The issue is that it is simply not built with reliability as a high priority so probably some hardware component shits itself too much after a while.There is a reason every reasonable company that needs a server to run reliably in production uses something orders of magnitude more expensive than a rpi.

You lucked out with your previous experiences, but many others did not, or the industry would not pay the price of a rpi a month to run a machine with the specs of a rpi.

That said, if you don’t need the reliability some easy hacks like a reboot cronjob or systemd timer, or trying to turn off unneeded services or peripherals could give you 90% of an industrial server’s reliability

Better plot than most movies these days

Well, its random, like… by definition.

So i actually have the same laptop and had a ton of fun installing arch on it over the last christmas holidays. The experience made me understand a lot, triggered my new love for arch and was a fun project overall.

I ended up having a stable CLI setup with ytfzf and mpv to watch my favorite yt channels in glorious 720p, got bluetooth working for my headset and all. Very fun experience.

Edit: i am unsure on the 32bit part, I think mine is 64, could be another generation. In any case i also have 1gb of ram

Depends from the field really, a math paper from the 70s would be considered fairly recent in some cases.

I would not want to neither deal with security issues nor pay the data costs associated with some an app being able to connecting to my phone to download media

Short lived governements are a feature, not a bug. By removing power from the prime minister italians tried to avoi having issues like in the 1930’s with strong leaders getting too much of it.

I believe you are mistaken, there is no way that reloading a tab from the web is faster than it being read from the disk.

Your OS should do this automatically, your programs shouldn’t worry about cold memory.

The contradiction is in the claim that the vocal minority is significant. One could argue that the lack of mainstream distros not using systemd is an indicator of the lack of a significant population against it.

Are you aware that the majority of cpus sold today go to cloud computing? Believe it or not, but that is an application space with multiple users on the same machine.

In their defense there only so many big rivers, round there, and most do function as border