{"id":6410,"date":"2022-01-31T15:14:29","date_gmt":"2022-01-31T20:14:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peroty.com\/blog\/?p=6410"},"modified":"2022-01-31T15:14:29","modified_gmt":"2022-01-31T20:14:29","slug":"why-does-turning-a-device-off-and-on-again-fix-most-technical-problems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peroty.com\/blog\/shared\/why-does-turning-a-device-off-and-on-again-fix-most-technical-problems\/","title":{"rendered":"Why does turning a device off and on again fix most technical problems?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>This is possibly the best answer to this question I&#8217;ve ever seen. Found via <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SaraBWarf\/status\/1485469273925505026\">@SaraBWarf on twitter<\/a> via the excellent <a href=\"https:\/\/labnotes.org\/weekend-reading-subject-expert-in-a-problem-you-made-up\/\">Labnotes newsletter<\/a>. Embedding the Reddit response below and the plain text in the event it disappears in the future below.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-reddit wp-block-embed-reddit\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"reddit-embed-bq\" ><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/NoStupidQuestions\/comments\/sauaid\/comment\/htvpd6c\/\">Comment<\/a><br> by<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/user\/Alkazei\/\">u\/Alkazei<\/a> from discussion<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/NoStupidQuestions\/comments\/sauaid\/why_does_turning_a_device_off_and_on_again_fix\/\"><no value><\/a><br> in<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/NoStupidQuestions\/\">NoStupidQuestions<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/embed.reddit.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"UTF-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-style-default is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Imagine you live in a huge, ancient city with winding streets that have many twists and turns. You want to get from your house to the grocery store. Somewhere along the way, you aren&#8217;t paying attention, and take a wrong turn.<\/p><p>Now you&#8217;re lost. You don&#8217;t recognize any buildings. What do you think is more likely to help you &#8212; going around and around in circles, or magically teleporting back to your house and starting again from the beginning of the route you already know?<\/p><p>That&#8217;s what power cycling does. It takes a device that&#8217;s trapped in some kind of problem, picks it up, and puts it back down at the starting line again.<\/p><p>&#8220;Ah, the starting line,&#8221; it says. &#8220;I know what to do from here.&#8221;<\/p><cite><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/user\/KDY_ISD\/\">KDY_ISD on Reddit<\/a><\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is possibly the best answer to this question I&#8217;ve ever seen. Found via @SaraBWarf on twitter via the excellent Labnotes newsletter. Embedding the Reddit response below and the plain text in the event it disappears in the future below. Imagine you live in a huge, ancient city with winding streets that have many twists [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[286],"tags":[1515,1205,224],"class_list":["post-6410","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-shared","tag-explaining","tag-problem-solving","tag-technology"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peroty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6410","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peroty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peroty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peroty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peroty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6410"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/peroty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6410\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6412,"href":"https:\/\/peroty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6410\/revisions\/6412"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peroty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peroty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peroty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}