Holy shit that’s brilliant

Fuckin LLM bubble needs to burst already. I want some crazy compute cards to play with.

Also, who knew the only people who would pay 2400/yr for access would bebe the ones who plan to make hundreds of queries per day. What do like, people try to think about value for money before they buy stuff?! What are you all… like not filthy rich?! Ew.

That’s ok, with how much more they’re paid than everyone else I’m sure they’re all far too clever to be fooled - corporations are the epitome of a meritocracy don’t you know?

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.

Yeah the h1b program is great in theory - if someone on another side of the border has learned a tech skill I say let em compete.

The problem is that employers know that if they sponsor a visa they basically own that person. If they fire them it’s 60 days before they have to have sold everything and be gone or they risk a 3 year ban for unlawful presence. They can technically find another sponsor in that time but good fucking luck.

It’s almost comically created to give employers a nice exploitable workforce instead of putting them on par with other employees. They can pay shit and put huge workloads on them and it’s “suck it up or we’ll replace you with the one of the 10,000 people we turned down for the visa.”

I’ll compete with other skilled workers for a job but if you put a big “you can abuse this one tho cuz he probs brown” sticker on the foreign workers I get upset.

Dude I knew was on one and essentially told me if he lost his job they’d just deport him

Lol, hilariously racist and stupid about it - “all the brown people must go, except the ones I personally need to exploit”

Nature abhors a vacuum but it fucking loves a crab

Did you use bleach in the wash? If it’s a light brown looking spot on black fabric that’s clearly lighter than the surrounding fabric, that’s my guess.

This is what gen AI was born for

I know it’s not totally relevant but I once convinced a company to run their log aggregators with 75 servers and 15 disks in raid0 each.

We relied on the app layer to make sure there was at least 3 copies of the data and if a node’s array shat the bed the rest of the cluster would heal and replicate what was lost. Once the DC people swapped the disk we had automation to rebuild the disks and add the host back into the cluster.

It was glorious - 75 servers each splitting the read/write operations 1/75th and then each server splitting that further between 15 disks. Each query had the potential to have ~1100 disks respond in concert, each with a tiny slice of the data you asked for. It was SO fast.

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

TIL - Thank you!

You aren’t imagining it, they add various types of gum and additives to slow melting rates of real ice cream, and a lot of ice cream is straight up fake - “frozen dairy dessert” is a euphemism for fake ice cream often padded out with cheaper ingredients like vegetable oils.

https://www.foodandwine.com/drumstick-ice-cream-doesnt-melt-tiktok-8635415

Honestly now-a-days one of the few ways we are going to protect ourselves is to rely on the ingredients list our governments mandate and familiarize ourselves with what products are actually what they claim they are, whether they contain anything questionable, and what euphemisms they use to hide undesirable ingredients. (Hydrogenated Oil == Trans Saturated Fat, Natural Sweeteners == Sugar, Corn Syrup == cheap substitute for sugar)

For those of us in the US (yes I know this is world - sorry) we can only hope the brain worm dead bear boy doesn’t gut the FDA as badly as he promises, or companies are going to start adding all sorts of fun stuff to our food.

Educate yourself and your friends about “the poison squad”, fascinating story of the kinds of crazy shit they used to put in food. Copper sulfate in canned peas and such.

My tinfoil hat can run linux