• prole
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    3 months ago

    I remember when “brick” had a very specific definition with respect to electronics… Does it no longer mean, “broken beyond repair”?

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      3 months ago

      It requires a full reset and starting over from scratch. Whatever. Fucking idiotic complaint to needle in on that one word and a bunch of fucking comments, none of which at all even address my point. But thanks for nothing.

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      3 months ago

      I think there has always been more than one meaning to it. To me it’s also meant “requires a full reinstall/restore to get working again, either through normal means, or using a special tool/method”. Like, full loss of data but not completely broken.

      Anything less than that though, like a system freeze that only requires a hard reset, definitely doesn’t count.