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In Nordic folklore, there’s a concept for a household spirit (nisse/tomte) that may do mischievous tricks if you don’t treat it appropriately. If mathematics can’t solve this puzzle, it has to be a computer tomte that isn’t happy with your taste in RGB or how infrequently you run software updates.
Or you haven't poured enough milk and porridge into your computer. Depends on the tomte
If you see sparks and smoke coming from the computer, you can be pretty sure you’re doing something wrong.