Deflicted

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From Jargon File (4.3.1, 29 Jun 2001) [jargon]:

  deflicted [portmanteau of "defective" and "afflicted"; common among PC
     repair technicians, and probably originated among hardware techs outside
     the hacker community proper] Term used of hardware that is broken due to
     poor design or shoddy manufacturing or (especially) both; less
     frequently used of software and rarely of people. This term is normally
     employed in a tone of weary contempt by technicians who have seen the


     specific failure in the trouble report before and are cynically
     confident they'll see it again.