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From observation, "brick" has evolved, as things do in language. In practice, it rarely means the traditional definition you refer to, but the softer one used h
by the__alchemist 2y ago
From observation, "brick" has evolved, as things do in language. In practice, it rarely means the traditional definition you refer to, but the softer one used here.
- Kerbonut 2y agoAlmost like a "soft"-brick, if you would.
- taneq 2y agoYou could say the device was pillowed. :D Although given the typical behaviour of old phone batteries, I guess that’s a little ambiguous.
- dmckeon 2y agoThus, perhaps "loafed" as in something brick-like, but which may also be soft. And a "loafed" device, being idle, would be loafing.
- nullhole 2y agoA soft brick would be a brick before being fired in an oven, no? So maybe the term shouldn't be 'soft brick' but rather 'muddied'. "That updated muddied my device, I had to clean it up with a restore"
- dgoldstein0 2y agoI appreciate the sentiment but I don't see that catching on. I think a variant of bricked makes sense as it basically means you can't use the device until you can figure out how to fix it. Which the "muddied" analogy doesn't really fit - it's usually possible to use muddy things if not necessarily pleasant.
- nomel 2y ago"fix it" was the definition of the the old usage of brick though, with the "fix it" generally meant a hardware fix, like replaced components. if the fix is reinstalling software, then that means it's still a completely functional piece of hardware. there's nothing wrong with it. you don't say your car is broken because someone who can't drive sits in the driver seat! get off my lawn!
- nomel 2y agoI remember this being referred to as "the OS needs to be reinstalled", a trivial thing that nobody bothered to give a name to, because it was frequent and non-consequential.
- codetrotter 2y agoAlso, although HN readers probably have many devices in their homes there are people out there who have only a phone and no computer. For them this would be pretty catastrophic. Hopefully they’d take their device to Apple or a third party technician
- guappa 2y agoI'm quite convinced apple would just sell them a new one.
- two_handfuls 2y agoAh yes, the Goebbels effect, also known as "A lie told a thousand times becomes the truth."
- fc417fc802 2y agoAnd for that reason I wouldn't hassle laymen over it but among the HN crowd I expect a bit more care. An "anything goes" attitude makes communication more difficult. "Soft brick" is the correct term that already exists.
- rendall 2y ago> "Soft brick" is the correct term that already exists. Which is the term that the article uses. "The result is a device that’s soft-bricked, requiring a device erase and restore from backup."
- mcherm 2y ago> Which is the term that the article uses. ...except in the headline.
- porridgeraisin 2y agoNeed to get you to click on it :-)