Comment on SteamOS 3.7.13 update gets fixes for more handhelds, fixes WiFi regression on Steam Deck OLED

callouscomic@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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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  • Fubarberry@sopuli.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Yeah, I don’t think it quite applies here since all that was needed was a reboot.

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  • callouscomic@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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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    • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Did I complain?

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  • princessnorah@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.

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    • notfromhere@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I always called that a soft brick when it could still power on, but couldn’t load the main operating system, but it could receive a reinstall of the system.

      Hard brick was 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.

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• Fubarberry@sopuli.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  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 ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Very interesting. Good to know. I just never bothered to try again. Thank you for all the info.

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