• dual_sport_dork 🐧🗡️@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I would much rather have a little diagnostic and data recovery OS in the firmware with drive mounting support, a file manager, and USB mass storage rather than Doom or Tetris or whatever the hell. Playing Doom from firmware is a neat proof of concept, but won’t help anybody un-bork their OS install.

    • kopper [they/them]
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      1 year ago

      There were some motherboards that had something of that nature (Asus had ExpressGate IIRC) but they were all hilariously incomplete because they didn’t realize how useful as a diagnostic thing it’d end up being and tried to sell it off as a “quick boot” thing.