A gay day for me. I left off last night after running memtest on my son's laptop. It quickly showed errors. I knew it could
output commands to pass to the linux kernel to not allocate bad areas of memory.
So added that to /etc/default/grub and re-ran update-grub. But then the laptop just wouldn't boot
So I started this morning by booting into a live linux image on a usb key. Deleted the badram option from /boot/grub/grub.cfg and the laptop booted fine. Then spent an hour trying various formats to see what the deal is but it is like the 'badram' option is just no longer working at all. But you can add it to the linux kernel boot params so I did that. The machine booted fine, but also listed in the logs that the option 'badram' was unknown and ignored
The whole time I've got claude.ai going in overtime giving me stuff to try, but none it it works. Ended up switching to manually using the memmap linux boot param option to manually reserve the bad areas and everything is fine.
I was supposed to take my son to get a bottom jaw expander thing installed on his, well bottom jaw. He already had the top done, google "palate expander" if you want to know the details. That appointment was today, but I was busy messing with the laptop so sent the wife.
Well they get there, the lady that will be gluing in the bottom expander commented the whole time about how this one looked different, maybe they changed the design, etc. Once it is all glued in and nice and tight, she realizes that the screw we are supposed to turn everyday to expand the expander appears to be frozen or at least not moving. So she then had to chisel all this stuff off his month which took another 30 minutes

They said they'd call us once they figure out what when wrong.

I really can't believe they installed stuff without first checking if it even worked. Just glad this wasn't heart replacement surgery or an engine rebuild
That said, this is literally just a screw so don't see how it just "doesn't turn" so it was probably fine anyway
