You’re just trying to get the device into a known good state.
The truth is that it’s rarely worth trying to find the root cause of an issue unless it’s a frequent problem.
Something somewhere went wrong. We don’t know if it’s a hardware or software issue, so we’ll try a solution that covers both.
Powering the device off stops the flow of electricity, and waiting a few seconds makes sure that any capacitors (think of very tiny, very fast batteries) bleed off the power they’ve stored. Then turning it back on makes it go through the full startup process which is likely to result in a working state.
Ocelot@lemmy.world 1 year ago
As a non-technical person, someone on Reddit once explained in a way that makes sense to me as an analogy. Say you are on vacation for a week. Over the course of the week you get pretty good at going from point A to point B, and can even take small side trips along the way. But one day you get a little turned around, and you find you can’t get back to where you need to go. But if someone could pick you up and return you to your starting point, you could do just fine going about your business.