Hello!

I'm a professional software developer (Web: Rails, Phoenix, React) and have limited hardware skills but have always found tinkering with it enjoyable. While an undergrad I enjoyed CompE courses at least as much as my CompSci course and probably should have changed majors.

What brings me here is that I bricked my Lenovo T480 running a BIOS update in Ubuntu 22. The update hung and I force restarted after waiting for 22 hours for the update to complete. I have made a backup of the "corrupted" BIOS using a CH341A SPI programmer and SOIC8 test clip but that's...