trying to do a bit of work on one of my gb linker tools on the new machine. can i get it to compile? can i fucking bollocks

argh this is so frustrating to debug, it happens so rarely and unpredictably
it's PROBABLY the igpu & hopefully the drivers but it COULD be a HW fault but it's so hard to confirm

i could just bite the bullet & buy a dedicated gpu (which i was gonna do eventually) & sweep all this under the rug.....

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after a full day of no crashes & even failing to trigger one by stressing the gpu (3d benchmark + streaming video + many browser tabs at the same time) it again randomly happened while web browsing tonight... but it actually recovered (w/display drivers disabled) without a sleep/wake cycle this time

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i messaged him again asking hey what's going on do you still want to meet and he just said can we do it tomorrow instead
okay!!!!! thanks for wasting my evening dickhead!!!!!

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guess what happened!!!!! i hate this shit it just fucks my entire evening because i'm just sat here waiting to hear from the prick

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update i messaged him about it & he replied asking if i was free this evening to which i replied yes anytime & you would think that would mean things are moving and we're going to meet and resolve this. but with this guy there's a 50/50 chance he will just ghost me for the rest of the day

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once again I am having landlord problems!!!!!
my flat and the one above are on a shared electricity meter, previously we'd each pay half to the landlord who would pay the bill
the new landlord seems to be incapable of sorting this out and i'm now getting overdue notices through my door

updated the bios on friday and after no problems yesterday it happened again today
but i realised that in the "crashed" state it is still responsive to some things & i was able to sleep & wake it which brought it back to windows with the display drivers disabled. so that might be the problem area

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i've got monday off work, at least, so i will try to have a chill next couple of days
apart from the one thing i still have to deal with. but i'm not thinking about that for now

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today didn't go well

maybe the last couple of months have finally caught up with me

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Found a cute tanuki on some packaging while I was out for my walk today! ^^

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it crashed again, again all I was doing was watching a stream and browsing the web
The thermals seem fine, I'm running memtest86 now & no errors. Nothing is in the event logs before it crashes
How do I even figure out what the issue is here

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some mini-arcade famiclones seen in Flying Tiger today...
Typo also had a handheld which I'm pretty sure was the same one I saw last week but in different colours. But the sales person was hovering so I didn't take a photo

Well I bought an adapter and now the monitor works so I was about ready to say it's all good now but then it just fully crashed while I was browsing the web so. hmm

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I finally swapped it out with the old PC. The glass side faces the wall so it just kinda lights up its corner
Stilllll not fully ready though because it doesn't work with the USB C-DisplayPort cable I have which I was relying on to connect one of my monitors to it πŸ™ƒ

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