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HP bricks ProBook laptops with bad BIOS delivered via automatic updates — many users face black screen after Windows pushes new firmware (www.tomshardware.com)

On May 26, a user on HP's support forums reported that a forced, automatic BIOS update had bricked their HP ProBook 455 G7 into an unusable state. Subsequently, other users have joined the thread to sound off about experiencing the same issue....

madscience ,

Fwupd is a pull model, not a pushed automatic update. Who the fuck doesn’t read release notes and do due diligence before running fwupd?

madscience ,

Mf’ers act like they forgot about zstandatd

madscience ,

Every device had it's own device tree and kernel with custom driver's, binary blinds, and system software. All of it runs beside the closed source modern os

madscience ,

There's nothing like uefi between the os and the hardware

madscience ,

I ducking love you guys

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