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me: *starts setting up GPU passthrough on my laptop*
me: wow! this is going well, unlike a lot of other technical things recently which have gone horribly wrong!
the guide I'm using: WARNING! The next step can brick your computer if you don't do it right!
me: ...
me: *closes everything and comes back to masto*
well, not "brick", but "if you get this wrong, you cannot use one of the graphics card on your OS, which means you can't see what you're doing to fix it again"