Okay so I've fixed my mothers laptop.
I think it was a UEFI/Secure Boot issue with the system failing due to a key mismatch. I reset the key store and reset the bios back to stock entirely and it showed up finally... which means that fedora pushed an update that somehow updated the keys of the internal ssd incorrectly and caused a mismatch......... which is fucking bullshit. Secure boot is fucking trash and is only a thing because Microsoft tried to EEE the fucking desktop OS market a little over a decade ago. It's literally just another onion layer for DiD - which, fair, is another layer... but god damned the tradeoff in fucking end user frustration isn't worth the benefit it provides imho... at least not the way its currently used/implemented.... but I'm just a nobody so I guess I'm the idiot.
TL;DR: Secure boot is trash and anyone defending it has never had to deal with it fucking up.
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