<p>i have figured out what this issue was <a href="https://mastodon.social/@whitequark/113818757427551245" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">mastodon.social/@whitequark/11</span><span class="invisible">3818757427551245</span></a></p><p>it turns out that merely loading nvidia.ko and enabling RTD3 (without having the driver loaded in X11, or any screen or device in the configuration!!) is sufficient for electron based apps to do *something* with the nvidia device, and because RTD3 seems fucked in TU117M, it would hang until, presumably, the PCIe completion timeout</p><p>computers were a mistake</p>