• Darkenfolk@dormi.zone
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    22 hours 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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      5 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