[05:18] <lotuspsychje> good morning to all
[05:26] <lotuspsychje> hey Bashing-om
[05:26] <lotuspsychje> Bashing-om: not sure if vivekenanda's issue was solved yesterday
[05:34] <Bashing-om> lotuspsychje: Ubknown .. But I bet that installing with a EFI usb did the trick .
[05:34] <lotuspsychje> might be
[05:34] <Bashing-om> unknown*
[06:17] <lordievader> Good morning
[06:30] <lotuspsychje> hey lordievader
[06:43] <lotuspsychje> on the train lordievader ?
[07:25] <lordievader> Hey lotuspsychje. No. Finished my master assignment, no need anymore to travel to Utrecht.
[07:25] <lordievader> How are you doing?
[07:33] <Bashing-om> good nite - 'Nuf \o
[11:58] <BluesKaj> Hi folks
[14:12] <oerheks> interesting, Popey announced https://community.ubuntu.com/ > https://popey.com/blog/posts/new-ubuntu-community-hub-launched.html
[14:12] <popey> :D
[14:13] <oerheks> hi popey, this is more in line with askubuntu, looks good!
[14:14] <popey> Thanks. Suggestions for improvements most welcome!
[14:14]  * oerheks continues washing windows* ( not the trademark)
[15:00] <nicomachus> I downloaded this desktop news/weather app called Coffee that was featured on OMGUbuntu and it's really, really bad
[15:00] <nicomachus> why is OMGUbuntu recommending crap like that
[15:01] <nicomachus> Like, it takes up 1/3 of my desktop and is always-on-top. no way to change that setting. There's only 6 possible news sources to choose from, mostly international (BBC, etc), and it wouldn't even load once I set those sources and my location for weather. Just kept spinning the loading icon for 10 mins.
[15:01] <nicomachus> WHY would anyone use that over something like newsbeuter or just a damn browser.
[15:03] <nicomachus> Spotify client also seems to have gotten 2 updates within the last week. And they seem to be major updates because it removes my desktop icon each time and makes me re-add it. Usually there are months between updates for spotify.
[15:03] <nicomachus> Maybe they're finally devoting some resources to us poor linux fools?
[15:04] <BluesKaj> still can't read the fonts on a large monitor, there no font options
[15:05] <BluesKaj> on spotify linux
[15:06] <BluesKaj> readable on a 50inch TV on windows, but not linux
[15:24] <nicomachus> Odd. Ubuntu fonts usually scale really well, but idk if they're using Ubuntu fonts.
[15:24] <nicomachus> I do use Spotify on my HTPC and throw it up on the 55-inch in the living room often, don't usually have much trouble.
[15:30] <BluesKaj> spotify fonts aren't readable from 10' away here
[15:31] <BluesKaj> and I still don't need glasses :-)
[15:59] <Asero> Mh
[16:16] <nicomachus> Mh
[16:24] <BluesKaj> mhz
[16:36] <nicomachus> interesting. NordVPN has a Chrome extension now and it puts all Chrome traffic through the VPN but nothing else.
[16:47] <BluesKaj> I'm using PIA , it has a lot of servers and also a separate proxy thru the netherlands for various clients like irc or torrents etc.
[16:57] <BluesKaj> nicomachus,  I've read good things about the Nord vpn service
[17:04] <nicomachus> BluesKaj: I like it much better than PIA. PIA was getting too politically active for my tastes, and doing it in a way I despise. Nord let pay for 2 years with a pre-paid VISA card and I've seen better speeds and more options for connections.
[17:09] <BluesKaj> nicomachus, I see, my internet connection is basic dsl here in the boonies and I haven't noticed much diff between DL speeds with it, as for thier political actions, the only thing I know about is their dispute with Russia about vpn privacy issues, so they pulled the servers there.
[17:10] <nicomachus> they've been getting into US politics with very misleading, click-bait headlines on their blog. And donating to political causes. No thanks. I want a VPN tht focuses on providing VPN service. Not politics.
[17:11] <nicomachus> And I have a gigabit fiber connection so I definitely notice the speed.
[17:12] <BluesKaj> I see Nordvpn  has a 72% off sale for 2 yrs serveice...very tempting ,but I just paid up for a year back in April. I'll check them out again next spring
[17:13] <nicomachus> Yea that's the deal I got.
[17:50] <BluesKaj> nicomachus, just found out that PIA also has the vpn extension for google-chrome, just finished setting it up