CrowdStrike effectively bricked windows, Mac and Linux today.
Windows machines won’t boot, and Mac and Linux work is abandoned because all their users are on twitter making memes.
Incredible work.
CrowdStrike effectively bricked windows, Mac and Linux today.
Windows machines won’t boot, and Mac and Linux work is abandoned because all their users are on twitter making memes.
Incredible work.
Can an OS be bricked?:
Edit: you may click the tiny down arrow if you think it can’t. ;)
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It’s just a setup to the punchline, not a legitimate assessment of the situation.
Colloquially, I’d use it to mean “requires physical access to fix.”
Other damage being an invalid driver
I wouldn’t consider something to be bricked if it can be fixed by simply restoring a backup or reinstalling the OS.
soft bricked is a subset of bricked
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brick_(electronics)#Soft_brick
effectively
rm -rf /
:) the hardware is still more capable than a brick:
Plug in favourite installation media stick, push reset button (if there is one), reinstall.
Ummm. Yes?