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That reminds me more of a pendulum. Swing it, and it'll always go back to the original, vertical, position because it develops a restoring moment.
(when disturbed from a condition of equilibrium or steady motion)
.I'm fascinated that someone that started off with this resists using two words instead of one this much. Let's paste in some more definitions:
Cambridge Dictionary:
stability:
Debian is not likely to change, Arch will change constantly. That's why we say Debian is stable, and Arch isn't.
reliability:
You can and have argued that Arch is reliable.
No, I'm not conflating "a" with "b". I'm using stability exactly as it's used in physics.
https://phys.libretexts.org/Bookshelves/College_Physics/College_Physics_1e_(OpenStax)/09%3A_Statics_and_Torque/9.03%3A_Stability
My point is, it's a completely valid use of the word. And yes, so is reliable, though I think "reliable" fails to capture the essence of the system changing but maintaining it's state, hence why we don't study "reliable systems" in physics.
I recommend picking something else to be pedantic about.