I remember playing Katamari, and it having really unique gameplay. I’ll have to check out the other ones you mentioned. They seem pretty cool! Thanks for the suggestions!

Huh, nice timing. I’m laying on my floor typing this because my bed was too soft. I like the firmness of the floor sometimes.

I’m not positive, but I may have run into this guy on Spotify. Several months ago I was listening to Spotify and was recommended two songs in a row that sounded very similar, but had very subtle differences in them. For instance, the baseline in one was slightly altered, and the main synthesisor sounded slightly different. But the overall rhythm and melody were more-or-less the same.

I was able to find 100s of versions of what were essentially the same song with a different title, artist and album art. I made a playlist of them all, but it looks like Spotify removed all but two of the songs I had added:

Obsidian Sisterhood by Aggaraway

Konnual by The Sirens

Edit: just found another one. Beasratis by Olrul

You’re an inhuman monster!

That’s a lot of assumptions to not even answer OPs question.

It’s always projection.

I mean the article was written 8 years ago, so maybe they weren’t as common?

I’m not saying I disagree, but I had a different experience.

“you’re not going to carry a calculator with you everywhere”

Hairy Pitts

Ella Vader

Shanda Lee

Robin Banks

Chris P. Bacon

And?

I believe it refers to this: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dolphin_(structure)

Seems normal.

Let’s assume for the sake of argument that he did commit suicide. The next question I would ask is “why would he do that”?

See my reply for some sources I found.

Found this file by user “arindas” on GitHub which seems to highlight a lot of the issues that I’ve been seeing. To summarize:

Package Management

Manjaro maintains a separate repository that is not in sync with Arch’s main repositories which means Manjaro is not just Arch. To add to that, even Manjaro wiki states that it is not Arch!

Source: https://wiki.manjaro.org/index.php?title=Manjaro:_A_Different_Kind_of_Beast

Manjaro claims to be stable just by delaying packages for a week. This is not an approach a stable distribution would take at all!

Say that a package in the AUR depends on a library, say libxyz. And libxyz is in the main repos, not in the AUR. The package is updated so that it relies on the new features introduced in libxyz’s version 1.1 however Manjaro delays packages so libxyz is still on 1.0 in Manjaro. If you update the package in Manjaro, it will break because Manjaro holds back packages. So the only way Manjaro can be stable is by literally forking all the Arch related repositories including the AUR and keeping them in sync.

However it is important to note that often these problems are isolated to single packages and not the system as a whole. Please read #25 (comment) for additional context.

Security

The Manjaro system updater used to have a serious security vulnerability [in 2018] which has fortunately been fixed.

Source: https://lists.manjaro.org/pipermail/manjaro-security/2018-August/000785.html

This is actually a core package, not an extra or community package. To quote the list,

I have discovered an issue with one of your core Manjaro packages, manjaro-system 20180716-1 and earlier. The issue allows a local attacker to execute a Denial of Service, Arbitrary Code Execution, and Privilege Escalation attack.

In an update, password less updates in pamac (Manjaro’s AUR helper) were sneaked in and from the look in the issue made concerning this, the change was made to look like a “feature”. This is a major security issue considering that packages in AUR are not checked by Arch Linux maintainers (and Manjaro does not maintain its own either). Some AUR packages were found to be malware in the past. So think about a casual user (Manjaro’s target demographic are not really power users) installing a harmless-looking AUR package that could potentially mess up their system!

Source: https://gitlab.manjaro.org/applications/pamac/-/issues/719

The post also mentioned an issue where the Manjaro updater used bad practices when updating packages such as using the no-confirm flag. This appears to have been fixed from what I can tell.

Manjaro let their SSL certificates expire not once, not twice, not thrice, but four times! The first time [2015], they asked the users to use a private window and/or change the system time.

Source: https://web.archive.org/web/20150409095421/https://manjaro.github.io/expired_SSL_certificate/

Changing the system time could have unintended consequences such as with cron jobs not running at the intended time. It’s also not a best security practice to use an incognito window to bypass the SSL expiry alert. The correct solution is to not let the certificates expire in the first place, which is not difficult and is done by all secure websites.

The second time when the SSL certificates expired [2016], they did the same.

Source: https://web.archive.org/web/20160528135123/http://manjaro.github.io/SSL-Certificate-Expired/

This time the Manjaro developers didn’t recommend changing the system time, but they still recommended creating an exception for the Manjaro website.

The third SSL certificate expiration was handled a little more sanely [2021].

Source? https://web.archive.org/web/20220102232338/https://forum.manjaro.org/t/expired-certificate-for-iso-download-on-download-manjaro-org/96441

The fourth time, HSTS was set but the website was still down [2022].

Source: https://web.archive.org/web/20221013234550/https://manjarno.snorlax.sh/expiry-2022-08-17.png

Sending Unexpectedly Large Traffic volume to AUR

I think some of the dates and sources in this section were wrong, but I did my best to correct them.

On 2021-04-26, the AUR (Arch User Repository) faced a huge web traffic spike from pamac clients, caused by a bad version of pamac, which is the default Graphical Package Manager for Manjaro

Source: https://gitlab.manjaro.org/applications/pamac/-/issues/1017

Manjaro developers have developed thorough technical solutions to mitigate the huge traffic spike from pamac installations [2021-10-02]. They have outlined the steps taken here #25 (comment)

Source: https://gitlab.manjaro.org/applications/pamac/-/issues/1161

On 2021-10-14, Pamac was once again blocked by the AUR for shipping another version that flooded the AUR with requests. However the updated version itself was meant to mitigate problems.

Source: https://gitlab.manjaro.org/applications/pamac/-/issues/1135

Additional sources: https://www.reddit.com/r/linuxquestions/comments/wqzrpl/did_manjaro_just_forget_to_renew_the_ssl/ https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/q85t8n/deleted_by_user/

Thanks for the context :)

Could you elaborate on what you mean by Manjaro being “a known trap”?

Edit: See my reply for some sources I found.

I know it doesn’t really answer your question, but that UI is so confusing. What does “13°F Today 29°F/16°F” mean? We can assume that it means it’s 13°F right now, and today was predicted to be a high of 29° and a low of 16°, but there isn’t really enough information to know for sure without additional context. The 29°F/16°F could be the predicted highs for the morning/evening instead. 13°F could also be the predicted temperature for today and 29°F/16°F could be tomorrow’s predicted temperature. There’s just not enough info to know what the numbers are saying.

If you’re anything like me and are impatient and don’t mind a bit of tinkering, you could look into http://trinusvr.com/psvr. I haven’t tried it myself, but it should let you play steamvr games on your PSVR.