Comment by brigade
Bricked as in doesn’t boot the OS, not bricked as in unable to be activated.
Bricked as in doesn’t boot the OS, not bricked as in unable to be activated.
Okay, fine, but you're replying in the wrong spot. The point being made here is the difference between broken and locked, regardless of whether it's a little broken or very broken.
Then it's not a brick.
Why is the term "bricked" in the first place?
Because of the utterly dead properties of a brick. The whole point was a visceral image of just how not remotely recoverable under any circumstances, vs merely a little extra effort can recover.
An unformatted empty computer with no os is not a brick in the same way a cd player with no cd inserted is not a brick. It's still fully functional.