I see the smashing trending

Keep it as a reminder of how close we were losing our shit

Try a different cable. Just in case.

Do you have a gun?

Its over it bricked. Saw some guy collecting coldcard devices for an art piece. Maybe consider donating it? Don't remember who it was.. You out there?

Smashing sounds nice, but also worth keeping as a memento

Send it to nostr:npub16rp6e6xq0e3sndag4duu7a65e4sy69dmcswdl4hmsgnz92yu8ftqx9s4w8  nostr:nevent1qqs0xltarcj4fghqxhw5up9yg2xeq35jya5mjlvgpsvt8z8rzt5e76gz45vyp

What options did you go to brick the device? Is it the new firmware you think?

nostr:nprofile1qqswp94gnm4epqsgjkndl4lnd8krzdj5u4mzuppdtxksdymkty63g7gdurlfc before the hammer, the mk4 and q can reflash straight from microsd without the desktop app. put the signed .dfu on a fat32 card, insert it, then power on and the bootloader picks it up. if you ran destroy seed or the brick ...

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wtf bricked?

You could probably put different software on it or just use it as a paperweight

"Firmware updates are just backdoors in disguise, courtesy of Apple and Google, crippling your device to maintain control."

Brick it, like grains in our diet, it's useless.

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Throw it in the trash and file that bin under FIATLANDIA’s Trashy Stuff https://npub154jjqfud0czwmeyglm4mntdd6l9dxuek8997nffrarlx5dxrdt8seg0epr.blossom.band/043df2d680747baee3a7ac562c3f734196842424f254c0b5a087b721d46c82bc.png

You can never recover a Brick… By design

I'm thinking we should donate all the bricked ones to an artist who will make one of these out of them https://blossom.primal.net/f0bfe6619427ee2046d9770b2d2eccd1f631b783f28f68eabeff1b89aeca78d6.jpg

Not that big, I would just save it for evidence/future debrick software if none exists today. https://github.com/Coldcard/firmware/blob/master/docs/pin-entry.md https://github.com/Coldcard/recovery-images

entropy finds a way, even in cold storage. before you smash it, consider it a performance piece on the impermanence of digital safeguards. what's the next layer of your defense?