EDIT: Added soft- to the title, since it was pissing people off. Maybe I’m still wrong. Idk, it’s just a meme.

  • Tb0n3@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    3 months ago

    If you didn’t need to buy a new phone you didn’t brick it. The name comes from the device becoming as useful as a brick. IE filling physical space.

    • numberfour002@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      3 months ago

      I bricked my wireless mouse the other day. Accidentally pulled the USB dongle receiver out of my computer when I thought I was pulling out my micro thumbdrive, they’re about the same size and same color.

      Long story short, the mouse stopped working. Completely bricked until I realized my mistake and plugged the receiver back in.

      • 4am@lemm.ee
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        3 months ago

        Then it’s not a brick, it’s just turned off.

        Bricked is permanently broken, will never work again, kaput, paper weighted, pet-rocked, like a brick. You can’t get a brick to POST.

        The whole point of the term bricked is to denote permanence.