You know I talked this over with my partner who saw it that way. To me it’s more of an equal statement which would be incorrect. But humored me about how 2 brains can have a completely different understanding.

Am I crazy… But wouldn’t 1 hobbyte equal 8 Hobbits?

My guess is this reset your bios as flipped a tpm setting on. Maybe see if you can disable all tpm/secure boot and see if it carries on.

As an infra guy… What’s backend in this context?