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Goodbye Gunnar Hjalmarsson 1958.10.06 - 2023.12.20
I used to watch for LP bug reports related to languages with RTL scripts (Like: Arabic, Persian, Hebrew, Urdu ...), i18n & l10n in general. That time, the translations were incomplete for may componen …
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Duplicate question note
As regular way I used to, I got interested in a question then I looked for duplicates. 2 other similar questions without answers. I've an answer so to post it, I had checked reputations, last login, a …
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Does paste.ubuntu.com remove all old snippets?
I was reading this answer comments: ambiguous package name 'libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0' with more than one installed
There are few links to logs uploaded to paste.ubuntu.com back to June 2012. All of them we …
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What's your Ubuntu story?
Time Line
1996 PC (Windows95, just public access)
1998 TI Calc (Got interested in its Basic)
2003 VAX at university, PC (Windows XP, with full access)
2006 Debian at university
2007 Ubuntu till now. …
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Could we rename the "header" tag?
header idiom is used by many languages. But they don't mean the same thing , like the confusion between the web page header (visual) & the compiled languages headers.
In SO:
This tag is deprecate …
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Offensive comment as Post edit: A way to escape with Untracked crime
This is first time to see such case on the edits review queue. A 1'rep user wrote an offensive comment as an edit of a different user answer (as it could be a question).
Well, I could reject it for d …
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Accepted
Can someone explain to me how this qualifies as a good question?
I can't give a general answer but this how I look at it:
A) The question is poorly crafted
I don't think so because:
gtksourceview is mentioned (such advanced lib), so he did some research abo …
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Canonical questions
To my experience with Ask Ubuntu
Canonical Question is a normal question in Ask Ubuntu. They are not featured by the Stack Exchange QA system (with a label or flag) but by Users.
There is no static …
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Is there a style guide for these Ask Ubuntu lists?
Well, it is all there. See when Asking a Question:
Quick Help as text below tool bar
Link to https://askubuntu.com/editing-help (same link I give in comment)
Help Center, search for "format" or "Ma …
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Discussion of new tag dual-drive-dual-boot
I would add my voice for single tag dual-boot for these reasons:
Dual boot on separate drives is easier and has more forward solutions. The case is a subset of dual-boot category.
It is not wise goi …
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Why removing working answer that their owner haven't wrote an explanation/added any ref (jus...
This question:
Comand: "unity-control-center background" not working
got an answer, simply just this:
unity-control-center appearance
Well, it works perfectly. I've tested it and I voted it up …
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A possible way to increase the amount of information in questions about applications "crashi...
Yes, it is a good idea and it is well known to all advanced used.
New users will get to know about that when they start using terminal sooner or later.
However, Ubuntu lowered the bar for users to u …
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Let's try to explain complex topics to new users in a simple manner
Ups and Downs!
It depends on OP knowledge, experience and even the mood. That applies to the users trying to help too. We are all humans.
Two factors from user background I usually try to look for wh …
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Which is better: editing someone's old but outdated answer to keep it up to date or making a...
I agree with Mark Kirby's answer.
While we don't have much control on others content. There are few features that may help:
For the new answer: Start with Markdown header1 and may be quoted note for …
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PSA: Stack Exchange Inc. has announced a network-wide policy for AI content
Tactical Withdraw, may be?
Bear with me as this was my chain of thinking. Personally, I still believed AI generated contents is of unknown quality but expected to be low most of the time.
So what the …