Anyone got any better wording? This is the dialog I was going to add to gnome-firmware, asking users with updatable (but not supported) devices to upload the device list to the #LVFS so we can nag the vendor. The expander is default closed, but opens up to show the full JSON.
I tried upgrading to the latest version of the #system76#coreboot firmware, but didn't fix Thunderbird.
By the way, @system76, why aren't firmware upgrades available on #LVFS?
The system76-firmware tool isn't even packaged for Fedora, so I had to build it from sources to find that my Lemur Pro was missing the 2024-02-20 update.
So it seems my Thinkpad T14 AMD Gen 1 is bricked somehow. No idea how it happened. LEDs and fan are working but I don' t get anything on the screen (internal and external).
Disconnecting batteries and using the reset switch doesn't help.
It seems like these are the typical signs for a bricked BIOS and I'm thinking about trying to reflash the SPI NOR on the mainboard.
Oh dear, why do such things happen when warranty has expired...
Ok, the laptop is finally up and running again. But what a journey!
I'm still not hundred percent sure what happened, but my guess is that #kdediscover (with integrated support for #lvfs) initiated a #bios update without me noticing the day before. And as I was in a hurry and distracted, I accidentally hard-reset the machine during the update that ran on the next boot and therefore corrupting the flash content.
I guess I will disable LVFS as update source in Discover for now...
Over the last two years I've done two great talks at #OSFC about the #LVFS that I show to vendors all the time. If you're confused about how the LVFS actually works, what the process of "getting firmware updates" is, or don't understand the supply chain, the two videos are:
If you are a #Linux user, as a caveat emptor, despite #DasKeyboard advertising Linux support for the 6 Professional #keyboard, they do not support Linux (or MacOS) for firmware updates.
From support:
"The firmware updater can only be run from a Windows computer or VM. I'm sorry we do not have an installer program that will run on a Linux distro."
This doesn't mean it won't work out of box, but you won't have access to bug fixes that might impact you.