Cool, hopefully modders can take advantage of this, it'd be cool to see what kinda stuff folk can come up with.

Demons.

(I feel like i have to clarify, so just in case: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jhK2ev_O-pc)

To stress-test your gpu you can use Furmark. https://www.techpowerup.com/download/furmark/

Simply download it, install and launch it and crank the settings up nice and high.

Leave it run for an hour orso, and if Furmark crashes then your gpu is probably toast.

No problem, have a nice day :)

In that case, your keyboard is most likely broken. Perhaps you could still have it fixed under warranty? You can enter the laptop serial number on https://support.hp.com to check if the warranty is still active.

Ah no worries mate, im happy to help :)

Have you tried F3, Escape and Delete?

And, just curious, how do you log in to ubuntu if your keys don't work?

1. Make sure to power down your laptop.
2. press the power button, then mash F2 till you see the bios screen popup.

(Sometimes the bios key is F10 or F12, so if F2 doesn't work just redo the steps but try those keys instead.)

3. Once you're in the bios, you can use the arrow keys to navigate. Assuming the arrow keys work, you can navigate to a a section with the name "security" or something similair.

(If you press the arrow keys and nothing happens, your keyboard is broken.)

4. Once you are there you should see an option to "set an administrators password". click on that and press a key that you know doesn't work. if nothing is inputted into the password field then the keyboard is definently broken.

5. to exit the password input field simply press esc, and then you can navigate to exit, and select exit discarding changes.

If you got to step 5 and everything worked then it is definently an issue with the OS.

Honestly OP, weird keyboard issues, especially on a laptop are very often hardware failures.

As for driver downloading software, Linux works far different from Windows in this sense. Linux drivers usually come packaged with the kernel and are otherwise downloaded through the repository of your relevant distribution, so you don't need any third party software.

You could boot into the bios and test the keys there. If they still don't work then its a hardware issue. Do you know how to get into the bios?

Edit: Also OP, if you do have issues in the future, please post them on https://lemmy.world/c/techsupport as this isn't really the right community.

I don't use my phone for NFC payments, but my bank has an app that can handle nfc payments. You could check to see if your bank has something similair.

Physical media is dying a slow and painful death. Sad to see really. I'd say to make a fuss, but most people don't seem to care.

Honestly, No disc + always online DRM is making me turn to piracy more and more. I want to be able to buy a game and just have a permanent offline copy of it. is that really too much to ask?

Im always impressed by how well Yatzhee's format holds up. Over a decade later his reviews are still really funny, while also getting to the point. One of those og content creators that has aged really well imo.