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.
Lenovo has been absolute trash for a while now. They took the ThinkPad brand and destroyed any reputation it may have had, I’m not surprised by this at all.
Remember when Lenovo pre-installed spyware on every laptop for years? Dell did the same thing. These “tech” companies are actively detrimental to technology as a concept.
To Dell, Lenovo, HP, any sign of technological progress is taken as an opportunity to cheat and steal.
Lets not forget that in doing so, a self-signed root HTTPS cert was put into the windows store creating a man in the middle for ALL https connections.
When a user visits a web site, the software intercepted the connection, created a fake cert on the fly for that domain and signed itself with a private key.
WORSE! The private key was the same across ALL laptops and extracting the keys were trivial, so an attacker could own them all.
Lenovo: go fuck yourself.
Don’t stop talking about it until they cave
Remember when Lenovo got caught putting a rootkit in their bios? That should have been the end of anyone ever buying from them.
I didn’t know about this how is it not bigger news!?
Because no corporations want you to start thinking about your privacy… Because once you start pulling on that thread…
I brought that up to IT before, people forget so easily
Barely anyone remembers Sony shipping rootkits on their music CDs as well.
Prevention: blocking Windows Update.
Solution: rolling back to a previous BIOS version.Too bad most people who purchased a Legion Go won’t know how to do any of that.
This article has a bit more on the matter.
Seems people with a Linux distro avoided the whole ordeal. Good for them. 🫶
I bet it didn’t affect SteamOS versions…
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.
Have you considered installing Steam OS?
I could probaby find install instructions, and do this. However, It’s was my husband’s purchase, and he doesnt want me to fuck with it.
I recently gave an honest go at intalling linux on an old chrombook, that project sits unfinished, so, I get it lol.
It can usually go awhile without updating before it pushes it through, I am hoping, hoping, they patch the issue before then I guess.
Perfectly understandable. Putting Linux on any kind of OEM device can be a bit of a hassle. I’ve had the best experience with PCs I built myself, not things with custom components, weird drivers and locked down nonsense.
Installing SteamOS onto my OG Legion Go was the best idea.
How To Install SteamOS On The Legion Go
Also unlocks more oomph in games.
But I’m pretty sure lvfs has legion firmware.
There’s a "Computer-sabotage law in Germany, just sayin.
Lenovo enshittified the same route as Toyota.
Remember them pre-installing superfish? Pushing ads into the browser, compromising HTTPS by adding their own root certificate, and it was all kept in the bios so even a wipe of the OS wasnt going to fix it.
Or their software in the bios that pulled in lenovoo software before windows started?
Or all the CVE’s their bios had?
And then there is all the feedback software that they added that ran silently in the background.
I am not sure they enshitified or just simply always have been shit.
This should be added to https://consumerrights.wiki/
These things don’t update the BIOS automatically do they?
No idea but I know Windows does. A Fx505DT laptop I had bricked itself with a windows-triggered bios update. Warranty covered it but I went a month without a laptop.
I’ve been on Linux since 2014 when a windows update bricked my Thinkpad bios
Is that an 11 thing? I’m still on 10, and never heard of the OS itself updating a BIOS.
No, happened on W10 not 11.
Not sure about the hand held but the corporate lenovo I was given autoupdates everything untile I went through and uninstalled the lenovo software center
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?
