The important thing here is awareness and helping anyone affected, not trying to get Framework fined for a tiny sum.

Thanks for linking the documentation! To be clear, when I wrote "header", I meant something with a connector that can be easily used for this purpose. Soldering on the connector is probably more difficult than the pogo pins that I used.

I also can't help but notice the linked connector is less than $1 in bulk on DigiKey and probably cheaper if ordered at Framework's scale.

What I found from my research while writing the post is that both Dell and HP have BIOS recovery options without having to open the laptop at all, so that's not quite true. I think there's more Framework could have done here to make this a much less painful experience.

Also, if you are doing the Raspberry Pi, you'd still need the level shifter since the Pi is a 3.3 V device.

> This is only true anecdotally. I have installed this BIOS version just fine on my 7040 series unit. It's not broken, works on my machine, my anecdote is worth exactly the same as theirs.

I linked an entire thread where people have had similar bricking issues with this exact update: https://community.frame.work/t/bios-update-stuck/83416

If it's just me, I would chalk it up to a freak accident, but it's not.

And in the repair thread, you see it's been happening on and off since last year: https://community.frame.work/t/success-in-recovering-from-ba...

This isn't an anecdote at this point, but a pattern. I don't think the BIOS updater is working as intended if every update is like playing Russian roulette.

> That said, Framework is already well above industry standard in this regard. There are not many laptops out there with non-soldered RAM and removable WiFi modules.

Yes, but they are below industry standard for BIOS flashing issues.

> The trouble here is that they invite this criticism upon themselves by offering repairability as a flagship benefit, but the reality is that it's not very practical for 100% of the computer to avoid every possible pitfall with long-term ownership.

The part that upsets me isn't that they aren't warrantying this. The problem is that they promised to make a laptop I can fix myself and provide all the documentation to do it with confidence long after the warranty ends. That's why I bought into the ecosystem in the first place.

Turns out, they claimed to do better and then does all the anti-repair design anyway for BIOS flashing. They didn't even provide any documentation for fixing it myself, which I would have done gladly and then praised them for having documentation.

Original author here. I like your optimism, but I've linked multiple threads on their forums with people doing the same problem going back over a year. I also pieced together most of the stuff from people doing external flashing on the forums. Still, no official guides, no changes as far as I can tell. This post is the most detail repair guide available right now.

If something happens after this, it would be because this post got to the top of HN and they have to respond to save face.

I was testing ECC previously in https://qt.ax/ecc and was trying to overclock the RAM to induce faults to confirm ECC was fixing them. Since I was using a cheaper board, I had to use keys to short the CLR_CMOS header and that got old really quick... I didn't ultimately succeed in creating a barely stable overclock that generated a ton of ECC errors, but that was a very awful experience.

Having some sort of BIOS recovery is definitely the baseline I'd expect these days, and having two BIOS chips so you can just keep using the device as if nothing had happened is the best solution.

The way the algorithm works is by dividing the current Unix time by the time step (commonly 30 seconds), and generating an HMAC from that. That's why most codes expire twice every minute at :00 and :30. However, to avoid clock synchronization issues, most websites will allow the codes from one or two time windows in the past or future.

This tool takes in the base32 secret and generates a bunch of OTPs, past, present, and future to help test those corner cases. By default, it uses the settings that most websites use: SHA-1, 6 digits, 30 second time steps, but those could be changed in the advanced settings.

Another use is when testing 2FA enablement repeated or creating throwaway testing accounts on apps that require 2FA setup, but you don't want to pollute your authenticator app with all the test accounts. You can just paste the secret into this tool and get the codes immediately.

You can also use this as a crude "authenticator app" since the secret is stored in the URL hash and you can bookmark that. This is probably more suitable for scripts that create test accounts with 2FA than a long term solution for your important accounts.

While it's a bit niche, I built this tool to address the pain points I ran into when testing TOTP, and I hope you'll also find it useful or fun to play around with. You can enter any random base32 string to see it in action. I find it quite fun to reduce the time step to 1 or 2 seconds and watch the codes scroll by with that overengineered animation...

This is a simple frontend JavaScript app and the source code is available at https://github.com/quantum5/totp.

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It's actually surprisingly easy to get an ASN for yourself and speak BGP. If you find building something like this tool interesting, you should give it a try. I wrote an introduction of sorts earlier (https://qt.ax/asn) if that interests you.

Note that ARIN NRPM 4.10 now requires the requested range to be used exclusively for IPv6 transition and not anything else.

As for full table, several providers I recommended in the original post are able to do a full table for less than $10/month. You can also join an IX and ask nicely for transit from other members. Some may even offer you free transit the moment you join.

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