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Re:Nasty macOS flaw is bricking MacBooks: Don't install this... by j4yav on Sunday April 12, 2020 @07:50AM (#22847610)
In my experience people call those sorts of things broken or not working, rather than (soft or hard) bricked. So people would say things like "the power went out in my house and soft bricked my TV until the power company turned it back on"? It's interesting how language evolves.
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Re:Nasty macOS flaw is bricking MacBooks: Don't install this... by huffmsa on Sunday April 12, 2020 @01:19PM (#22849604)
No, downloading a bad patch for your smart TV that puts it in a bootloop or won't let you change inputs would be a soft(ware) brick.

Hardware errors are hard bricks.

This isn't a difficult delineation.

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Re:Nasty macOS flaw is bricking MacBooks: Don't install this... by j4yav on Monday April 13, 2020 @06:38AM (#22854604)
That doesn't seem to align with where you said that any non-normal state is bricked, and that the difference between soft and hard bricked is your ability to repair it.
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