[ Natty | Sentinel ] software-installation amule install on ubuntu 20.4 By: Fester Bestertester 5.0;

@Natty tp

OT Mint

[ Natty | Sentinel ] 20.04 Unable to update CLAMAV and CLAMTK By: nord5 4.0;

@Natty tp This is requesting information from the OP, and it is not giving even a partial solution.

[ Natty | Sentinel ] drivers Ubuntu 19.10 - Internal microphone chipmunk voice By: Steven Cohen 3.5;

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[ Natty | Sentinel ] drivers Inspiron 7590 - no signal to external display on linux (works on Windows 10) By: weR 4.0;

that didn't go well

It's still asking which of two stated methods is better. So I guess it makes sense people reviewed it as Leave Closed.

@Natty probably a dupe?

of this

no longer needed, wrong canned comment

OT MX Linux

OT Elementary OS

self-dupe

not off topic

OT 19.10

not off-topic - There's an argument for closing it as having been cross-posted here and on SO, but the post is far higher quality here than there.

(I don't mean due to different standards or scope. The post here has more information. But also, it has already already been received negatively there, whereas it has gotten a request for details here that was met with more information. It looks like the OP prefers to ask here. OTOH the advice commented on SO to use Shellcheck is good advice.)

not opinion-based, and the comment could be an answer

probably not a dupe, since no answer on the target actually solved it for the OP, but rather their solution is substantially adapted from one of them

Though I guess it might be okay to close and merge.

Maybe.

@EliahKagan I voted to leave open but it got closed

I also commented

hmm is this on topic? I feel I should ask on meta...

@Zanna The output of ffmpeg says Debian so I think the closure is actually reasonable (see @karel's comment). But I think I've seen that on Ubuntu systems. I've commented.

@Zanna Nothing wrong with asking on meta.

@EliahKagan thank you :)

@EliahKagan I have no idea why it would be off-topic though. It's a service that's officially provided by Canonical for use with Ubuntu, on Ubuntu, and which Ubuntu is designed to integrate with. I think that's covered under what most people would think of as "services provided by Ubuntu and Canonical."

Or do you mean it might be off-topic because it's asking about how to subscribe to the service rather than how to use it or what it does? We allow questions about how to download Ubuntu and how to buy installation media (though I don't know if there is any good way to do the latter anymore) so I am inclined to think that's just fine too.

I don't think you're in any way obligated to use a mod hammer to remove it from the queue though.

yes you are right. Just by trying to come up with a question about it I arrived at the conclusion that there is nothing wrong with it at all

dupe

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Pattern-matching website in body, potentially bad keyword in body (97): Correct installation for Android Studio on Windows 10 and Ubuntu Android config by Shawn Urquhart on askubuntu.com

unclear, no response from the OP

unclear and the opinion-based

unclear

deletable, reposted by the OP

deletable, reposted by the OP

[ Natty | Sentinel ] apt Unable to reinstall missing package after update to 20.04 By: Eloise 4.0;

@pomsky the output is not the same, and the new one is presumably the relevant one

I am not even sure how to merge the posts by editing :S

[ Natty | Sentinel ] drivers Ubuntu isn't using AMD or Nvidia drivers properly By: user3477652 3.5;

@Natty tp - author edited it later

[ Natty | Sentinel ] 20.04 Ubuntu log in customization By: HyperCreeck 3.5;

@Natty report askubuntu.com/a/1264971 (plagiarized from another answer)

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

[ Natty | Sentinel ] networking Temporary Failure in name resolution on WSL By: Tobias2070 4.5;

OT bug

^^^ By mistake I added the link of a comment.

[ Natty | Sentinel ] python How can I make perf script -g python work? By: Chirag Saraiya 4.0;

[ Natty | Sentinel ] command-line How Do I Add Multiarch-Support to Install Packet Tracer 7.2.2 on Ubuntu 20.04? By: Martin Braune 4.5;

@Natty fp

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[ Natty | Sentinel ] amdgpu Number of devices 0 By: Chris 3.5;

@Natty fp

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[ Natty | Sentinel ] command-line Execute a script on window's change By: Skypper 5.0;

@Natty Was that really reportable? Based on this chat message and the contrast it makes between the scopes of Natty and Guttenberg, plagiarized posts (that are answers), like other answers that are useless because they merely duplicate information already given in other answers, are not reportable to Natty and should receive fp feedback.

@Natty fp

@Natty tp

@Natty fp

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@Natty NAA but accepted. hmm

Should it be expanded?

Should the question be closed as a duplicate?

idk

I converted it to a comment

I don't think the question is a dupe of either of those

it is a cool question asking for something other than what the answer suggests

(unrelated) Based on bazaar.launchpad.net/~diesch/arronax/trunk/files, at least the first part of the edit summary at askubuntu.com/review/suggested-edits/1072465 seems correct. Does the post need disclosure per askubuntu.com/help/promotion?

If not, then why not? Seems only fair. Low rep users have been spam flagged into answer bandom for similar (I am not advocating the latter)

Should I custom flag the post or something?

idk, seems reasonable to just edit it to say "add my PPA" instead of "type" or something like that

seems I am grumpy and should go and sweep the floor instead :)

I guess that should be an Edit review on the current suggested edit? I'm not sure how this is best done. That doesn't mean you have to do it (it's not an emergency or anything) just that I might not do it right now.

I wasn't sure if the change is correct

Neither am I.

ah haha we might have to check later :)

I think this is the unusual situation that it is better for it to get an Edit review even if that review also removes the original change. The information in the suggested edit is saving the post from being deleted as spam later, or from being spam that is undetected. That's a huge benefit.

This is different from, say, a case where someone edits a post to remove dead links when they can simply be fixed by using an archive.org link, because those edits worsen a post and make it far less likely that it will be improved later (also, people can try pasting dead links into the Wayback Machine, so even dead links may have value if they're archived).

But this doesn't address the question of whether the change in the edit should be kept or not, nor of how the disclosure should be worded.

Also, if no changes to the body of the post are to be kept, then it is of course acceptable to reject the edit. But in my opinion it would be preferable to use Edit even then, in this particular case.

It's frustrating to me that my secret help center seems much clearer about what counts as spam than anything I can find in the help-for-everyone-center

I guess you could lean into the secrecy and post in the Stack Moderators Team to ask how best to communicate about it.

hahaha

good idea

[ Natty | Sentinel ] logitech I need help with my Logitech M510 mouse By: Dan F. 4.0;

[ Natty | Sentinel ] mount Hiding certain mount points from Caja file manager (MATE desktop) By: auressaion 5.5;

@Natty This is not self-contained. Should it be expanded by editing? Should it be a comment? I am disinclined to think it should be a comment because it is offering a different solution.

@Natty tp

[ Natty | Sentinel ] partitioning Resizing my ext4 / partition bet keeps reverting back By: J Das 4.0;

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@EliahKagan I think it can be expanded

I think that this post is OK as an answer, but too sleepy to be sure

It would also make sense as a comment, but I think it qualifies as an answer and deserves visibility

@Zanna I think it would be acceptable as a comment, but should really either be an answer or an edit. (I don't mean that the other answer should be edited to turn it into this, but if its author were amenable to it, then the additional material could be added.) Since it already exists as a separate answer, keeping it as one seems reasonable to me.

The only reason I haven't upvoted it is the same as the reason I haven't upvoted the older answers: one should not pipe find to grep (or to sed) in that manner.

Parsing ls

Well it's not quite as bad as that. But newlines break it, and also it's at least as complicated as the techniques that don't have that problem and whose correctness is more easily assessed.

It should get an answer about find's -regex and -iregex tests, and about -print0 and grep -Z / sed -z.

Or... is it a duplicate of something?

[ Natty | Sentinel ] kodi How to configure KODI to run in windowed mode from command line? By: Rev 4.5;

[ Natty | Sentinel ] drivers Wireless/audio not working on Dell Vostro 15 5590 with Ubuntu 18.04.3 LTS By: MichalPot 3.5;

@Natty tp

dupe, confirmed by OP in a comment

[ Natty | Sentinel ] command-line WPS Office 32 bit for Linux By: Нашёл у себя на диске 6.5;

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