We can try to avoid bringing this stuff up until it becomes ridiculous and impacts our business too much. A couple of weeks ago it appeared as if we were hacked into while using Ubuntu. Simultaneously our hard drive appeared to start failing after a stalled update and our keyboard started typing extra keys. Everything was tried using our main motherboard to fix the hard drive in order to get our Ubuntu working again but nothing worked, utilizing multiple tools across multiple Windows OS’s and multiple Ubuntu Live installations. We eventually gave it up for a dead hard drive and put it away.

These drives are over 300% their msrps right now because of the AI bubble, making it impactful to get another one and a bad time to have one fail. We were already in the process of setting up a streaming version of Windows on another SSD we had and hopped over to that, to which we’ve been using it to even connect to the internet. Over a couple of weeks, our operating systems and motherboard have been shutting down for seemingly no reason. Everytime we tried to attach our mics/cameras and set up ableton to record live looping or attempt to set-up streaming our computer has been shutting down and restarting for literally no reason.

Today, after troubleshooting, we found our power supply fan was not turning on, which would cause the power supply to overheat and shut down, especially the more power the motherboard needed to operate. This is an indicator that the power supply itself is failing. So we grab an old power supply and try to hook it up realizing we’re missing some cables – we end up ordering cables and a new fan just in case we can fix the old power supply.

Right after ordering this stuff we decided to look up if the power supply can be hacked through the motherboard – which it can. We then, after having suspicions our motherboard firmware itself was corrupted, set-up an old motherboard from an old computer set-up. The power supply was still not functioning but we decided to plug in the “dead” ssd to see what would happen.

It worked perfectly fine, and we were instantly able to install a fresh copy of Ubuntu on it after not being able to even format the disk for two weeks.

After figuring this out, then setting back up the new and likely corrupted motherboard, Ubuntu pulled up fine and it’s in fact what we’re typing this out on right now. Before updating we flashed the BIOS of the motherboard to reset it’s firmware and a couple of power cycles later, the fan to the power supply now appears to be working somewhat normally again. We haven’t checked to see if Windows is still shutting down for no reason but but that’s the next project.

The message here is this: There’s an energy system, likely using “military grade” AI to hack into peoples/civilians computers to now attempt to at least convince people their hardware is failing if not literally destroying hardware. Also to make certain software look worse – and push people to use software they likely have easier access too. This is not a simple virus. This is corrupting firmware – the seat of the hardware itself. If you’ve had hardware seemingly fail recently, it’s very likely fine and you need to look into your hardware’s firmware/motherboard and try to resuscitate it. There are large sums of money at stake, and the only thing to do would be to throw out or recycle whatever stopped working. If something is intentionally making it appear these things don’t work, they could collect them after the fact and get them working without the original owner even knowing about it, after they were forced to pay for replacements.

#StopTheGremlins #StopTheHeist