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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)