Today was spent reviving my suicided Ubuntu partition to access the drawings I was puting together for my thesis report. Turned out to be easier than I feared, following a dead lead, I came across an error message I could Google, and loo and behold, ther people had had the very same issues as me. Turned out an unfulfilled dependency caused apt to fail, and Ubuntu kinda depends on having the package manager check for updates on boot, hence why it would end up flickering and freezing on boot. Feels nice to have a fully functional computer once more-