Why is it that when electronic devices malfunction, turning them off then on works so frequently?

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E.g computers, Wi-Fi routers, tvs, consoles. All these items malfunction every once in while and all I do is turn them off then on again to get them working again. Why?

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Imagine you’ve been given a set of 50 directions to follow. You got one step wrong, but you don’t actually know this until you’ve completed all 50 steps and aren’t where you should be. You’re given 2 options – retrace your steps to try and figure out where you went wrong, or just start again from the beginning.

Restarting your device is equivalent to starting the journey again. Except your device is running millions of instructions, and sometimes it’s near impossible to figure out which of them went wrong, and it might not even be possible to fix it.

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