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.

  • hsdkfr734r@feddit.nl
    1524·
    4 months ago

    Can an OS be bricked?:

    A brick (or bricked device) is a mobile device, game console, router, computer or other electronic device that is no longer functional due to corrupted firmware, a hardware problem, or other damage.[1] The term analogizes the device to a brick’s modern technological usefulness.[2]

    Edit: you may click the tiny down arrow if you think it can’t. ;)

    • n4utix@lemm.ee
      27·
      4 months ago

      🤓

      It’s just a setup to the punchline, not a legitimate assessment of the situation.

    • Emerald@lemmy.world
      7·
      4 months ago

      no longer functional due to corrupted firmware, a hardware problem, or other damage.

      Other damage being an invalid driver

      • hsdkfr734r@feddit.nl
        72·
        4 months ago

        :) the hardware is still more capable than a brick:
        Plug in favourite installation media stick, push reset button (if there is one), reinstall.

    • macniel
      55·
      4 months ago

      No, unless its an embedded OS and it has no external ports.

      • Saik0@lemmy.saik0.comEnglish
        122·
        4 months ago

        You can absolutely start writing garbage to bios and brick the mobo firmware.

        • macniel
          44·
          4 months ago

          and the one I was replying to was asking about an OS being bricked, not about the bios or firmware.

          AND even then you can reflash the bios, its time consuming and costly but you can.

          • Ooops
            4·
            4 months ago

            Yes, time consuming. But it’s still working hardware, not a now useless, now unrepairable paper weight…

            Which is the definiton of “bricked” although people nowadays start to use the term inflationary.

          • Phuntis@lemm.eeEnglish
            2·
            4 months ago

            it’s not costly or time consuming maybe in the past but now you plug in a memory stick and hit a button then wait 5 minutes for a light to stop flashing

          • Saik0@lemmy.saik0.comEnglish
            32·
            4 months ago

            AND even then you can reflash the bios, its time consuming and costly but you can.

            then nothing can be bricked because on paper you can desolder the rom chip and put another one in place.

            If you want to be stupidly pedantic about shit, then nothing is anything.

            • anton@lemmy.blahaj.zone
              4·
              4 months ago

              I agree with the sentiment but …

              then nothing can be bricked because on paper you can desolder the rom chip and put another one in place.

              Companies already put serial numbers in components and configure them so only specific ones work together, requiring OEM tools to pair them.
              It’s imaginable that someone makes something similar with e-fuzes instead.

            • macniel
              25·
              4 months ago

              well, you started this pedantic shit. So deal with it.

              • Saik0@lemmy.saik0.comEnglish
                24·
                4 months ago

                Nah. The person you responded to asked a facetious question. You started being pedantic.Everyone know what it means when someone says something is bricked.