Ubuntu to add TPM-backed full-disk encryption

The only motherboard that died on me for the last 30 years was one that I accidentally short-circuited when trying to measure it with a ruler that had a metal edge. CPU and the hard disk survived.

On the other hand I have Dell XPS laptop from 2016. It recently refused to boot. As the error happens very early in the boot process, I initially assumed it was my first non-acidental motherboard failure. It turned out it was failed SSD. UEFI firmware changed its state into a buggy one when disk misbehaved. Then it refused to boot with that state. Fortunately it was still possible to reset the state. Then after changing SSD everything was fine.