Let’s make a patch that does animations too for good measure 🤣

Most of that information is actually publicly available.

Stuff like this https://www.usaspending.gov/search/?hash=624182a957cfea14bc90717fb91ec1f8

Lmao good ol gnome used to work great, which is why i recommend xfce :P

Maybe try diabling microcode updates on boot?

you can use dis_ucode_ldr kernel parameter according to the debian wiki:

https://wiki.debian.org/Microcode#Working around boot problems caused by microcode updates

i would think microcode is checked for corruption before loading, but thats just an assumption.

Does it do the same thing every time? Is there a working bios or uefi menu?

I honestly thought your washing machine was throwing the MCE when i opened the post 😹

If apt wont remove it, try using dpkg

https://www.baeldung.com/linux/apt-uninstall-dpkg-deb-package

if it doesnt work you may get a better idea whats going on.

Maybe a better title would have included “from 2009 to 2011”

Username checks out

Pretty sure you can brick your system real quick using efivarfs

https://docs.kernel.org/filesystems/efivarfs.html

some systems dont let you write but some do.

Theres a similar system i was messing with to read and write the firmware code… reading through this may be informative.

efivars should let your change any bios/uefi settings if thats what youre looking for.

Just the transmitting the export restricted (mostly cryptography algorithms) parts from the us directly or indirectly

Nothing a little edit wont fix 😹

Beaurocracy is a potent evil

Terrible 🙃

Impressive, but terrible.

I would avoid fractional scaling in general

Yeah my phone does this

no need to reinstall, a running system is always fixable, if you need networking try wired ethernet with a usb dongle or a usb wifi adapter or bluetooth/usb tethering to a phone

maybe start by running pacman -Syu again, in case it magically fixes itself.

Check dmesg for wifi related errors

figure out what wifi device you have and what kernel drivers support it

check that the driver module is available, try loading it manually with modprobe

reinstall relevant kernel modules. Hopefully this will fix whatever is wrong.

I thought && only proceeded to the next statement if the first did not crash

I dont think so… you can use it to set up deleted paritions again afaik but thats all that i know of.

Great time to mention tools like testdisk that can easily recover data that has been recently deleted on common filesystems.