ah ok, different issue then

thank you!

i didn’t try that but does your audio loop the last ~second too? (all my monitors are external)

Bugs in the kernel are pretty rare in my experience
i chalked it up to some kind of optimization that doesn’t agree with my computer but that’s just my head-canon

I think it’s more likely that the bug was somewhere in KDE Plasma. Kubuntu’s version should be older than the one on Cachy. On top of that Kubuntu has their own patches for KDE
interesting, distrowatch says plasma-desktop “6.4.5” for kubuntu 25.10 and “6.5.3” for cachy 251129 (the version i likely was on) so it is a possibility. (plus i feel like it started after an update)

dmesg
i didn’t know about it so i didn’t check

My searches led me to find that the Ryzen 5600 silicon had degraded just enough to be unstable.
interesting but my cpu is the same on kubuntu so i doubt degradation is causing the issue

i did try the LTS kernel but to no avail. i kept my fingers off the rest as i had no idea what i was doing.

so it’s kind of like the opposite of a swap file

thanks, that made it clearer!

thanks! but it’s unclear how to tell it lives in RAM…

Filesystem      Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
tmpfs           1,6G  2,2M  1,6G   1% /run
tmpfs           7,8G  1,5G  6,3G  19% /dev/shm
tmpfs           5,0M  8,0K  5,0M   1% /run/lock
tmpfs           1,0M     0  1,0M   0% /run/credentials/systemd-journald.service
tmpfs           1,0M     0  1,0M   0% /run/credentials/systemd-resolved.service
tmpfs           7,8G  236M  7,5G   3% /tmp
tmpfs           1,6G   11M  1,6G   1% /run/user/1000

it lists multiple tmpfs:

tmpfs on /run type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,size=1616504k,mode=755,inode64)  
tmpfs on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,inode64)  
tmpfs on /run/lock type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,size=5120k,inode64)  
tmpfs on /run/credentials/systemd-journald.service type tmpfs (ro,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,nosymfollow,size=1024k,nr_inodes=1024,mode=700,inode64,noswap)  
tmpfs on /run/credentials/systemd-resolved.service type tmpfs (ro,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,nosymfollow,size=1024k,nr_inodes=1024,mode=700,inode64,noswap)  
**tmpfs on /tmp type tmpfs (rw,noatime,inode64)** (i am guessing it's this one)  
tmpfs on /run/user/1000 type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,size=1616500k,nr_inodes=404125,mode=700,uid=1000,gid=1000,inode64)  
tmpfs on /run/snapd/ns type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,size=1616504k,mode=755,inode64)  

i hope these are all as konsole doesn’t seem to have a search function in kubuntu, why?

thanks for the reply! does that mean it occupies 7.7gib of the 9.57gib RAM currently being used? or just the 218mib?