CrowdStrike effectively bricked windows, Mac and Linux today.
Windows machines won’t boot, and Mac and Linux work is abandoned because all their users are on twitter making memes.
Incredible work.
CrowdStrike effectively bricked windows, Mac and Linux today.
Windows machines won’t boot, and Mac and Linux work is abandoned because all their users are on twitter making memes.
Incredible work.
Can an OS be bricked?:
Edit: you may click the tiny down arrow if you think it can’t. ;)
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It’s just a setup to the punchline, not a legitimate assessment of the situation.
Colloquially, I’d use it to mean “requires physical access to fix.”
Other damage being an invalid driver
I wouldn’t consider something to be bricked if it can be fixed by simply restoring a backup or reinstalling the OS.
soft bricked is a subset of bricked
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brick_(electronics)#Soft_brick
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:) the hardware is still more capable than a brick:
Plug in favourite installation media stick, push reset button (if there is one), reinstall.
effectively
Ummm. Yes?
No, unless its an embedded OS and it has no external ports.
You can absolutely start writing garbage to bios and brick the mobo firmware.
and the one I was replying to was asking about an OS being bricked, not about the bios or firmware.
AND even then you can reflash the bios, its time consuming and costly but you can.
Yes, time consuming. But it’s still working hardware, not a now useless, now unrepairable paper weight…
Which is the definiton of “bricked” although people nowadays start to use the term inflationary.
it’s not costly or time consuming maybe in the past but now you plug in a memory stick and hit a button then wait 5 minutes for a light to stop flashing
brick my tiny down arrow
then nothing can be bricked because on paper you can desolder the rom chip and put another one in place.
If you want to be stupidly pedantic about shit, then nothing is anything.
I agree with the sentiment but …
Companies already put serial numbers in components and configure them so only specific ones work together, requiring OEM tools to pair them.
It’s imaginable that someone makes something similar with e-fuzes instead.
well, you started this pedantic shit. So deal with it.
Nah. The person you responded to asked a facetious question. You started being pedantic.Everyone know what it means when someone says something is bricked.