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Pretty much just people using the term "brick" to mean anything from a crashing process, to something fixed by a re-install. Example: "I just loaded a buggy we
by josteink 10y ago
Pretty much just people using the term "brick" to mean anything from a crashing process, to something fixed by a re-install.
Example: "I just loaded a buggy web-page and bricked my Chrome. LOL!"
You know. How the term "hacking" has come to mean just about anything these days. There are no PC-bricks, despite people trying to claim the contrary.
- wapz 10y agoWell there are PC bricks, just not software bricks. I'd argue pouring coffee on your motherboard can brick it pretty easily. I think once the term became more widespread on mobile people used it for everything.
- y4mi 10y agoThere was also that arch Linux debacle, where users with a certain motherboard mounted the uefi partition with write permission. Some motherboards were bricked that way.
- vetinari 10y agoThe problem was deletion of UEFI variables, a bug in Samsung UEFI implementation that should not allow that.