• village604@adultswim.fanEnglish
    1 hour

    I really hope there’s a class action over this. Their software breaking your hardware isn’t a failure of the device and should be a recall instead of a warranty repair.

  • Madzielle@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    14 minutes

    I have one of these. Ive been manually shutting it down because it wants to update, I never update. But evenutally, the machine just pushes it through anyway on start.

    I swear to gawd if it breaks my legion I will be pissed. It’s the most expensive single item I own.

  • altkey (he\him)@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    11 minutes

    I wonder how regular users even get to know there’s a bios update. Were they nudged by win11 downloading it for them? Did they have any agency in the process?

  • Brem@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2 hours

    Checks notes

    1. DO NOT update anything unless completely necessary

    ^Oh, that’s rule no. 2

    • iamthetot@piefed.caEnglish
      6 minutes

      What about security updates? Those kinda work right up until they crucially don’t.

    • Broadfern@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2 hours

      Maybe. I know someone who wiped their Legion clean and installed an Arch-based OS and still had the BIOS-brick issue. No idea if they managed to fix it themselves yet but it’s not purely a Windows problem.

      • Beacon@fedia.io
        2 hours

        Yeah BIOS use happens at startup before the OS starts getting involved. While it’s potentially possible that the bug was only in the windows updater, it’s equally possible that it’s present in both, or just Linux. Any OS is equally as able to install a faulty BIOS update.