Holy shit that’s brilliant

Honestly it might still just be the SOC failing - when I worked in hardware repair most laptops had separate chips for each but now tech has progressed to have them both on one “system on a chip”. So back in my day if it was gpu the cpu might keep humming along while the gpu was fried, but that’s less relevant now-a-days.

Sorry bro, I’d say back anything you give a shit about up because she’s probably on the way out. If my experience holds, even with the single chip boards - eventually it’ll artifact like this every boot and you’ll be digging out the hard drives to get at your files.

In your shoes I’d recommend fucking with the drivers and your OS, it’s still possible that it’s the drivers are interacting with the hw wrong and causing the issues, but in reality that’s a long shot. Also run memtest86 overnight one night and see if maybe its the ram?

If it does die and you’re feeling hack-y, the dude who suggested an oven reflow is not wrong. If you manage to figure out getting the motherboard out (make sure no plastic that could melt!!) and put it in the oven at reflow temp, you might revive it. If picking the laptop up and twisting the body slightly can cause the crash, it’s almost definitely soldier joint issues.

Are the fans doing anything under normal load? If it’s not moving air at all that’s cause for concern too. Dead fans mean thermal issues, which can cook chips.

Oh one last edit, check how long the warranty is - fucky soldier is a manufacturing defect.

Best of luck brother, sorry for the shitty news.

Does it continue playing sound when it does this? That supports the gpu theory if so.

Also, next time it does this see if plugging an external monitor in displays anything. If it’s the same pattern it’s probably the gpu, if not possibly monitor or cable.

Usually a sign of a dying gpu. Used to work in a laptop repair shop.

They made Rhode Island into an island, it’s perfect

I put my cloud in containers

git grounded

Blasphemy, that’s not regex that’s just fancy grep

Oh ho ho, not just in public my friend

Any roadblocks? Any roadblocks? Squaaa, any roadblocks?

Perhaps more than one thing, who can know?

for X in $(seq -f host%02g 1 9); do echo $X; ssh -q $X “grep the shit”; done

:)

But yeah fair, I do actually use a big data stack for log monitoring and searching… it’s just way more usable haha

This was how I learned my SO’s dead name - i avoided it for like 9 months then she had to venmo me for something. 😭

Oh well, mission accomplished by waiting as long as possible to learn it; I’ve only known her by her proper name for so long that her dead name is meaningless to me. 🙌

Best I can do is them banding together to fuck normal people over and extract as much cash as they can

If people don’t wake up, “deregulation” is going to defang the fda, epa, and other agencies that were set up because people were being hurt and killed.

If you don’t know about it, look up “the poison squad” - people were putting things like borax in food because it made it prettier, it took a guy literally feeding volunteers various things people were adding to food to prove they were poison. There were no rules for what you could sell as food.

If you want to feel really sad, look up “swill milk” - babies died being fed it because it had such little nutritional value. It often had chalk mixed in to make it appear less watery.

Capitalism encourages people to hurt others for personal gain. We need these organizations to keep a lid on the worst of us.