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From: TJ <TJ@noneofyour.business>
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Subject: Re: GIMP 3.0.0-RC1
Date: Sun, 29 Dec 2024 16:00:47 -0500
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On 2024-12-29 12:57, Farley Flud wrote:
> I scoff at these idiots who purchase exorbitant pickup trucks/SUVs
> and then fill them up with sub-grade, discount gasoline.
> 
> Every vehicle deserves only TOP TIER gas, and every computer deserves
> only customized GNU/Linux.
> 
My grandfather's 72-year-old tractor is still an important part of our 
machinery fleet, used almost every day during the growing season. The 
manual states: "Use a good, clean, gasoline with an octane rating of at 
least 65."

I can't find any of the 65 octane stuff, so I use 87, closest I can get. 
With an optional manifold, the manual says the tractor is supposed to be 
able to run on something called "low-cost fuel," whatever that is. I 
can't find any of that, either.

I *could* buy premium, TOP TIER gas for it, but it would be a complete 
waste of money that I don't have, and I might have to de-tune the timing 
so it would run the way it should. I don't have the time, or the 
inclination, to do that.

As for my Linux installs, Mageia only needs a little customization here 
and there to get it the way I like it, so that's what I use. Besides, as 
the Leader of the Mageia Quality Assurance Team, I really ought to use 
the distro pretty much as is if it's to stay usable by the less 
experienced users that don't know yet what to change and what to leave 
alone.

YMMV.

TJ