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That's less likely to be the chipset, and more likely to be crap hardware. The chipset wouldn't cause PCIe disconnect/interrupt issues, but shitty power handling in a laptop would. Can I wager it happened when plugging/unplugging power or ramping up CPU or GPU util? That was a thing on those Lenovo convertibles for years, but they did throw that shoddy consumer hardware into the Thinkpad line which made it go downhill fast.

Secure Boot has nothing to do with, Broadcom keeps their drivers completely closed, and just doesn't support this chipset anywhere except Windows.

USB dongles would work fine, but probably cost more than an internal module. It sounded from your post like you're fine with opening the machine and navigating the internals, so swapping the WiFi module would only take 5m.

Just stay away from Broadcom in general. Intel has the best performing WiFi chipsets at current, but Atheros and Realtek work just fine as well.

Broadcom chipsets are notoriously lacking in any sort of open driver operation or collaboration. I'd honestly just replace it with a $25 Intel chipset, but if you want to fight through it: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/WifiDocs/Driver/bcm43xx

You'll notice that your specific chipset isn't mentioned, but it might be different now, so I'd double check.

Edit: after digging some more, there is zero support for this chipset anywhere except Windows, and it's a problematic chipset anyway. I'd just get an Intel (fully open drivers) and swap it.

What's the model of the machine, or the the WiFi module?

HOW FUCKING EMBARRASSING.

...I'm sure you know how search engines work

Somebody must have an exploit for the platform. Guessing it's Israel because of the messaging from a few weeks ago by various countries' security concerns.

Honeybees generally stay away from human activity. If you have a lot of flowers in your area, and big open spaces, they'll just stick to the flowers and away from your house. They're also unlikely to sting you unless you go to the hive and start messing with it and they don't recognize you.

Everyone with extra outdoor space to spare, call your local beekeepers and see if they will put a colony on your property. It helps the local plants and wildlife, and they'll do all the work in maintaining them. They just need volunteers to offer up space.

Also, talk to your local government about reducing the types of pesticides available for non-commercial purposes.

The simple stats and math really puts it in perspective.

Some people won't read this, but I guess I'm glad it's out there.

Simplest thing is to drag your fridge over to wherever your equipment may be and leave the door open at all times. 🙃

Seriously though, most consumer gear can handle up to 130F at a minimum. If you're worried, just point a fan at it.

Not in the way you're probably thinking, which I assume is like in a Windows-y kind of way.

Finding an exploitable escalation of privileges in Linux is rare, but unpatched machines get hacked all the time, but the world of worms, and such is kind of gone.

The way most end-user machines get compromised these days is by supply chain attacks, undiscovered zero-day exploits, user error, and social engineering. Groups that discover zero-days usually keep it close the vest, and they don't get found for long periods of time after they've been out in the wild.

The way most corporate machines get attacked is social engineering, supply chain, and zero-days. Mostly crypto mining schemes and enterprise-level ransoms for data.

All the Windows botnets you hear about out there are largely unpatched machines exposed to the internet in various stupid ways that groups prey on to take control of.

Edit: Forgot about leaked secrets. Lots of companies get hit from plaintext secrets that get out in the wild via various stupid means.

Total bullshit

I believe you're talking about the challenges discussed here: https://blogs.kde.org/2024/09/04/brightness-controls-for-all-your-displays/

If both monitors are messing with your sensors, you may just want to disable adaptive brightness and manually control it. They don't seem to have a workaround for it as of yet.