I'm one of the users James mentioned early on; I don't know how to
capture kernel output when I'm greeted with a completely-locked-up or
already-rebooted machine.  If it's hardware, I don't see what the kernel
could do anyway.

I've tried all the tricks mentioned here, when applicable.  (My BIOS
doesn't expose anything like "typical current idle", etc.)

The only way I've been able to keep this system stable is to keep it
busy.  I run BOINC and donate some of this shark-style swim-or-die CPU
to medical research.  There are some nice settings for how the cores get
used, and according to htop, tasks get shuffled around to all cores, if
that matters.  I went with using at most 50% of 25% of the cores
(figures I pulled out of ...thin air).  That keeps my load average
around 2 when I'm doing nothing, but whatever - it's for a good cause.

My CPU is an AMD Ryzen 7 1800X with 8 or 16 cores depending on how one
counts, and keeping them from getting bored has, so far, let me get back
to rebooting on my terms (upgrades) rather than at random.

This comes up as a Linux problem, but it sure smells like a hardware
defect to me.  In my mind, all the self-monitoring and user-spying and
background-indexing and auto-downloading that Windows does happens to
mask this problem for most people.  (Plus who would think twice about a
randomly-hanging or -rebooting Windows box?)  Has anyone run *BSD or
FreeDOS or something else which would allow a Ryzen to get bored for
hours/days?

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