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by TillE 1554 days ago
Word usage changes, but it's super frustrating when a very specific term gets stretched and stretched until it barely means anything anymore.

Bricked mean it's literally as useful as a brick - maybe it's recoverable via a JTAG interface or something similarly obscure, but it's otherwise dead. It doesn't mean "temporarily disabled until I make enough annoying phone calls".

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Breaking: "Bricked" bricked