Three Dollar Quill

Well, that sucked. Several days after my laptop appeared to be working again, it started showing the same issue as before. At that point, I gave up on it.

I'm writing this entry on a new laptop that I installed linux on from scratch. Here are some notes:

• Not going to get anywhere without disabling secure boot in the BIOS.
• I had a number of issues around resume, that may or may not be fixed. The last thing I tried was to switch from hybrid to discrete graphics in the BIOS, and that seems to have fixed horrible screen issues on resume. I also disabled the nvidia suspend and resume services, which may have been causing a different set of resume issues. The other thing I kept was to switch to the proprietary drivers.

No obvious problems yet; hopefully I'll manage to publish this entry tonight.

Anyway, the broad takeaway from this isn't any particular technical advice, but "Try to avoid having to do non-mainstream tech stuff to your main electronic device when you don't have some kind of fallback available."

Good night.