Ask Ubuntu General Room

Hmmm.... well as usual you have made excellent points. @Zanna and I can get things moving along here a bit more, I tend to have free time these days and an interest in bringing chat back to life.

@JourneymanGeek Of course easier accessibility from the main page would make things easier but that is something not in our control.

Journeyman Geek

5:39 AM

@andrew.46 well no

and there's quite a few things where the (vocal part of the) core community and what the company wants to do diverge

Zanna

6:07 AM

@andrew.46 such an Aussie phrase :D

andrew.46

@Zanna Strewth it looks daggy, mate :)

Journeyman Geek

@andrew.46 Good mods is part of it, but a significant part is having the community flow through

a lot of the ex SE communities wandered off/started off site chats, for example

and where they stick together (like the alternative Super User/Root Access) chat, they're active

andrew.46

@JourneymanGeek What do you mean by off site chats?

Journeyman Geek

@andrew.46 literally the whole community on chat moving off to slack, discord or matrix for some reason or another

either cause of drama here, unhappiness with how things are managed and so on

andrew.46

OIC.

I have seen some tension here of course...

Journeyman Geek

6:20 AM

yup

andrew.46

@Zanna If you ever look up 'daggy' you will see it is originally a slightly unpleasant term relating to sheep :(

Journeyman Geek

Occationally involves staff too, which is unfun

On the other hand, you're here so at the very least you know what's happening and over time, have a handle on it cause people trust you

andrew.46

@JourneymanGeek Reminds me of my work as a Clinical Nurse Educator in Intensive Care where the same principles applied to the people I was training to become good ICU nurses :)

Zanna

6:49 AM

@andrew.46 etymonline does not even list it

the nearest thing is "dagga"

is this a dagga I see before me?

@JourneymanGeek indeed, the value of just being present is not to be underestimated!

Journeyman Geek

@Zanna Depends on whether you stabbed someone, or if the dagger is happy.

andrew.46

@Zanna Sheep are prone to get dried poo in the wool around their bottoms, these encrusted combinations of wool and poo are known as dags. The use of the term in modern terms is actually quite affectionate, believe it or not :)

Dag (slang)

Dag is an Australian and New Zealand slang term, also daggy (adjective). In Australia, it is often used as an affectionate insult for someone who is, or is perceived to be, unfashionable, lacking self-consciousness about their appearance and/or with poor social skills yet affable and amusing. It is also used to describe an amusing, quirky and likeable person (as in, "He's a bit of a dag") and is non-pejorative. The term was more widely used in the 1970s due to the popular New Zealand comedy of Fred Dagg (John Clarke). The term may be simply affectionate, such as when it was used to describe the...

Perhaps we are moving too far from Ubuntu now :)

Well, I guess it is just me :)

andrew.46

7:11 AM

And thank you for your words here @JourneymanGeek! Time for me to log off for the night...

6 hours later…

Zanna

1:21 PM

@andrew.46 lol "you crusty woolly old poo"

@andrew.46 this room is not known for its adherence to its description XD

3 hours later…

nobody

4:20 PM

man I need sunshine.

Zanna

if only I could pack some for you...

nobody

That would be nice. : D

NotTheDr01ds

4:55 PM

@Rinzwind Cataracts all cleared up? Assuming they did some other vision adjustment while they were at it?

@JourneymanGeek Mmm. Hamburger ... Hungry now.

@Rinzwind Also guessing they only did one eye - Was that the first or the second?

Rinzwind

5:35 PM

@NotTheDr01ds left was 3-1 but it is my bad eye (went from 9 to 20%) right eye has improved
a lot. Not sure how much but lights with a 2 cm corona are now lights again. Onlu issue
I can not read text on a phone w/o a loupe so need new glasses for that. Seem fpr websites/

1 hour later…

Artur Meinild

6:56 PM

I've made a new Q&A, trying to clear up some confusion about ESM Apps, Universe and Ubuntu Pro..

Q: Whats is ESM Apps, and how does it relate to Ubuntu Pro?

Lately, there has been some questions mentioning ESM Apps, that seem to have caused some confusion among myself and others (one example). It seems there is a relation between ESM Apps, the Universe repository, and an Ubuntu Pro subscription. But what exactly is ESM Apps, and how are the above rel...