Most BIOS updates come with a firmware file and a .exe to flash it

Sadly in my case, iy doesn't.

I think they're saying the Windows update file will contain the firmware binary.

You can find Windows update files here: https://www.catalog.update.microsoft.com/Search.aspx?q=Acer

But you'll probably have to check each update and see if the "Supported Hardware IDs" match some sort of UUID in dmidecode. I'm not sure if those are supposed to match though.

Then there are some generic firmware update tools for Linux that might work, or might brick your laptop.

Not sure if it affects that, but you can disable Alcohol ads on the Google Ad center.

Is edid/sony.bin your new EDID? Does it revert back if you remove drm.edid_firmware all together?

Also, do you mind sharing your EDID? I had to edit mine to get VRR to work, so maybe there's something invalid in yours. It does contain serial numbers though if that's a problem.

Also a solution: Use Wayland, it'll probably break other things, and Nvidia support is only just getting there; but it's multi monitor support is amazing, so it should fix that issue. So maybe it's worth a try?

but I can't figure out which of the "0000:00:whatever's" correlate to my Bluetooth card

lspci will list your PCI devices and their ID, but if it's a combo WiFi & Bluetooth card, they usually use PCIe for WiFi and USB for Bluetooth.

This might be just me, but I prefer remembering what the keys actually do:

• R - Raw keyboard
• F - Free mem
• E - End everything
• I - kIll everything
• B - reBoot

Also good to know:

• S - Sync drives
• U - Unmount drives
• O - power Off
• C - Crash

I've run kill -9 and similar heaps before, but weirdly this comment reminded me of this: https://youtu.be/Fow7iUaKrq4

Nah, bots normally have a little robot character next to their name.

I'm probably wrong, but NVRAM suggests that there should be some way to clear it. (Clearing the CMOS might if you can't do it in software)

Haha I'm Aussie, but your drinks are pretty cool!

It might run a bit cooler if its not always boosting

I've heard that amd_pstate is a lot more power efficient (thus cooler) compared to acpi.

Like I believe amd_pstate has a lot more states than acpi-cpufreq so it gives Linux much more granular control over the CPU's performance.

Plus having to basically rely on a built-in app database/store to easily install apps

Someone else has mentioned that all GUI 'stores' suck, and in my experience that's true. I usually find things either from Google, suggestions, or apt search.

Kinda stinks to me, and not being able to simply download an installer from a website.

I also thought I might mention that standalone Linux executables do exist, I believe ookla speedtest publish one, and additionally AppImages are really cool in that it's a container the app runs in that you can just double click.

and having the program, whatever program, up and running reliably within a minute

I've only had issues with this when I've done something dodgy and I know that I've done it, when it's an app in the middle of development, or snap packages. Anything installed using the distro's repo, Flatpak, or AppImage, has always worked. I still use Windows for study, and I'm pretty sure it takes longer on Windows to go from download to app running.