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On Linux, I run fwupdmgr to periodically check for firmware updates. Not every manufacturer supports it yet, but I've had good results with a few laptops. Not sure if it supports BIOS.
Also though, I generally try to leave my BIOS alone if everything is working fine. Unless I hear of a reason to update, I'd rather stay on a stable version.
It does support bios updates. That's how I do mine on my laptop (a Lenovo).
I'm not familiar with fwupdmgr, so I'm not sure either about it delivering bios updates. A good tool to know about for sure, though!
BIOS/EFI updates have shown up on my ThinkPad T490 under Fedora, and I think Framework supports this feature as well with their devices.
You could even set up a cron job for it, or (at least on Arch) create a Pacman hook that runs fwupdmgr every time you update your system
Cough Cough Linux
I don't think I've ever gotten bios updates via apt...not sure if that's a laptop thing, a manufacturing thing, or what.
No bios update, but you most likely received both microcode updates (which is what will fix/mitigate the Intel issue, the bios is only to ensure everybody gets the microcode update) and firmware updates (from linux-firmware)
Of course non-mainlined (i.e. not in the linux kernel) firmware is a bit more iffy, luckily it's getting slowly better with OEMs using fwupd for those scenarios
Or just email the account used for registering the part when there's an update
If the firmware updates are digitally signed sure, otherwise I don't know if I'd like knowing my system could be hijacked or bricked remotely through DNS poisoning.
I don't mean use the RSS feed to actually deliver, I just mean a blog-style announcement. Of course, to be security conscious you shouldn't follow any links in that announcement to download it, but still.
I can’t event get my town to put the trash holiday schedule in an iCal file.
I feel the pain
I remember that Asus did this back in the day at least, not sure if they still do. But I remember having rss feeds for at least 2 of my motherboards in my reader, back when rss was actually widely used. It's been like 10-15 years though...
They're probably just going to send out a tweet, so something that checks twatter.
Twitter ceased to exist in July 2023.
This deserves a retweet.