elementary / elementary/settings-system

Bad messaging around updating firmware

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Description

## What Happened
I was attempting to update my system firmware since I noticed that it needed an update. I clicked update, and it started trying to update.
![image](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/3752122/118133431-5c7ab280-b3f0-11eb-8212-d8d6bedd35cf.png)
My laptop was not actually plugged in, so this message seems out of place. There's no way I could unplug the device.

Then, the update failed because my device wasn't plugged in.
![image](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/3752122/118133676-9fd52100-b3f0-11eb-819d-3d0aedb0b5c0.png)
There was no way to anticipate that my device needed to be plugged in to perform this update. I think that either it should not be possible to perform the update at all if the device is not plugged in, or there should be a manual override in the GUI that exposes this "forced' option that the error message mentions.

## Expected Behavior

Based on the information I was given in the GUI, I expected the update to work. The only way to discover that your laptop needs to be plugged in for a firmware update is to attempt an update and have it fail.

## Steps to Reproduce

1. Unplug laptop
2. Attempt to update firmware

### Logs

## Platform Information

I'm running elementary OS 6 beta. Here's the version I have installed from `apt`: `switchboard-plug-about/focal,now 2.6.3+r1267+pkg812~daily~ubuntu6.1`

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