From a frozen Telegram photo to the Linux graphics stack
1. The fullscreen photo that froze a laptop It was Sunday morning, I had a fever, and my plans extended no further than tea and feeling sorry for myself; troubleshooting a GPU failure was not on the list. I opened a photo from Telegram Web in Brave and switched it to fullscreen. The display froze. After failed attempts to recover it, I forced the Framework Laptop to restart. A TTY later showed Vulkan selecting my AMD Radeon 780M, followed by two warnings about dynamic-buffer limits whose timestamp placed them more than ten minutes after the next boot began....