• Darkenfolk@dormi.zone
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    1 day ago

    Pfft, in my time bricks had a very specific definition with respect to masonry work.

    You damn kids with your fake definitions for real words, I swear it’s because y’all are rotting your brains away with all these new mediums for acquiring news.

    • shiftymccool@programming.dev
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      12 hours ago

      It’s really the same definition. The first time i heard it in this context was with modding/rooting smartphones (in the early days). If you fucked up a step, your device could end up in a completely unusable and unrecoverable state. At that point, its only use would be as an expensive brick

      • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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        3 hours ago

        Exactly. Bricking is about as serious as it gets when it comes to issues with devices. If you can use it at all at any point in the future (I guess without professional refurbishment), then it’s not bricked.