@SuperDicq @icedquinn @bonifartius @sally >even RYF certified computers are very brickable.
A SPI flash brick is a walk in the park with the hardware.

I've never had internal "flashrom" programming fail myself, as I make sure to always run the right command and flash the right image.

>you have to buy yourself a hardware programmer, screw open the computer case and then try and recover by flashing it externally.
For thinkpads you need to remove the keyboard and rest and flash externally to GNUboot them.

Once you've worked out how to do it once, doing it again is trivial.