I first read of him in Bill Bryson’s A Short History of Nearly Everything (fantastic book). It really shows how awful this man was.

I also love this quote from the wiki article on his legacy -

He “had more adverse impact on the atmosphere than any other single organism in Earth’s history”.

Lol Heroes reference?

https://www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/2025/11/budget-samsung-phones-shipped-with-unremovable-spyware-say-researchers

I have to deal with tons of app issues in work, from users of Samsung and Xiaomi. I would honestly never buy either brand.

They are both filled with proprietary garbage, you have to use workarounds to try and disable and even then, these two companies are some of the worst for simply ignoring the workarounds and overriding them.

https://dontkillmyapp.com/

https://dontkillmyapp.com/problem

I bought a laptop very similar (same model group but from the year after) to this just before Christmas for my niece. Got it 2nd hand, as my brother was just looking a laptop that she could browse on and maybe do some homework.

I refurbished it and got it cleaned up and I tried lubuntu, xubuntu, linux mint xfce and one other (forget now). Same thing kept happening. Would simply freeze when trying to boot them. Had removed Secure Boot too.

After couple days of trying I ended up giving up and going with a Windows 10 LTSC IoT version from Massgrave for her.

Wish I had better news or something more productive for you. Sorry!

Fun fact - In the film The Bodyguard, Whitney Houston plays a famous singer who’s being stalked and her new bodyguard, Kevin Costner’s character, brings her to one of his bars… a country n western place. They dance to the Dolly Parton song and this is kinda the start of their relationship and they fall in love.

Fast forward to the end, and Whitney’s Houston’s character decides to cover the song in a new album and goes on tour and it’s a massive hit.

Good film by the way, worth a watch even it’s a bit cheesy. The stalker guy is actually lowkey terrifying lol

On the off chance you haven’t tried this, you might need to try disabling the ‘phantom process killer’ from the developer options if that’s thing on your device -

https://localdesktop.github.io/docs/user/getting-started