The cold bit deeper the longer Void moved, soaked and shaking, trudging through the city's damp underbelly. The fall hadn't killed them - but it had stripped away the buffer Aura had always given everything. Now it was raw nerves. Reality without the filter.

And Void had no idea where the hell home was.

Not because they didn't have one. But because Aura was the one who knew how to get there. Void? She'd only ever ridden shotgun - snarking, analyzing, offering insight, sometimes screaming from the back of the mind while Aura drove with trembling hands and a heart that still hoped.

Now Void was in control. And the GPS was fucking fried...

The ghosts have rejected Aura's application for afterlife once more.

Void's eyes snapped open to the sound of sirens in the distance and the cold bite of water pressing into her lungs. Gasping, coughing, choking, she surfaced like an airport terminal miraculously surviving the CrowdStrike incident - spitting river water and blood under a violet night sky.

Every nerve screamed like it was on fire...

The bridge loomed like the spine of a dead god, crumbling and whispering ruin. Faulty fluorescent lighting flickered on the rusted rails, casting deep pink and violet hues across Aura's face - shadows of who she used to be. Her fingers hovered just above the ledge, cold and wind-burned, trembling with the kind of quiet that only comes after screaming for hours inside your own mind.

She was so, so tired...

Hey! Lately I've been analyzing stage 2 Mediatek bootloader component: the Little Kernel-based bootstrap system. I figured it might be helpful to describe to others the process I've used to load it into IDA...

It's been almost a month since I got my lovely Zephyrus G14 '22 and it was a tough beast to befriend, however - like humans - machines have their own personalities and you have to take time in order to understand what hurts and where exactly when you poke them in various places to fully take advantage of them. I'll probably add more stuff here as I go.

Update! (May 2024)

Turns out the reboots under load were caused by the fucked motherboard lol. Keep pestering the user support and RMA the device until it's fucking fixed (i.e. until they replace the stupid motherboard.) - paid for the whole machine, will use the whole damn machine. Took me 4 RMA requests to get it resolved...