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After a particularly annoying update today (sopuli.xyz)

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 5 months ago

Last week, I tried to install a BIOS update on my work laptop, but the UI didn't give me feedback, so I thought, maybe they locked down BIOS updates or something. I didn't actually try very hard and forgot about it.

This week, Monday morning, I couldn't log into my laptop anymore, for unrelated reasons apparently.
Only real thing I could try was a reboot. That would decide, if I had to go to the office to get support.

So, I trigger the reboot and a wild BIOS update appears. Step 1/6, 0%, let's fucking go.

And yeah, that shit took a while. I was scrolling through Lemmy or something on my phone, and saw out of the corner of my eye that it had reached 100%, then power cycled.
Finally, I thought. Nope. Step 2/6, 0%. Fuck me.

It took about half an hour in total, but I had never done a BIOS update on this laptop, and the last BIOS update on my previous work laptop ended up frying the hard drive, unrecoverably. So, that half hour felt like an eternity.

Thankfully, it eventually rebooted and everything worked, including the login.