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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.

>>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.

>>catiop+ei1
It's not a term I've seen used recently, but a bricked thing that literally cannot be unbricked through a simple repair is toasted. At least according to mid-nineties computer repair jargon. I wonder if there are regional dialects...

Weird discussion since we're talking about a piece of hardware that is working fine and doing exactly what it was told to do. They just pointed it in the wrong direction and need to wait for it to recover, which it is set up to do.

We wouldn't say a server with the router IP address misconfigured was "bricked." (or maybe we would... I guess the jargon changes, but that would seem pretty crazy to me)