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Nasty macOS flaw is bricking MacBooks: Don't install this update

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Re: Nasty macOS flaw is bricking MacBooks: Don't install this update

#11
post #8

It's not "bricked" if you can fix it in Recovery Mode. Still bad that it's happening, but the term "bricked" is thrown around so flippantly these days. If a piece of tech is bricked, it's not recoverable at all.

English is not my native language and this is the first time I hear about this “bricked” expression. What does it mean?

Some manner of update or action attenuates the processing power of the device to that of a clay brick.

Re: Nasty macOS flaw is bricking MacBooks: Don't install this update

#12
post #8

It's not "bricked" if you can fix it in Recovery Mode. Still bad that it's happening, but the term "bricked" is thrown around so flippantly these days. If a piece of tech is bricked, it's not recoverable at all.

English is not my native language and this is the first time I hear about this “bricked” expression. What does it mean?

It’s not a real word, it’s more of a slang word

It just changes the noun brick into a verb. So if a laptop has bricked, it means it’s like a brick now (useless)

Re: Nasty macOS flaw is bricking MacBooks: Don't install this update

#13
post #8

It's not "bricked" if you can fix it in Recovery Mode. Still bad that it's happening, but the term "bricked" is thrown around so flippantly these days. If a piece of tech is bricked, it's not recoverable at all.

English is not my native language and this is the first time I hear about this “bricked” expression. What does it mean?

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Re: Nasty macOS flaw is bricking MacBooks: Don't install this update

#14
post #8

It's not "bricked" if you can fix it in Recovery Mode. Still bad that it's happening, but the term "bricked" is thrown around so flippantly these days. If a piece of tech is bricked, it's not recoverable at all.

English is not my native language and this is the first time I hear about this “bricked” expression. What does it mean?

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Re: Nasty macOS flaw is bricking MacBooks: Don't install this update

#15
post #8

It's not "bricked" if you can fix it in Recovery Mode. Still bad that it's happening, but the term "bricked" is thrown around so flippantly these days. If a piece of tech is bricked, it's not recoverable at all.

English is not my native language and this is the first time I hear about this “bricked” expression. What does it mean?

Originally, "the device is bricked" meant that the device was about as useful as a brick, i.e. it had no useful functionality left couldn't be recovered at all. However, as the parent points out, it's been increasingly misused.

Re: Nasty macOS flaw is bricking MacBooks: Don't install this update

#17
post #8

It's not "bricked" if you can fix it in Recovery Mode. Still bad that it's happening, but the term "bricked" is thrown around so flippantly these days. If a piece of tech is bricked, it's not recoverable at all.

English is not my native language and this is the first time I hear about this “bricked” expression. What does it mean?

Rendered permanently inert, given the computational utility of a rectangular block of baked clay; banjaxed.

Re: Nasty macOS flaw is bricking MacBooks: Don't install this update

#19
post #6

Are people not using auto-update?

Why would I want to wake up in the morning to find my laptop not working? This issue is exactly why I only occasionally install updates, and if I do I wait a while for the canaries to leave the coal mine. I've been a user of macOS, distros of Linux, and Windows for years, and in every one of them there was the inevitable update that made the OS unusable. It happens rarely but, when it does, it's a miserable experienc…

Interested in hearing about a Linux update that made the system unusable.

Re: Nasty macOS flaw is bricking MacBooks: Don't install this update

#20
post #8

It's not "bricked" if you can fix it in Recovery Mode. Still bad that it's happening, but the term "bricked" is thrown around so flippantly these days. If a piece of tech is bricked, it's not recoverable at all.

English is not my native language and this is the first time I hear about this “bricked” expression. What does it mean?

To render a device completely inoperable, turning your computer into an expensive brick.
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