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It takes integrity and bravery to challenge the lies of the powerful.
I recently revived a decade-old PC with a dual-boot setup: Windows 10 and Ubuntu 24.04. While Windows ran fine, Ubuntu was a nightmare—constant freezes, random logouts, and daily crashes.
After hitting my limit, I wiped Ubuntu and installed Debian. What a difference! It’s been months without a single crash. If you're struggling with stability on older hardware, Debian might be the "boring" (in a good way) solution you need.
This applies to me. My laptop is 10 years old, has 16G memory and is running Linux. I have replaced battery once before (and definitely need a new battery again now).
Edit: replace 9 years old with 10 years old
Also "just do X" infers that the person is very confident that "do X" will solve the issue. I like to get confident advice.
One side story. It is third party app that is not authorized by AA. Instead of get permission through a contract, the app developer scraped AA's data without AA's permission.
1. https://www.thepostathens.com/article/2022/03/asian-american...
In R
y = c(1, 2, 3)
x = y
# now x is a copy of y
I was surprised that in python
y = [1, 2, 3]
x = y
# now x is y! What, why?
In R, I am used to the fact everything is an expression:
a = if (x > y) { 0 } else { 1 }
These survey methods come with huge uncertainty and lots of pitfalls. I would not be surprised if the result in the paper is not reproducible. In fact, "over half of psychology studies fail reproducibility test"[1]
In my view, folks who totally disregard science are no more truly intelligent than say 2500 years ago when people believe that "the natural state of an object is to be at rest" (check Wikipedia page for Aristotle).