EDIT: Added soft- to the title, since it was pissing people off. Maybe I’m still wrong. Idk, it’s just a meme.

  • MeThisGuy@feddit.nl
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    4 months ago

    would you build a house out of soft bricks? no… they don’t exist.
    bricking is permanently fucking it up. as useful as a phone as a brick. aka a paper weight

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      4 months ago

      The term exists, and has been used in rooting circles since at least 2012 that I know of, since that was when I rooted my first device and ran across the term.

      While it certainly doesn’t make much sense as a term, that’s different from the term not existing.

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      Soft Brick => You can build the house with a lot of them, but when the wolf huffs and puffs, it will fall.

      Hard Brick => The house you build, will not be breakable by the wolf’s huffing and puffing.

      CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

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      Would you build a house out of a metaphorical term? It’s not literal. If a phone doesn’t boot it’s as useful as a brick until you fix it.