You are giving them too much credit if you think they can take measurements and conduct research.
You are giving them too much credit if you think they can take measurements and conduct research.
I can sudo. Last time I looked into this, Memtest86+ version 6 was required to work with UEFI but it wasn’t available for Ubuntu 22.04. Now it seems that 24.04 has it, so I might update and see if I can get the test running. Thanks for the suggestion!
I can’t run memtest unfortunately. The option isn’t there and I don’t have permission to boot from a USB stick.
I do have an interview scheduled, just saying…
It wouldn’t affect boot though.
I just did that! Brilliant idea, thanks!
That’s a good idea. If I can get it to boot today, I will check the logs, thanks!
It’s not hard to reproduce, but it’s annoying that when they finally came here to check it, no problems happened. I had to bug them so much to even get them to have a look.
I have already seen data having to be thrown away because the researcher copied and pasted it incorrectly from multiple spreadsheets and no one could tell what the correct data was anymore. No one should be doing this if they are responsibly doing “real analytical work”.
You are completely right, and the Open Science movement is catching on. The idea is to give everyone access to the (anonymised) data and use only tools that are freely accessible, even to scientists from developing countries without Microsoft licenses, so that they too can rerun your analyses and verify your results. You shouldn’t be getting downvoted.
If you own a name, you can grant anyone you want permission to use that name. It’s not illegal.
Why is Arch with i3wm the only alternative to Windows? There are many other distros and desktop environments.
Which is funny because the original comment doesn’t mention Linux or Arch at all.
Not sure about this. When I installed Firefox, it asked me if I allowed it to collect data and run studies (I answered yes). Also, as far as I remember, I never changed the Marketing Data setting and it was off.
Raw cashews are poisonous though, at least to humans. Maybe those crows were far smarter than you think.
I can’t believe no one mentioned this yet. I hope OP reads this comment. The first step is to make sure this new computer you want to buy is compatible with Linux. Otherwise your experience will be very frustrating, no matter what distro you choose. That is, if you can install any distros at all. Ask the vendor if this machine is compatible with Linux.
The newer one is a lot funnier though.
According to what I have heard, other elite hacker skills that are at risk of getting lost in the younger generations include searching on Google and using e-mail.
I did run a similar test and there were no errors detected. Thanks anyway!