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soundstoday at 4:03 PM1 replyview on HN

In today's blog post, we are all studying the enshittification of the BIOS.

In general, I agree with you that the bigger laptop makers can repair laptops and do an amazing job.

What we're all here for though is 2026. No big company is coming to fix your machines, even big companies are waiting 30+ days for parts availability from the big company bros they bought from. If you're a consumer, forget about it.

"Many of them are Ubuntu-certified as well." I'm calling BS here. Dell and HP hide their limited, paltry Linux offerings in the back of their website. Define your use of "many."

Now we're down to the BIOS. Today's blog post encountered a failed BIOS update, and takes Framework to task for it. Some of the support team at Framework are really cool and would probably have detected this customer is https://xkcd.com/806/

This time he got the strict script follower for customer support. I hope it blows up on Framework.


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jakzurrtoday at 7:35 PM

omg, thanks so much!