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>>dang+yy1
> In short, it was remote bricked, by giving it commands to rotate a bit. > But luckily it automatically readjust itself to earth automatically every half year exactly for these events.

I remember when bricking something meant it was totally unrecoverable. Now it means "temporarily not working but will automatically heal".

>>burnte+AB
> I remember when bricking something meant it was totally unrecoverable.

Precisely. 'Bricking' something means it is unrecoverable and is irreversible.

No idea at what point in time the definition was changed to mean 'temporarily not working'.

>>rvz+G71
Bricking oftentimes can be reversed using JTAG connectors. IMO - bricking describes thr state that a device is not operable, not irrecoverably so - just that its difficult to reverse.

Also, it's not a technical term with a rigid definition, hence "soft-bricking"

>>belter+(OP)
Stub for arguing about what "bricked" means. These comments were originally replies to >>36941191 , but we moved them because the offtopic discussion was choking the thread.

Normally I'd have marked the entire subthread offtopic, but hutzlibu's comment deserves to be at the top, even if it does use the word "bricked" wrong.