final edit: You want real logs instead? add this to your kernel command: drm.panic_screen=kmsg
Kinda funny, kinda neat.
I have no idea what the QR-code might reveal (I could not read it from this picture), so I pixelised it just to be sure.
FWIW I know exactly what happened and did not panic. To reproduce, boot your device with init=/bin/sh, then type exit.
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The picture above is generated by Drm panic which is part of the kernel itself, or maybe a separate module. The data in the QR code is the kmsg log.
Not systemd, which wasn’t running when that happened.
And it’s been around for years; I guess I haven’t had a kernel panic in a long time.
It’s a subculture phenomenon, and lemmy linux is a subculture of a subculture, so it’s more intense.
I’ve been a moderator on some linux reddits in the past. And the less users there were in the sub, the more negativity, rudeness, gatekeeping and other toxicity was there. But ofc what I say is just an opinion based on my subjective experience so idk.
The linux kernel bsod is even younger than that, august 2024 iirc.