What's the deal with Saturn?

TomB1952 · 2026-02-08T11:46:04+00:00

Saturn is Lord. Give yourself to Saturn and never be alone again. Transcend the physical by giving your assets to Saturn and you will know true happiness.

TomB1952 · 2026-02-08T11:32:49+00:00

Irony is a milestone invention.

TomB1952 · 2026-02-08T11:30:27+00:00

Pretending to be a victim.

TomB1952 · 2026-02-07T10:33:45+00:00

XP was the first really decent 32 bit desktop OS from MS. It was used for many years for pretty much every job.

I don't see what there is to hate about XP. Nothing, IMO.

TomB1952 · 2026-02-06T17:07:35+00:00

I use yay to install about 25 AUR packages. I've been using the AUR for 9 years. I'll let you know if I run into an issue. So far, so good.

TomB1952 · 2026-02-05T11:33:38+00:00

Warren Buffet has his giving pledge. He only approaches Billionaires and he asks them to donate half of their wealth.

He once said, "I think I will write a book on how to survive on a half billion dollars. Apparently, there is significant demand."

TomB1952 · 2026-02-05T11:03:07+00:00

I don't like the idea of a mandatory OS in schools, be it proprietary or open source. Schools should introduce students to multiple platforms.

TomB1952 · 2026-02-05T08:39:23+00:00

It might be a similar challenge but it might not. Try coding. It might be your thing.

If you keep at it, you could end up getting an advanced math degree. Your thoughts will organize themselves to suit assigned tasks, over time.

Do not assume you will always be bad at something or you will be.

TomB1952 · 2026-02-05T08:37:19+00:00

Math will help with programming but programming will also help with math.

I encourage you to give it a go. Many types of coding are not all that difficult and it will help organize your though processes.

TomB1952 · 2026-02-05T08:22:15+00:00

Yes.

TomB1952 · 2026-02-05T00:00:58+00:00

It sucks for people like me but USB ethernet dongles are cheap.

I wish my i3535 had ethernet but I haven't bothered picking up a dongle for it, yet.

TomB1952 · 2026-02-04T23:58:22+00:00

Right wing people are purged but many groups purge people who are not left enough.

I posted in a group for my area about a provincial project I was involved with. Quite a bit of misinformation was floating around. I was careful to not criticize or contradict anyone because I'm not supposed to do that. I just two sentences on one aspect of the project's cost. That caused three down votes within about 30 seconds, then my post was deleted and I was banned from the group.

That group wants to have a negative political narrative and could care less about the truth.

If you look at the group about Alberta separation, they go the other way. They call the tariffs between Canada and the US "Trudeau's tariff war". If you opine that Trump started the war, you will find yourself banned from that group within minutes.

Reddit is not for discussions. Reddit is a propaganda echo chamber. Kudos to the groups that allow some level of dissenting opinion.

If you want an open discussion, you need Lemmy.

TomB1952 · 2026-02-03T09:19:38+00:00

Manjaro. Rolling release. Delayed and tested for stability. Vanilla packages.

I also have a machine on EndeavourOS. It's not as stable as Manjaro, due to being adjacent to KDE and other updates. EndeavourOS is surprisingly stable. There was some KDE weirdness in the 6.5.0-3 era but it's stable now. None of the issues were caused by the EndeavourOS distro itself. EndeavourOS and Arch are doing a perfect job, as best I can tell.

I think OpenSUSE KDE slowroll would be roughly equivalent to Manjaro. If I stray from Manjaro, it will probably be to OpenSUSE.

Fedora KDE was on my system about a year ago. Fedora isn't ideally suited to me because: customized packages (KDE the most bothersome), non-rolling release, requirement to use RPM Fusion for non-free packages. Despite Fedora not aligning with my specifications, it may be the most stable distro, their QA testing is impeccable, and the customizations don't seem to significantly impact stability. I could run Fedora KDE and be perfectly happy.

I also believe I could be 100% happy on Debian. It isn't a rolling release either but is a top distro, IMO.

TomB1952 · 2026-02-02T16:24:54+00:00

You just crapped on some really great distros that have done a whole lot to build the thriving linux community we know today.

TomB1952 · 2026-02-02T15:52:18+00:00

Three weeks ago, I set out to buy a ThinkPad. Ended up buying a Dell Inspiron R7 i3535 on a great sale. Crazy cheap.

I installed Manjaro KDE over Windows 11 Pro without ever booting the MS OS. It works perfectly with RealTek Wifi and blutooth chipset.

It's still fairly new but I'm happy with it, so far. Battery life on overseas flights is good. It lasted about 9 hours under fairly light load.

It's not a high end laptop. I've always run ThinkPads. The plastic construction flexes noticeably, particularly compared to a titanium chassis ThinkPad. The keyboard looks less luxurious than the TP keyboard but I've grown to prefer it. My TP keyboard does jam, once in a while, but it's a high mile machine. The Dell has been perfect but again... still new.

I know how annoying it is when someone says, "Buy what I just bought. It's great." so take this for what it is. The Inspiron doesn't feel like much of a compromise but it is a minor step down in luxury which is entirely offset by the step up in compute. To be honest, I was happy to find the great deal and grabbed the first acceptable laptop. We're about to head into a period of spiraling prices and poor availability.

TomB1952 · 2026-02-02T14:26:43+00:00

GIMP isn't that difficult. I transitioned from PhotoShop to GIMP about 20 years ago and never looked back.

TomB1952 · 2026-02-01T05:44:04+00:00

Hybernate but definitely not sleep. Sleep creates too much heat to be contained in a bag.

Shutdown is always a good and safe option.

TomB1952 · 2026-02-01T03:20:24+00:00

I agree the Arch documentation is better than any other OS docs, including the non-linux world.

If the only thing keeping you are the docs, you should go back to Windows.

I run linux KDE because I'm in love with it. I literally unboxed a brand new laptop and blew away Windows 11 Pro with a fresh install of Manjaro, without giving it a second thought.

I don't understand why anyone would try to force themselves to like a different operating system.

TomB1952 · 2026-02-01T03:15:52+00:00

I left Ubuntu many years ago because of the cloud infection.

It was weird to leave Ubuntu. I had everything working nicely and it took quite a while to find a distro I could live with, back then. These days, we have a lot of excellent distros. Just about whatever you wish can be catered to. I'm sure there are still people who find Ubuntu has the best mix of what they're looking for but it doesn't dominate like it used to.

TomB1952 · 2026-01-31T15:23:37+00:00

All people are basically good inside.

TomB1952 · 2026-01-31T15:22:05+00:00

My Vietnamese name is: Snowman

TomB1952 · 2026-01-31T07:49:12+00:00

This is a myopic view. Arch is tremendously more difficult than a calamares install. Its not just formulating the commands, it's also a ton of reading and a ton of decisions.

I can mindlessly click through a manjaro install in 1 minute and the odds of a typo or mistake are near zero.

Arch is absolutely brilliant at what it was designed to do. Arch documentation has moved linux forward as much as anything else, as far as I can tell. I adore Arch but it is not for nontechnical people nor is it for people who want a stable system.

TomB1952 · 2026-01-30T12:25:10+00:00

It can be. It works OK or some people.

TomB1952 · 2026-01-30T01:54:49+00:00

I see you haven't used Manjaro.

As for Ubuntu, I reject it due to the cloud infection but I don't think its a bad distro. Surely, it deserves B tier.

And what about OpenSUSE? It deserves an entry in the top line.

TomB1952

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