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HP fails to derail claims that it bricks scanners on multifunction printers when ink runs low (abcnews.go.com)

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HP fails to derail claims that it bricks scanners on multifunction printers when ink runs low::HP Inc. has failed to shunt aside claims in a lawsuit that it disables scanners and other functions on its multifunction printers whenever the ink runs low

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[–] ozymandias117@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

At that time, “Hard Brick” was getting used for the hardware was damaged

“Soft brick” was something like a boot loop where the device was unusable, but something like a DFU flash could repair (using DFU since every manufacturer had their own boot flash implementation back then)

At some point after that, people just went back to saying “bricked” for both

[–] Misconduct@startrek.website 4 points 1 year ago

As someone that rooted their phones a lot back in the day it's wild how vividly I remember this and it went down exactly as you described lol