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minus-squarebarcaxavi@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up112·14 days ago“Bricked” in the title feels a bit of a clickbait. In my interpretation if something is bricked, it won’t just start working again after a few hours. RIP my precious HTC Desire…
minus-squareEinar@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up60·14 days agoThe headline is clickbait. Bricked = totally dead, no recovery without serious intervention; device is completely unusable Malfunctioning = buggy, slow, or misbehaving, but still fixable
minus-squareAmazingAwesomator@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up13·14 days agolike when an escalator breaks; its just stairs now. (rip mitch)
minus-squarewjrii@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·14 days agoHTC had quite a run there. I still miss my HTC One X, back when it was actually interesting to get a new phone. These days I routinely forget which iPhone it is that I have.
“Bricked” in the title feels a bit of a clickbait. In my interpretation if something is bricked, it won’t just start working again after a few hours.
RIP my precious HTC Desire…
The headline is clickbait.
like when an escalator breaks; its just stairs now.
(rip mitch)
HTC had quite a run there. I still miss my HTC One X, back when it was actually interesting to get a new phone. These days I routinely forget which iPhone it is that I have.