• @[email protected]
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    652 months ago

    People sure like to just toss the word “brick” around. These printers are still functional enough to get another firmware update to fix them. You know what can’t? Bricks

    • @[email protected]
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      322 months ago

      Yeah, can we go back to when “brick” had a very specific definition with respect to electronics?

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        92 months ago

        Pfft, in my time bricks had a very specific definition with respect to masonry work.

        You damn kids with your fake definitions for real words, I swear it’s because y’all are rotting your brains away with all these new mediums for acquiring news.

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          72 months ago

          It’s really the same definition. The first time i heard it in this context was with modding/rooting smartphones (in the early days). If you fucked up a step, your device could end up in a completely unusable and unrecoverable state. At that point, its only use would be as an expensive brick

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            Exactly. Bricking is about as serious as it gets when it comes to issues with devices. If you can use it at all at any point in the future (I guess without professional refurbishment), then it’s not bricked.

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      72 months ago

      You’re funny. It’s 2025, words no longer have any meaning.

      It used to make me mad. Now it just makes me sad.