• prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    1 day ago

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

    • Darkenfolk@dormi.zone
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      1 day 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.

      • shiftymccool@programming.dev
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        9 hours 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