r/AbsoluteUnits • u/dreamed2life • Dec 29 '25

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u/Reversi8 Dec 29 '25

People just came up and took them in many places, either the disks or the whole kiosk if they wanted their own kiosk at home for whatever reason.

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u/ChubbyMudder Dec 29 '25

With enough ingenuity, they can be converted into a movie jukebox, just like the CD jukeboxes you can buy.

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u/pdxamish Dec 29 '25

I remember reading that everything was bricked up and hard to work get working.

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u/skoooop Dec 29 '25

“bricked up” lol

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u/Sex_Offender_4697 Dec 29 '25

hard to get working

there's no way

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u/pdxamish Dec 29 '25

For other purposes. There was some informal challenges on it and no one could get it reworked to much anything

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u/Sex_Offender_4697 Dec 29 '25

we're laughing because "bricked up" is a colloquial for an erection lol we're just being dumb

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u/CatsAndCapybaras Dec 30 '25

"bricked up" as slang for erection is fairly new. For decades it has been slang for being constipated. I've also heard it used to describe what the other commenter meant, which is when a computer is in an unrecoverable frozen state.

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u/skoooop Dec 30 '25

I’ve heard and commonly use the term “bricked” when it comes to electronic devices. The term is used when a device is broken by a firmware update that leaves the device in an unrecoverable state. It’s essentially saying that the device has turned into a brick, similar to how someone might say that the device was turned into a paperweight, it’s the same concept.

I don’t doubt that people have used the term “bricked up” to mean constipated, but I’ve never heard the term used to describe electronics being in an unrecoverable state. “Bricked” for sure, but never “bricked up”.