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In my day, bricked meant recovery was impossible without dragging out a soldering iron. This gave way to needing to at least physically disassemble something to get to a jtag or similar port. If you can recover the device with user accessible buttons and and standard cables... it’s not bricked in my book.

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To me it's not even a brick if a soldering iron is still useful.

And for a number of years I only thought a zero-day defect was something that had existed since that version of DOS or Windows was issued, regardless of when or whether it was discovered, patched, exploited or not.

Eventually I got the idea that people just don't want to count back that far.

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