Raiders of the Lost Downboat

The comment also makes an ambiguous claim about a site policy and gives a reason for the policy that's somewhere on the continuum between being just a guess and being completely made up.

Like, most external sites are searchable. We still consider answers that consist of just links to external sites to be NAA.

Zanna

Yeah

Eliah Kagan

How would this help?

Zanna

3:34 AM

I can't imagine that it could:/

Eliah Kagan

TIL moderators can feature messages in any chat room, even if not listed as one of the room's owners.

(As when Byte Commander helpfully refeatured the links message earlier today.)

It makes sense, I just hadn't realized it.

Natty

4:21 AM

[ Natty | Sentinel ] rsync Rsync - GVFS - Questions By: qwr 4.5;

karel

4:56 AM

@Natty report askubuntu.com/a/1185810

Natty

[ Natty | Sentinel ] Link to Post Low Length; Low Rep; 2.0;

Eliah Kagan

6:41 AM

@Natty report askubuntu.com/a/1185808/22949

Natty

@EliahKagan Post already reported

Eliah Kagan

Is this question a dupe of something?

karel

@EliahKagan downvoted and VTD

Eliah Kagan

unclear

dupe

The comments on this question are not very useful. What specific information should we request? Alternatively, is the a general question that it can reasonably be duped to?

self-dupe

still unclear

dupe or likely off-topic

I'm inclined to think we should leave this question open, in that there are just a few major ways to do this, and all can be summarized briefly in a way that is useful and informative. (The most powerful way hasn't had an answer about it yet.) However, if it is to be closed, I suggest closing it as too broad, since it very well may qualify for that.

not unclear

@Natty report askubuntu.com/a/1134138/22949

Natty

7:10 AM

[ Natty | Sentinel ] Link to Post Contains ?; Low Length; Low Rep; 2.5;

Eliah Kagan

not unclear

This answer, except the last line, appears copied from the previously posted currently top-voted answer, without attribution. I don't think that answer should be deleted, but I do think it should be edited to give attribution. I'm not sure the best way, though -- should it blockquote most of the answer? Summarize the parts that are the same?

(Anyone who has a good idea of how to edit it should feel free to go ahead and do so, I think.)

dupe

not POB

dupe

Zanna

7:46 AM

@EliahKagan I'm guilty of initiating the reopening of that question that happened yesterday so I am glad it got left open through the close review!

Also guilty of initially helping to close it (I now think) wrongly

I doubt I'll be able to find all the questions I've wrongly voted to close :(

Zanna

9:12 AM

@EliahKagan I flagged the comments on the question since if OP had not said how they did the installation we'd probably be asking them for that information:/

Eliah Kagan

I've flagged all three as no longer needed.

Zanna

The OP's comments on the answer indicate further progress but I'm not sure how to integrate it into the question

There are surely some questions about similar installation issues on Asus ROG but idk exactly what they need now, maybe just this one

Natty

9:49 AM

[ Natty | Sentinel ] 18.04 Blueman Protocol not available By: Yun Caraho 3.5;

Eliah Kagan

10:26 AM

no improvement whatsoever, the command shown in that answer still works fine.

Eliah Kagan

10:40 AM

~~unclear (even when translated), probably VLQ~~ closed

It's likely off-topic as well, though I can't be sure because there's hardly any information in the question.

karel

dupe

Natty

[ Natty | Sentinel ] grub2 Ubuntu 19.10 Grub options not shown By: Quantum 502 5.5;

Eliah Kagan

11:00 AM

@Natty tp

dupe

SmokeDetector

1:24 PM

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Blacklisted website in body, potentially bad keyword in body (100): Girl who wanna sex by Kattie69 on askubuntu.com

Natty

[ Natty | Sentinel ] command-line How to change desktop background on Mate with a command? By: Bernard 3.5;

Natty

2:08 PM

[ Natty | Sentinel ] 16.04 How to start Ubuntu in Console mode By: Sultan brunei darussalam 4.5;

Natty

2:26 PM

[ Natty | Sentinel ] grubrescue Getting grub rescue error By: aklimatize 5.0;

karel

2:36 PM

@Natty tp

karel

3:16 PM

OT C++ programming homework exercise

Kulfy

@Natty ne

Kulfy

3:58 PM

Nevermind. Only 1 was remaining :)

karel

4:33 PM

OT Mint

pomsky

5:19 PM

unclear, looks abandoned

^most probably would be a no-repro (see the first comment below the question)

unclear, no response from OP

POB, or is there a generic dupe for this one?

Is this one clear (i.e. answerable as it currently stands)?

Zanna

@pomsky not sure if there's a dupe but I'd prefer not to close it

@pomsky I don't think so... I voted to close

also not sure what the formatting was supposed to look like

Kulfy

5:48 PM

too broad?

Zanna

@Kulfy why would it be?

Kulfy

I believe reinstallation is the only solution and replicating the permissions of files and folders in /usr is too broad.

Zanna

I don't think difficult to fix=too broad

Natty

6:51 PM

[ Natty | Sentinel ] software-installation How to install zotero in ubuntu? By: user1012196 3.5;

Eliah Kagan

@pomsky I don't think that's POB, but I do think it's unclear. I think if the OP gives more details about the features they need, then it will be reopenable. I've commented.

@Natty ne

@Natty tp

dupe

@Natty tp

@Zanna The whole body was text from a terminal. I've applied code formatting to it.

@Natty tp

@Natty fp

@Natty tp

^^ Though that could be edited into an answer that talks about Wine.

@Natty tp

@Natty fp

This question could use an answer. Really I should write it, but I'd have to look for references to support (and lead to further reading about) what I'm saying about the particular errors I think indicated it was a hardware problem. If someone else were to post an answer before I get to it, that would be great for me, because I don't know when I'll get to it.

The sudo/$HOME Q&A is more of a priority for me; I had meant to have that done last month. But if it stays unanswered for several days and someone feels like pinging to remind me that I should answer it, I'll try and get around to it.

I think this question is too broad or POB. Consider the current answer, which is an attempt to answer the question that was asked and is probably not deletable, but that doesn't really give any specific information.

SmokeDetector

7:20 PM

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Few unique characters in body (94): LanobenimSimaybenimkarımlan!Kodumunoğlu by mRyellow on askubuntu.com

Eliah Kagan

@SmokeDetector The answer, too.

seems dupe

seems unclear

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Manually reported answer (94): LanobenimSimaybenimkarımlan!Kodumunoğlu by mRyellow on askubuntu.com

Eliah Kagan

@Kulfy ^^ Thanks.

Kulfy

NP :)

Eliah Kagan

dupe

Do we have something for this? I'd rather close it as a duplicate of something that gives information along the lines of the suggestions in the comments, than as unclear.

(Or at least propose a duplicate the OP and others can use, even if "unclear" is still the displayed close reason.)

I guess more information should be requested here.

I've suggested it may be a duplicate of the canonical "black screen" question as that seems to be what the OP described in a comment.

seems dupe (see second comment)

currently unclear

Natty

7:51 PM

[ Natty | Sentinel ] apt How can I update youtube-dl? By: Jimbo Jones 4.5;

Zanna

@EliahKagan thanks!

Eliah Kagan

@Natty Can that be edited into shape? Installing pip does not by itself install youtube-dl, but it does make it possible to then install youtube-dl with pip.

Natty

8:11 PM

[ Natty | Sentinel ] versions Trying to understand Ubuntu release cycles By: linuxwyvern 4.0;

Eliah Kagan

@Natty fp

Natty

8:40 PM

[ Natty | Sentinel ] bash Permission to my ~/.bashrc denied By: Albert Català 6.5;

Eliah Kagan

@Natty tp

no longer needed

Natty

9:12 PM

[ Natty | Sentinel ] wireless Ubuntu 19.10 keeps asking for password in some random wifi networks By: Sofy 5.5;

Natty

9:25 PM

[ Natty | Sentinel ] upgrade ubuntu stuck on boot in after upgrade to 19.10 from 19.04 in vmware [end kernel panic not syncing:VFS:unable to mount root fs on block (0,0)] By: mike808 4.5;

[ Natty | Sentinel ] 18.04 cloud-init smg in login screen By: Dim 4.5;

Byte Commander

9:41 PM

> Etherpad.net will be shut down on 31 Dec. 2019.
Please do not create any new pads and save your existing documents locally.
Thank you for your understanding.

@Zanna ^

just got this notification on the pad you created for that single character link query

Natty

[ Natty | Sentinel ] pulseaudio How to disable pulseaudio automatic device switch? By: Petter Sundlöf 3.5;

Natty

10:34 PM

[ Natty | Sentinel ] 18.04 How do I fix Fcitx from freezing my keyboard and mouse click? By: user1012228 3.5;

Natty

11:04 PM

[ Natty | Sentinel ] multiple-monitors ubuntu 19.04 not detecting external monitors By: Slimane Oulad-Naoui 3.5;

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