JayDee

That lines up with it being right next to the MCU. I greatly appreciate the assistance! I'll get this into my notes in case it comes in handy.

Greatly appreciate the help! I will add that to my documentation list. I think i'll give dumping the ROM a shot if nothing else winds up working.

So I think the answer was found by a couple of the others, but I will still follow through with other photos.

Here's a (if only slightly) clearer image of the IC code

And here is a zoomed-out shot of the entire board. You can see the tiny IC in question to the left of the MCU with the '56/1.10' sticker on it.

We call this hyperbolic dark humor. It's meant to be irrational and to sound unhinged. That's where the humor lies.

I will grab a better photo when I get home in 12-ish hours.

The code is 4A081 8444QC as far as I can tell. I didn't get any matches for an 8-pin IC of that code unfortunately.

Bolstered with Cheddar cheese

And breadbowls for everyone!

Mostly fact-checking. I will absolutely still throw out wrong facts and find out minutes later that they're wrong.

~~Juan's been around since before gen z could speak. That one's millenial humor that gen z adopted and extrapolated.~~

Looks like it popped up in 2015, so not as old as I remember. ~~Still can be argued that it's too old to be gen z meme.~~ the meme juan was 2020, though, and originally posted to Instagram, so it's genz

Being repeatedly stabbed in the flesh to leave a permanent mark on yourself that signifies something important to you - that's metal at face value.

Plenty of people hold little-to-no value in their skin being 'clean', and so a symbol is more value for them than blank flesh.

It's also nowhere near as big of a detractor as it used to be. Nowhere near the same amount of discrimination over tatoos. Plus, they're usually pretty easy to cover.

Overall, who gives a fuck if someone posts a pic on their social media of a new ink? It's barely a footnote in folks' days, why would we care?

We actually had hit a peak on water consupmtion per houshold. I think it wouldn't be farfetched to see we would have hit an energy consumption peak had the internet not been invented, and that we would have hit a cap even then if LLMs and crypto hadn't become widespread. We just keep coming up with stupid reasons to burn electricity!

It's not really peaceful i'd say. society's infrastructure needs maintainers. The survivors of population decline would witness famines again, important civil structures collapsing, medication shortages, and a variety of other terrible woes. It's not nuclear fallout or anything, but it's not peaceful by any means either.

Seems that there's some kind of issue with standardization of markdown. Yours looks like just html tags on mine.