Updating the kernel fixed this for me. Thanks JoseStefan for easy instructions. I think one of the hardest parts of trouble shooting this is that it only seems to happen on certain hardware configurations, which means that initially I thought it was a hardware glitch of some kind due to it not happening on any other computers with almost the same software setup.
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