Comment on Startup will brick $800 emotional support robot for kids without refunds
Xavienth@lemmygrad.ml 1 week ago
God I fucking hate the abuse of the word “bricked” by tech journalists. You brick a piece of technology when you fuck it up so bad that it cannot be recovered - it becomes functionally a brick.
They are not bricking this device, they are shutting down the cloud services it needs to function because they are going out of business.
Guamer@hexbear.net 1 week ago
The end result is the same either way, no? After the updates stop coming it’ll be as useful as a paperweight.
graymess@hexbear.net 1 week ago
I agree. Accident or not, when a device is bricked it’s permanently fucked, functionally useless. The term suits it and should be what we call this practice unless there’s a harsher word to describe a company unplugging the necessary server that kills an otherwise useful, working device.