This. I was also worried the first time I noticed, but seeing it happened often I just went on and updated anyway. No issues so far.

Also, not Lemmy but Fediverse related, they have a Mastodon account: https://mastodon.social/@PCSX2

If people are buying this instead of other repair-oriented brands like Fairphone, then they’re not concerned about repairability but price.

“An expensive bootloader at that, but hey you already paid us when you bought your laptop thanks to our decades-old grip on the market, so we could not care less what you do next”