Nintendo wanted the initial 99$ to fix it since it was a launch console and out of warranty. I am in no rush, so I bought a new one to play games on and keeping the old one to experiment on. The scene is progressing fast. I believe we have NAND writing now threw RCM. Going to be doing some backup>Edit>Flash>Bootloop>Restore untill some kind of CFW or recovery tools come. I am dusting off my USB UART and looking into the UART on the rail. Maybe can see what linux is getting stuck on.