Yes, it was fixed December of 2023 or January of 2024, if I recall right. Not long after the OLED launched. It was some specific wifi features, mostly wifi 6 features. However they only recently applied that wifi fix to the SteamOS recovery usb drive, so there was over a year where people could still run into the wifi issue if they had to repair their OS from a recovery drive.
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callouscomic@lemmy.zip 10 months ago
Have they ever fixed 5ghz wifi? It used to brick my OG deck and then clearly did with OLED as well. Just kept it on 2.4 forever. Stupid ass problem.
Fubarberry@sopuli.xyz 10 months ago
callouscomic@lemmy.zip 10 months ago
Very interesting. Good to know. I just never bothered to try again. Thank you for all the info.
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 months ago
I remember when “brick” had a very specific definition with respect to electronics… Does it no longer mean, “broken beyond repair”?
Fubarberry@sopuli.xyz 10 months ago
Yeah, I don’t think it quite applies here since all that was needed was a reboot.
callouscomic@lemmy.zip 10 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.
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 months ago
Did I complain?
princessnorah@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 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.
notfromhere@lemmy.ml 10 months ago
I always called that a
soft brickwhen it could still power on, but couldn’t load the main operating system, but it could receive a reinstall of the system.Hard brickwas the one where it was permanently disabled either from powering on or was incapable of reloading the main OS without essentially “brain surgery” of the device.