Same problem here i also have macbook air M2 15.1 im american but am currently on vacation in the eu. i tried restarting and safe booting but its been stuck on "Preparing" for a while now.
Idk if helpful but earlier i had a system data issue and so i had to delete some Apple Intelligence Siri "Spotlight Indexing files"
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