This actually makes a tremendous amount of sense! I've heard one fan struggle for some time but never saw the temps get serious. Maybe they did and I didn't notice it! I'm going to do as suggested with essentially banging it around once I get brave enough. Thanks a lot for the suggestions.
I wish I really understood it. LEGO is based in Denmark (sorry if I'm wrong here) so it is kind of a weird translation to English. My understanding is that an individual piece is a brick and the collective is LEGO. As far as "sands" is concerned, that is typically used for whole, or regions of, deserts. Once again, I really dislike the usage of LEGO as a collective noun in English. It might make sense in Dutch, but I have no clue how to read that language, let alone speak it.
No problems on external monitor. Only the built-in has issues. I would like to be able to take it places. The issue is so intermittent that I can't chase it down to one cause. I haven't tried a live usb yet - I will do so as soon as I can.
Yeah. I have an external. I was just hoping that this community might be able to find something I couldn't. Best I have is that screenshot with the model number.
I'd prefer a large series of interlacing lines at a specific refresh rate. I posted here because I thought there would be a high percentage of people that could maybe diagnose the issue. I don't think there is something like /c/laptopgore here.
This is a weird problem. I'm going to open it up this weekend. For about a year it has seemingly randomly done this. Opening and closing the lid doesn't seem to be the problem because I left it open for a couple of years with no issue. I posted here in hopes that there might have been a driver issue along the way. I'll poke around and see if I can see a hardware issue.
Had to? No. Should have, especially when extracting unknown files with a weird structure? Absolutely. BSD malware very much exists, which means Mac malware exists. You may have not felt the need to worry, but you very much should have been careful.
cute!