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12,842 questions with no upvoted or accepted answers
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BTRFS and disk usage mystery
# df -h /
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda2 119G 113G 5.5G 96% /
and BTRFS agrees:
# btrfs fi df /
Data, single: total=111.00GiB, used=110.53GiB
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Ctrl+F (find) is not working as expected on certain websites in Firefox
I'm (now) using Firefox 89.0 (64-bit) for Ubuntu, but this issue has existed for a long time when using Firefox on Ubuntu.
I'm having an issue with Ctrl+F (the find feature) in Firefox. Mostly it ...
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Why is my newly formatted (NTFS) 4 TB external hard drive has a Total Reserved Clusters of 4.7 GB?
I just bought a new external HDD (WD My Book 4 TB, it's my 3rd of the 4 TB variant).
As per usual, I formatted it using NTFS with 4KB cluster size because I'm using Windows 10, but then when I checked ...
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GRUB boot detection failed
I updated my image to ubuntu 20.04 from 16.04 and as a part of it upgraded grub to grub2. From the syslog, I am observing the following errors:
Oct 19 10:30:10 host-1 systemd[1]: Starting GRUB failed ...
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How to disable Ctrl+Shift+U in Ubuntu 20.04?
ctrl+shift+u is a change case, to set lowercase, but it conflicts with annother command, that produces a underlined ''u'', which produces an emoji when combined with a number.
It annoyed me so much ...
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Three monitor setup in Ubuntu 20.04
I have a Lenovo Thinkpad E531 running Ubuntu 20. I want to connect two external monitors using the VGA and HDMI connectors on the notebook.
The problem that I am running into is that xrandr won't ...
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How can I emulate Ubuntu 18.04 on MacOS using qemu?
How can I run Ubuntu 18.04 on my MacBook Air (Mojave) using QEMU? (yes I have to use QEMU for now.) I got QEMU from here. But also got it from Homebrew as well.
I've tried looking at the QEMU's ...
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Install Python 3.7.3 from source with SSL failed
I am having troubles installing Python 3.7.3 with SSL.
All my compilations are successful, but the final install of module _ssl is failed.
Step 1: Install OpenSSL:
git clone https://github.com/openssl/...
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cURL: curl: (18) transfer closed with 96671047906 bytes remaining to read
I am trying to download a very massive file (~92Gb) using cURL:
curl -L -o 'file.tar.gz' -C - http://abc.dummy/file.tar.gz
and constantly getting into:
curl: (18) transfer closed with ... bytes ...
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xrandr doesn't detect HDMI monitor
My second monitor has suddenly stopped working after a reboot.
I'm on Ubuntu 18.04 with an OpenBox desktop and an nVidia 1060, using the nVidia 396 driver. I've been fiddling with my display settings ...
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fsck_exfat: Could not update main boot region: Bad file descriptor - Mac OS X - external hard drive
My external hard drive (seagate barracuda with good SMART status insidev erbatim 4TB store 'n' go) has 3 main partitions:
1) ntfs
2) hfs+ for time machine backup
3) exfat to transfer files between ...
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VNC from MacOS screen sharing to linux Ubuntu
I’m trying to screen share from a MacBook to a VM running Ubuntu on Parallels on a MacBook Pro on the same network. I can ssh to it fine, but using the same account and IP address in MacOS screen ...
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git difftool doesn't open meld
I have the below in my .gitconfig. For some reason git difftool doesn't open up meld. It only works with meld. I'm using Ubuntu.
How can I fix it so that meld is opened?
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tool = meld [...
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Windows 10 fail to boot with 0xc0000001 error code
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Hello, I'm running multiboot installation on machine with UEFI. I have Windows 10 and Ubuntu installed, managed by Grub at startup and I have laptop working like this for about half a ...
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Reset android studio appearance settings to default
Suddenly the UI texts of Android studio became bold (maybe after an inappropriate shutdown). I didn't change font settings for android studio appearance myself. This is how it looks like:
Before:
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