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Firmware update bricks HP printers, makes them unable to use HP cartridges (arstechnica.com)
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[–] shiftymccool@programming.dev 63 points 1 week ago (3 children)

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

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 33 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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

[–] Darkenfolk@dormi.zone 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

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.

[–] cpaq47@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week 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.

[–] weirdboy@lemm.ee 3 points 1 week ago

Not if you have IOT smart bricks!