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>>dang+yy1
Bricked things can't be unbricked (unless it wasn't actually bricked to begin with and was misdiagnosed). That is why it is called bricked.

>>spulla+Te1
Bricked things absolutely can be unbricked, e.g. by opening them up and reflashing a component, or otherwise engaging a special-case recovery path.

>>catiop+ei1
Bricked things can only be unbricked because the word has gradually lost most of its meaning. At this rate some day you're going to hear someone say they bricked their phone and mean that it ran out of battery and needs to be recharged.

>>Athero+Yo1
No, this is what the word has always meant.

An embedded device with a failed bootloader update is considered “bricked”, even if you can open it up and reflash it with a valid bootloader.

I don’t know why folks are so insistent on gatekeeping the word, as if doing so demonstrates some superior personal knowledge.

>>catiop+zp1
Some people don't just guard that word, they guard all words. We as a society even need to pass laws to protect the definition of words we use in commerce, like "ice cream" and "bread", otherwise people would abuse them to the point where they become meaningless.

>>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.