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My question about 24.10 specific Easter Eggs in 24.04 should be on topic now
As I have said in comments on that post: There is no official list of Easter eggs, so this question is open-ended. If you want to install specific things from 24.10 in 24.04, then ask specific questio …
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Do we want heavily-downvoted questions to appear on the Meta AU homepage?
Some numbers:
There are (at present) 5,857 questions on Meta AU.
Of these, 68 questions have a score of -8 or less.
So, historically, ~1.16% of posts would have been affected by this change.
At the m …
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Tag for questions related to Ubuntu EOL
From the release-management tag excerpt (emphasis added):
Questions about the release procedures for a release, including policies, stable release updates, and distribution upgrades.
Use case 1 fall …
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Why is there a cap on the maximum number of questions per day for non newbie users?
In the general case, this is to prevent a user from posting a bunch of questions about some topic without doing enough research on it. You can see this happen even with experienced users. I know of a …
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Let's NOT participate in the one-rep voting experiment
I assumed this was opt in, so the default would be for us to not be in it, but if isn't, I'd agree, we shouldn't be in it.
Ask Ubuntu is a top-5 Stack Exchange site in terms of registered users (№ 3!) …
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Show ranking for year
Here you go: https://stackexchange.com/leagues/89/year/askubuntu/2018-01-01
The users page has a link to the reputation leagues at the bottom.
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Can we undo the libvirt -> virtualization tag synonym?
Currently, libvirt is a synonym of virtualization, and is mentioned in some ~800 questions (plus its client tool virsh is mentioned in some ~200 questions that don't mention libvirt). The synonym has …
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Ask Ubuntu is getting a logo update
It feels weird to see Ubuntu capitalised when:
The current AU logo doesn't have it capitalised:
The Ubuntu website doesn't have it capitalised, as can be seen on https://ubuntu.com:
or in the asse …
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Are Ubuntu Pro support questions off-topic?
Services provided by Ubuntu and Canonical
I think when this line was added, the thinking was that services like Launchpad, the Ubuntu package index, Ubuntu manpage repository, Ubuntu pastebin, etc. …
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Question about deprecated releases in a container
In this, I'd say we should treat them like VMs. We can help with getting the containers to start, and problems with interfacing the containers with host (like networking), but problems that are purely …
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Community bumping on AU
The Community user bumps old, not-well-answered questions regularly.
While that maybe a good fit on most SE sites, I'm not sure of its applicability to AU. We follow a strong and strict release policy …
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Should we be concerned with prolific downvoters?
I don't know about this specific user, but in general, yes:
We should be thankful for users who spend time downvoting.
If anything, we should have an alert for people who upvote far more often than th …
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Copy a screenshot of an area to clipboard
No, I don't want to copy the screenshot of an area to the clipboard. But these users do:
How to get back previous screenshot functionality on 22.04?
Screenshot selection in 22.04
"Copy a screenshot a …
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Is Ubuntu Core (20) on-topic on Ask Ubuntu?
The blog post announcing it says:
Canonical secures business critical devices for 10 years.
So ask Canonical for your ten years of support.
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Should we vote to reopen duplicates that have lots of votes and good answers?
Are they not duplicates just because they're upvoted? If there are good answers you want to see in the dupe target, then the posts should be merged. I don't see any reasoning whatsoever as to why thes …