Also why can we restart PCs since this contradicts this recommendation?
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For computers, it’s a nonsense.
All computers start by reading the data at memory address 0, which then immediately clears the rest of memory and initialises the machine’s hardware, peripherals and starts the operating system.
“Rebooting” is literally just running that code at memory address 0 again.
For other devices, it “might” make a difference – power is sometimes still stored in the circuits enough to keep running so it doesn’t fully reset things. I have a clock that can survive about 10-15 seconds without any power and still retain all the time and alarms, for instance.
But for computers, it makes no difference whatsoever. Whether you start at 0 by asking it to restart, or start at 0 by turning it off, it makes no difference. (P.S. rebooting a machine to “fix it” is a crock of shit).
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