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    4 days ago

    I’ve been there. I’m 100% sure my PC is now a brick, but I run across a post by some random person online:

    "Press these keys, then type this exactly and hit “Enter”

    And roughly five minutes later my PC is stable, purring happily, and two minor annoyances have gone away thanks to package updates.

    Thank you all, kind Internet Linux guru strangers.

    Edit: More like 25 minutes, really. 20 minutes of my reading docs to verify why this solution can work, and then 5 minutes for it to work.