well fuck

… time to dust off that old cursed kernel cmdline argument that removes a range of physical memory from the allocator I guess, there’s no way I’m buying DDR4 DIMMs now

photo of a screen with failing memtest86+, showing a stuck-1 bit somewhere in 128GB of DDR4 memory on a Ryzen 5900X desktop
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