I see karel edited it in

Sorry, I did go to sleep after my last message

That script could benefit from some \

line breaks

There must be a better way to sed that, if we really have to parse it

I don't like to see very convoluted commands like that because the exact output from APT or whatever changes over time I think, then the answer doesn't work, and if you know how to to text processing you can start chopping off pipes until it starts to make sense and find the mistake, but a beginner will be stuck

Isn't this meta post a dupe?

Nobody seems to think so

can we close that? (hardware issue apparently, but pretty vague conclusion)

That not-very-useful script to reverse excessive package removal got posted again

Custom flag that as a repost, mods will delete it.

I already edited the original post (maybe excessively) and it's still quite bad imho

don't duplicate posts get auto-flagged?

I think that flag might get declined

Nopes, if they're not exactly identical at the time of post creation, they don't get autoflagged.

And also why do they decline those flags? It's not upto the users to guess if it's auto flagged or not. Grrr.

we don't mind if the same answer gets posted to multiple questions as long as it's a valid answer to both of them and the questions aren't really duplicates

On SO, I've found only one case till now where the same answer was valid on two posts whilst the questions were not dupes.

(out of some 5k or so such flags which I think I have handled)

yeah it's quite rare. I am wondering if that question is a duplicate

of that one

I think it is

so I am just going to click this delete button I have here in the queue

btw, this was one real good edit askubuntu.com/posts/950424/revisions

thanks :) :) it still doesn't make much sense imho

I don't know the tech part, just the moderation part. :)

thank you for your support. It makes a big difference

the post was deleted by 3 votes

Good, now the OP can't undelete it. ;)

here's one of those "useful" "me-too" posts - the question seems to have another one that's already been upvoted

Looks delete-worthy to me, but hey I'm the "moar deletion" guy :D

yeah, me too

I wrote a huge meta answer about how we should delete those

I don't think that one really adds anything new

what's with the dupe closure?

what am I missing? that looks like.... not a dupe at all

They reopened it again.

oh yeah sorry

oh an answer I almost deleted because someone else posted a more succinct command just got accepted 3 days later

I'm glad I didn't delete it! looks like the more succinct version assumed too much about the input

I don't know what to do with this either

I don't think people should be downloading random stuff like that... risky

@Zanna voted to close as dupe of canonical post by David Foerster on checking storage medium integrity

Does anyone else here have intermittent problems logging in on SEDE?

sometimes I get redirected to the front page when I should be entering my credentials. Sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't. With various devices (but probably firefox every time). Maybe there's some slightly different thing I'm doing when it works but haven't figured it out yet

Query returns 3857

the low was 3828. Why are people writing underwhelming underappreciated/NaA answers to their own questions faster than we can upvote/flag/close them?

Still, it's an improvement on 3872, last week's count :)

does that make sense? I don't seem to have such a module on my system...

woah I am slightly suspecting some sockyness

that's not a duplicate of either of those imho home directory empty? How did that happen?

I VTC as unclear but it looks like I agreed with the dupe, even though I wasn't the only one who voted unclear

is that really a useful answer to this question?

I think this is unclear without hardware info. It's not useful to know which version worked for them in that case IMHO

@Zanna OP did mention GT 635m

that may be enough hardware info for someone who owns the same GPU

oh is that the card?

yeah

oh hmm

I guess I should try to fix it later instead then

probably we can just dupe it to how do I install the nvidia drivers

i am tempted to CV this as unclear askubuntu.com/questions/815874/…

voted

;)

I edited the nvidia post

nice :P

thanks for reading it properly... do you want to vote dupe or should I just upvote the answer?

do you have a link to the dupe target you have in mind?

i think we can upvote OP's answer since it appears that only one particular driver version works for his card

OK done :)

same, upvoted

oops unintentional use of hammer O.O

oopsy

post totally inappropriately tagged with command-line haha

uh... is this a joke?

not sure lol

I figured out what the problem with the script was, but someone beat me to it by a long way haha

The one where what was intended as the closing " was escaped by a \?