How about https://www.tumblr.com/cute-catts/766377029924962304/this-keeps-him-busy-for-the-rest-of-the-night

Ooh I didn’t know that KDE has touchpad gesture support now, I’ll need to give that a go next time I try linux

Yep! The Ryzen 5 7640U. It’s never immediately, it generally takes several minutes, maybe just bringing up a Tumblr page with a video and letting it loop for several minutes might hopefully do it, though, I’ve had a crash when Tumblr wasn’t the active tab so you can multitask if you’re fine with suddenly getting booted.

I was using Firefox. I don’t expect Tumblr to be well coded, but at most it should be able to freeze a single browser tab, if a tab can crash the entire desktop then that’s a greater issue. I haven’t had issues with tumblrs infinite scroll on other desktop situations, and while the crash happens at random I’ve had it happen within 30 seconds of opening a site if there’s a video first thing. The dmesg logs indicate that the GPU driver gets upset about something and resets itself at the time of the crash.

Trying the Firefox flatpak, or not installing the nonfree drivers didn’t make any change for me.

When looking at past reports of the crash I’ve seen some people report that things are fine on chrome but I’m not willing to make the change to see if that helps haha. It’s not a massive deal but it bugs me that I have to remember what websites to ignore and I want an expensive laptop to be a stress free experience so I’ll stick with windows and maybe give Linux another try every year or so to see if they can tempt me over yet.

I’ve mostly tried Fedora 40, I gave it another quick go after 41 with no improvement. Given that most other people haven’t experienced it, and I’ve only had this issue with Tumblr specifically and no other website, I’m guessing that it must be an uncommon codec.

I’ve had one for a few months now and it works really well. The only issue that I’ve had was that I expected Linux to run well on it, but it seems like AMDs Linux support has been overstated, and gnome would crash entirely when browsing certain websites like Tumblr, I assume because of some poorly supported video format. Everything runs fine on windows and it’s been a solid laptop so far. Obviously it’s not going to be the best for gaming, but the integrated graphics will handle lighter workloads fine and I’m hoping that it’ll save me money in the long run from the much cheaper cost of repairing vs having to buy a new laptop after 5 years.

Thanks for teaching me about LiveSync, not being able to sync my notes with mobile without an obsidian account has been annoying, but none of the web based interfaces look at nice or as usable as obsidian. Being able to sync everything between desktops and mobile will be really handy.