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grooveplex

8:00 AM

/me shrugs

Serg

posted answer, check it out

Zanna

link please

CodeX

askubuntu.com/questions/814051/…

Zanna

oh I still had the tab open...

nice

:)

grooveplex

AFAIK mythbuntu is of-topic askubuntu.com/q/814101/530811

Serg

8:04 AM

Hmm, somebody got interested in my script for disabling super key in full screen. I hope I get 2 more upgoats, and then that's a "Nice Asnwer" badge \ o/

Zanna

it's an official flavour @grooveplex afaik

grooveplex

nvm

Zanna

@Serg just link it!

grooveplex

@Zanna True

I had to check

Serg

@Zanna recently it's been considered somewhat of a bad practice . . . I avoid posting my answes in chat too much :/

Zanna

8:06 AM

and since everyone was away typing furiously, any help with this? I don't wanna tell them to just ignore it because I don't use Android Studio askubuntu.com/questions/814056/… (the problem drifted... or the OP asked an XY problem question)

@Serg If you just oneboxed all your answers without context, that might be a bit annoying... but really your answers are awesome and I wanna see them... does anyone here object????

Serg

Eh, sure . . . askubuntu.com/a/805833/295286 if you-know-who decides to nuke rep again, why not . . . i'm out of job , out of school . . .if i become out of rep, i can take it . . .

Zanna

I kinda think this is inaccurate or misleading... actually blacklist has a specific meaning in Linux systems, as in blacklisting kernel modules in /etc/modprobe.d with .conf files askubuntu.com/review/suggested-edits/606128 advice?

Serg

@Zanna that user asked about bit version of the OS? uname command

Zanna

oh I already upvoted that answer :)

indeed... there are many ways of finding that out

Serg

$ dpkg --print-architecture
amd64

That too

Zanna

8:10 AM

that's easy peasy.... but if you look at the comments... now they are asking about a warning they are getting because Android Studio doesn't find Oracle JRE/JDK

which is far from the original problem

dpkg --print-architecture is nice and clear :)

ƎpᴉʇʎXD

I'm lonely

Zanna

but @ƎpᴉʇʎXD they are all here

ƎpᴉʇʎXD

who's all here?

Serg

Us . . . the other users . . . aka your virtual friends

Anwar

@Zanna only when it stop responding.

@ƎpᴉʇʎXD that's a good thing :)

Serg

8:13 AM

@Rinzwind 2 hours till you get half the bounty, because i don't think OP will award it on time

Zanna

anyway they got more than enough help with the problem they asked about imo, but it's turning into a "please give me step by step solution to carry out long procedure that I do not understand at all and never mentioned in my original post"

where's this bounty eh?

CodeX

I guess we all are somewhat lonely

Anwar

I got one today! :D

Zanna

@Anwar congratulations ^_^

Serg

@Zanna just politely tell them that it goes beyond what they originally asked. Our site does 1 question per post , and that's it

Zanna

8:15 AM

@Serg thank you :) I wanted to do that, but I get sucked in sometimes

Serg

@Zanna this is the bounty question askubuntu.com/q/809925/295286 Basically OP wants what cannot be done

Anwar

I like those answers that say 'it cannot be done'

ƎpᴉʇʎXD

.

Anwar

lunch time. bbl

Serg

Some OPs can be a bit pushy and absolutely convinced that normal ubuntu behavior is a bug

Zanna

8:18 AM

oh yeah I remember that one... love both answers

Anwar

i think it's been asked too many times. need a better dup target askubuntu.com/questions/811636/…

Zanna

Does someone with >20k want to correct my tag wiki edit... the short description needs a capital F for "file" (there may be more wrong with it, but that's what's glaring at me) I'm not going to re-suggest for that! askubuntu.com/tags/initramfs/info

Serg

editing

done

ƎpᴉʇʎXD

I disassembled a MacBook today

So fun

and destroyed it

except for the hard drive of course :)

Serg

tearing down PCs can be fun

ƎpᴉʇʎXD

8:33 AM

I don't know what to do now

Rinzwind

@Serg where? :X

ƎpᴉʇʎXD

YAWNS LOUDLY

Serg

@Rinzwind chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/31780734#31780734

Rinzwind

hmm

I dont want it :=D

eh

Serg

welp , bounty never hurts

Rinzwind

8:39 AM

this user is noob of the day by his OWN demand

-1

Q: The examples on this page all use "USR1" is that a euphemism for my own user name?

I'm a nube and copy & paste of any of this code work not.

bash dd

Zanna

@Serg thanks!

haha no link to the page with the mysterious code even

ah that's much better @Serg for some reason I didn't think backticks would work so I didn't want to mess it up... silly me

grooveplex

@Zacharee1 Ubunube askubuntu.com/q/814088/530811

ƎpᴉʇʎXD

Obuntu

Rinzwind

@Serg Honor above bounties :=)

ƎpᴉʇʎXD

YAWN

code

Rinzwind

8:48 AM

Canonical has teamed up with embedded solutions giant Advantech to certify the company’s Internet of Things (IoT) gateways for Ubuntu Core.

The ‘strategic partnership’ means users of Advantech’s Intel x86-based gateways will have a certified and fully supported Ubuntu image, ready for production use.

The deal also nets users access to a number of services to fully manage their device’s security and software.

Oft-neglected in talk of smart refrigerators and network-controlled lightbulbs, Gateways are intrinsic to the ‘Internet of Things’. They act as the “middleman” in the Internet-of-Thi…

omgubuntu.co.uk/2016/08/canonical-advantech-iot-partnership

neat <3

Zanna

good news!

ƎpᴉʇʎXD

9:19 AM

zZZZ.

user136984

9:30 AM

Here is an LOA which I can't flag due to the vote count.

user136984

That is actually a really annoying feature, I think they should at least allow higher rep users to flag things with vote counts in the positive.

user136984

Because idiots upvote the bloody stuff!

Serg

Downgoated and flagged for mod attention

user136984

Same here.

user136984

But why do people upvote these things? And if we know that some idiots do, then why do we prevent users from flagging these posts? I mean, I think at least users with a certain amount of rep should be able to do it... But so far such proposals have been rejected.

Serg

9:35 AM

@ParanoidPanda that post is old, probably upvoted by low-rep users who are not familiar with how this site works

user136984

I've even seen accepted answers which are LOA for god sake.

user136984

@Serg: Yes, but then surely we should allow higher rep users who know what they are doing to flag the darn things.

Serg

This probably would require network-wide feature request, and as we know - those don't always go through

edwinksl

@ParanoidPanda why can't you flag? i flagged it as NAA

Serg

@edwinksl i flagged it for mod attention, because author tries to answer, but it's link only answer and old, so commenting wont work, so we may need mod to nuke it from the orbit

edwinksl

9:43 AM

LOA isn't an answer though, so flag it as NAA?

Serg

@edwinksl well , low quality answer usually means that it tries to answer OP's question , but only provides general solution, not exact steps and link. At least that's how i view it

user136984

@edwinksl: There was a discussion on this a few days ago... Mods don't accept flags unless they are of the correct type and the majority of them seem to think that LOA = VLQ, so that's what I'm sticking with...

edwinksl

the "answer" is absolutely useless if i don't click on the link

a NAA in my book

OP didn't even bother summarizing something

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GOODNIGHT

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