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In all but the most pedantic of senses, yes, it is bricked. Even if there were an alternative OS, I'd say it's still pretty well bricked, since installing alte
by bunderbunder 10y ago
In all but the most pedantic of senses, yes, it is bricked.
Even if there were an alternative OS, I'd say it's still pretty well bricked, since installing alternative OSes is outside the skill level and/or comfort zone of most consumers.
- maxerickson 10y agoBricked used to mean impossible to get working, not hard. I mean, I recall discussions of whether something was really bricked if you could rescue it by hooking up to a JTAG header.
- serf 10y agoBricked never meant impossible around here. It has always meant (around these parts, SoCal) that the ceiling for recovery was sufficiently high as to warrant concluding that recovery is impractical. Practically every device i've ran into that has been bricked has been put into that state via software. It may be impossible to fix such state without a JTAG bus and code from the manufacturer, or by desoldering chips, but I can't remember recently when something bricked was truly destroyed and every recovery method was rendered impossible. (bearing in mind I wouldn't consider something like a ran-over laptop to be 'bricked', but rather just destroyed) I'm sure some folks use the term when they are referring to destroyed equipment (a 'bricked' gpu from overheating) but I haven't really encountered it personally.