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    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.

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    [–] DmMacniel 0 points 4 months ago (9 children)

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

    [–] Saik0Shinigami@lemmy.saik0.com 10 points 4 months ago (8 children)

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

    [–] DmMacniel 0 points 4 months ago (7 children)

    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 points 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.

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