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My PC randomly restarts with no error screen. There is no rhyme or reason to when this happens other than I must be actively using the PC. I can be using something low stress or high stress and the likelihood of this issue is the same.

GPU: Nvidia 3060
CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 3700x
I am not overclocking.
This problem persists on Windows 10, 11, and Linux Mint.
My PC is not overheating.
I've tested the RAM with Windows Memory Diagnostics and memtest and both said the RAM was fine.
I have updated the BIOS.
I have replaced the PSU, it is the correct type of PSU.
I have uninstalled all the nvidia drivers, I have reinstalled all the nvidia drivers.
I have uninstalled WSL.
Virus scan comes back clean.
I have replaced my surge protector.
I have cleaned the GPU and put it in a different slot.
I have ran DISM, sfc, etc.
I have reinstalled windows multiple times - for a bit this seemed to help but it would start doing it again.
SSD appears healthy with checks like crystal disk

Nothing shows in the reliability checker beyond "Windows did not shut down correctly"
Event viewer offers event 18

Error Source: Machine Check Exception
Error Type: Cache Hierarchy Error

Processor APIC ID is variable between reports

One of the frustrations of a continuously deteriorating-due-to-chronic-pain-and-age brain is that you are not only terrible at organizing things, you're terrible at finding things as well.

Finding things you were looking at just minutes before.

I also need to re-read everything I type a few dozen times and I still find missing letters and whole missing words after hitting publish. I know people with things like Alzheimer's and it's certainly not the same thing. But here I am, the only new memories I'm able to make is how much Nova Scotia's healthcare system sucks now.

Anyway, both of these photos were in the wrong folders and it took me ten minutes to remember which ones they were.

Miyazaki-ken isn't a very well populated area and all of the young people there head off to the bigger cities in Japan as soon as they're able to. Fukuoka seems to be the main destination but if they can get to Osaka or Tokyo, so much the better.

Familiar story.

Because of the low population of young people a lot the downtown areas was always struggling on the weekends. Public events, assuming the budget was there for it, were common on Sundays. Small stuff. A local band with stars in their eyes playing a gig outside of the bookstore. A local dance school showing their stuff. A DJ in a clothing store.

Why this never gets done of here in Halifax I have no idea. It's a similarly sized city with all the same problems. Only big events are allowed. Probably because they want utterly unnecessary cops crawling around and acting like World War 3 will start the second someone starts to, you know, be happy and enjoying themselves.

I'm just a fellow who has erratic tastes that trend toward the old and sometimes bizarre. I will talk your ear off about house music, vaporwave, some games, and esoteric mediums. I also love rare re-releases of games, and oddities/unreleased things too.

The above is one of those more unusual things I own -- a modern day minidisc, of a vapor-ambient album: //DLM's 5 AM in Japan. Minidiscs themselves are very fascinating to me, as a (in my opinion) better form of optical media. Resistant to datarot, sturdier than a CD, and look cooler too. The limiting factor of the medium was the fact that until Hi-MD, a format that only manifested in Japan and maybe parts of the EU, minidiscs had a very small amount of music storage space. We're talking 80 minutes of music at max audio quality, with the other encoders sucking pretty bad for the longest time (Thank you, Sony). Now-a-days, through the efforts of very talented and determined individuals, the encodes are more efficient, and sound way better, letting you cram close to 1:30+ onto a disc without sounding like it just stepped out of static hell.

I think one of the things I love about minidiscs, outside of the above, though, is just how.. real(?) everything feels. The click of the device popping open, the clunk of it closing, and the physical vibration in my hand as the thing spins up to be read. Also the fact it has a headphone jack so I can use my better headphones on it instead of my bluetooth ones. It's all very tactile and analog, which is very nice.