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  • Best explanation I’ve come up with (or maybe I’ve heard somewhere?) for Arnie’s accent is that it’s a cover for unusual behavior if he needs to blend in (vs blasting everyone in sight). If he sounded like a local, he would be expected to act like a local, even down to ‘modern’ lingo and pop culture references of the time/place he’s been sent to.

    With his Austrian accent, it’s immediately obvious that he’s “not from around here” which would disarm a lot of suspicion around any odd behavior.

    This comes back around in T2 when he’s introduced as “Uncle Bob”. It’s obviously a cover for the relationship but the accent somewhat masks most unusual behavior. Doesn’t talk much? Perhaps he isn’t strong on English. Doesn’t pick up on social ques? He’s just not from here. Drinks motor oil instead of tequila? Wait, what!?



  • That’s a good point and something I haven’t really considered but will keep that in mind moving forward - that’s part of my problem is not really being aware of what already exists or the most suitable method (or for different distros).

    That’s what ended up getting me into trouble on Bazzite when I was attempting to use Fedora documentation thinking it’s similar and broke boot trying to mess with fstab. Only recently found out why that didn’t work!










  • A bad PSU will usually result in boot problems or general instability - applications or OS crashing, bsod etc particularly when power demand spikes (gaming, heavy disk use etc).

    Assuming you’re not running out of RAM, this sounds like a software issue. It could be drivers as others mentioned, some background software interfering or perhaps even malware. As a just in case: have you fiddled with process priorities in task manager?

    If you’ve got a spare hdd, you could swap that in and do a clean install of your OS. If the issues remain, it’s a hardware problem, if they disappear then it’s something software or config in your current install