| grantbow | Less than seven hours left. #freenode-newyears http://www.timeanddate.com/counters/multicountdown.html | 01:16 |
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| darthrobot | Title: [Year 2013 Countdown Around The World - Static] | 01:16 |
| === erichammond1 is now known as erichammond | ||
| grantbow | Am I alone in still feeling concerned about the potentially misunderstood Amazon search feature in 12.10+ | 20:30 |
| grantbow | I noticed this trick from the EFF article no longer works in 13.04 alpha | 20:30 |
| grantbow | sudo apt-get remove unity-lens-shopping | 20:30 |
| geofft | Hrm, LP #1054746 implies you can do System Settings | Privacy and uncheck "Include online search results" | 20:34 |
| grantbow | probably can, but the package trick didn't work when I tried it last. | 20:36 |
| geofft | https://launchpadlibrarian.net/117532396/privacy_dash.png | 20:36 |
| darthrobot | Content type: [image/png] Size: [28855] | 20:36 |
| geofft | yeah, the idea was that they specifically want a better UI for this than uninstalling | 20:36 |
| geofft | In part because that's obscure and not discoverable | 20:36 |
| MarkDude | Advice on a Linux happy laptop? | 20:36 |
| * MarkDude is getting one for his Bday | 20:36 | |
| geofft | And, it looks like, in part because it might not just be this one lens | 20:37 |
| MarkDude | Pondering Lenovo | 20:37 |
| * MarkDude gets nervous nowadays hearing word *lens* | 20:38 | |
| MarkDude | :D | 20:38 |
| grantbow | that UI doesn't address all the concerns outlined here. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2012/10/privacy-ubuntu-1210-amazon-ads-and-data-leaks | 20:39 |
| darthrobot | Title: [Privacy in Ubuntu 12.10: Amazon Ads and Data Leaks | Electronic Frontier Foundation] | 20:39 |
| MarkDude | uh bad timing I guess | 20:44 |
| * MarkDude will ask later | 20:44 | |
| geofft | MarkDude: isn't approximately every laptop Linux happy these days? :) | 20:49 |
| geofft | Lenovos are great. what in particular are you looking at / what do you want? | 20:49 |
| MarkDude | Enough power to use GIMP | 20:50 |
| MarkDude | HDMI out | 20:50 |
| MarkDude | and a reasonable price (gf is getting it for gift for me) | 20:50 |
| MarkDude | Apple would be nice- but that money goes to the Evil Empire | 20:51 |
| MarkDude | :D | 20:51 |
| * MarkDude is prepared to put in a decent wifi card if needed | 20:53 | |
| MarkDude | Hmmmm, maybe I should ask the *knower of all things * akk :) | 20:54 |
| geofft | yeah, make sure you get the Intel wifi | 20:54 |
| MarkDude | No doubt | 20:55 |
| MarkDude | thx geofft | 20:58 |
| * MarkDude is off to lunch | 20:58 | |
| philipballew | Gareth, whens a good time to have a meeting with you to talk about this SCaLE Youth thing? | 21:20 |
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