diff --git a/.github/workflows/test.yml b/.github/workflows/test.yml
index 89576b763d..190d85fd51 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/test.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/test.yml
@@ -48,9 +48,11 @@ jobs:
     - name: Test dtype with Python emulator
       run: DEBUG=2 PYTHON=1 python3 test/test_dtype.py
     - name: Test ops with Python emulator
-      run: DEBUG=2 PYTHON=1 python3 -m pytest test/test_ops.py -k "not (test_split or test_simple_cumsum or test_cumsum or test_einsum or test_dot_1d or test_big_gemm or test_broadcastdot or test_multidot or test_var_axis or test_std_axis or test_broadcast_full or test_broadcast_partial or test_simple_conv3d or test_dilated_conv_transpose2d or test_simple_conv_transpose3d or test_large_input_conv2d or test_maxpool2d_simple or test_maxpool2d_bigger_stride or test_avgpool2d or test_cat or test_scaled_product_attention or test_scaled_product_attention_causal)"
+      run: DEBUG=2 PYTHON=1 python3 -m pytest test/test_ops.py -k "not (test_split or test_simple_cumsum or test_cumsum or test_einsum or test_dot or test_dot_1d or test_big_gemm or test_broadcastdot or test_multidot or test_var_axis or test_std_axis or test_broadcast_full or test_broadcast_partial or test_simple_conv3d or test_dilated_conv_transpose2d or test_simple_conv_transpose3d or test_large_input_conv2d or test_maxpool2d or test_maxpool2d_simple or test_maxpool2d_bigger_stride or test_avgpool2d or test_cat or test_scaled_product_attention or test_scaled_product_attention_causal)" --durations=20
     - name: Test symbolic with Python emulator
       run: PYTHONPATH=. PYTHON=1 python3 test/test_symbolic_ops.py
+    - name: test_linearizer_failures with Python emulator
+      run: PYTHONPATH=. PYTHON=1 python3 -m pytest -rA test/test_linearizer_failures.py::TestLinearizerFailures::test_failure_1
 
   linter:
     name: Linters
diff --git a/tinygrad/runtime/ops_python.py b/tinygrad/runtime/ops_python.py
index 320f17e319..ea0e4cc530 100644
--- a/tinygrad/runtime/ops_python.py
+++ b/tinygrad/runtime/ops_python.py
@@ -203,7 +203,7 @@ class PythonProgram:
 
 class PythonCompiler(Compiler):
   linearizer_opts = LinearizerOptions("METAL", has_tensor_cores=True) if getenv("EMULATE_METAL") else \
-    (LinearizerOptions("HIP", has_tensor_cores=True) if getenv("EMULATE_HIP") else LinearizerOptions())
+    (LinearizerOptions("HIP", has_tensor_cores=True) if getenv("EMULATE_HIP") else LinearizerOptions("PYTHON"))
   def render(self, name:str, uops:List[UOp]) -> str:
     lops = [(u.uop, u.dtype, [uops.index(v) for v in u.vin], u.arg) for u in uops]
     return base64.b64encode(pickle.dumps(lops)).decode()