the.com/restart
The ancient ritual of turning it off and on again, now with 90% success rate.
means To shut something down and start it up again, clearing its confused state and hoping the gremlins leave.
from Latin re (again) meets the Old Norse stoertan, to plunge or leap; the modern sense leapt to life with computers, where forgetting and starting fresh became a survival skill.
IT gospelThe first fix support asks, because it works.
Memory wipeClears RAM, killing stuck processes and leaks.
Hard vs softSoft asks nicely; hard yanks the power.