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 4 weeks agoI remember when “brick” had a very specific definition with respect to electronics… Does it no longer mean, “broken beyond repair”?
princessnorah@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 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.
notfromhere@lemmy.ml 3 weeks 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.
Fubarberry@sopuli.xyz 4 weeks ago
Yeah, I don’t think it quite applies here since all that was needed was a reboot.