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 17 hours 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 6 hours ago
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 hours 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 6 hours ago
Yeah, I don’t think it quite applies here since all that was needed was a reboot.
princessnorah@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 hours 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.