuss do not interest me

the people hosting the meeting will be in a particular time zone. Others will be in different time zones and won't be able to attend

Random Person

@Zanna yeah.. having a meeting with 50+ people where each one wanna say something will be long..

@Zanna ok..

Which platform do they use? Zoom?

I think the time has come for me to do this..

Zanna

@RandomPerson yeah... such meetings don't work well. But far fewer people will talk in these meetings I think.

@RandomPerson they did use Zoom

@RandomPerson :)

Random Person

@Zanna oh.. ok. Have you attended any one of the video meetings?

@Zanna ok..

@jokerdino do you recall what all they gave you?

Can someone please share a good post in AU about verifying Ubuntu download (probably in Windows)?

Zanna

@RandomPerson once I attended one for a while. It was mainly Tim Post speaking. At least two mods were asking stuff.

Random Person

06:13

oh.. that would have been couple of years ago I guess..

Zanna

I only became a mod in June 2020

jokerdino

@RandomPerson I got a tee, a cap and some stickers.

and some business cards

Random Person

06:38

@Zanna yeah.. I keep forgetting things. I feel like you are a mod since many years.. I joined the site after you became a mod..

@jokerdino oh.. ok. AU stickers or SE stickers?

@jokerdino like this meta.askubuntu.com/q/1725?

jokerdino

@RandomPerson yes I got Ask Ubuntu biz cards and SE stickers

Random Person

cool!

so you got them in 2013?

Random Person

07:01

@RandomPerson verified the ISO using Linux shell in Windows..

VirtualBox has a bug now 🤦🏽‍♂️🤦🏽‍♂️🤦🏽‍♂️ forums.virtualbox.org/viewtopic.php?t=104175

downgrading to VirtualBox 6.1.26 solved the issue..

EnthusiastiC

08:03

what does ${PATH} represent in the file .bashrc?

I'm confused because PATH is already set by PATH= assignment

Zanna

@EnthusiastiC my .bashrc doesn't have any reference to PATH. Have you modified it?

EnthusiastiC

I really don't know. It is located at the end of the file

hey, maybe After installing latexworkshop package visual studio code altered it automatically, (I'm not an expert)

This is the line I found at the end of the file .bashrc
export PATH="/usr/local/texlive/2021/bin/x86_64-linux:/home/myusername/.local/bin:${PATH}"

Zanna

08:31

that line prepends two directories to the existing PATH

(((but there is no need to export PATH)))

since it mentions "texlive" I guess the LaTeX package you mentioned did indeed make the edit

Algnis

08:50

@RandomPerson

Zanna

09:07

@Algnis I suggest you let people know what you want when you ping them. That way they can answer when they return. If you just put a ping with nothing, the conversation could go on forever with nothing being said

people are not always available to chat. Life is full of other stuff :)

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BeastOfCaerbannog

10:55

@RandomPerson Modern ISOs (20.04 and later) automatically check the integrity of the image during boot, so it's not necessary to do that manually anymore. See this related question and KGIII's answer in particular.

7 hours later…

Random Person

17:30

@Algnis Hello. What do you wanna say to me?

@Zanna "the conversation could go on forever with nothing being said" haha.. Has there been any such precedent in the past in AUGR?

@Zanna yeah :(