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I used to repair smartphones and this was a common phrase when someone would try and install a custom ROM. They would do it wrong and essentially brink the phon

I used to repair smartphones and this was a common phrase when someone would try and install a custom ROM. They would do it wrong and essentially brink the phone. It's weird for me to hear it in software circles, since I've always thought of software as being more malleable. Correct a few lines of code here or there and you're up and running again.

vetinari 9y ago
On smartphones, if you do the custom ROM installation badly, there's a chance you will wipe SPL, meaning no way to boot anymore, until you reprogram your flash in external programmer. This is not a case on the PCs; updating or reinstalling operating system will not affect your BIOS or UEFI ability to boot anything in the future[1] [1] with exceptions like Ubuntu 17.10 Intel SPI bug. But hey, exceptions confirm the rule ;).