I've got a ThinkPad X220 and I've been a bit lax about patching the UEFI/BIOS. But recently this SMM "Incursion" Attack has been getting a bit of publicity and it's spurred me to try to patch it. It's worth noting that this bug is not specific to Lenovo, but …

I recently switched my laptop over from Debian Stretch to Arch Linux.

Debian is still my go to distribution for any server, but I felt like I was in a bit of a no man's land with my laptop. Debian stable (currently Jessie) is rock solid and reliable but I …

There was an email posted to the PLUG mailing lists recently about a user that had run rm -rf / and bricked their laptop. It was a fascinating story and I lost a good hour or so reading through that thread, the GitHub issues and responses etc...

The exact specifics might …