the.com/power cycle
turn it off, wait, turn it on — the it-crowd solution that fixes everything and explains nothing.
means to fully shut down a device and restart it, clearing its memory and forcing every process to reinitialize from scratch.
from engineering term for cycling a system through off and on power states, adopted by tech support in the 90s once nobody could explain why it worked so well.
fixesmost consumer tech issues without diagnosis
different fromrestart, which skips the full power-down
routers especiallyaccumulate memory leaks fast, love this
nasa uses itliterally, on spacecraft systems too