Hello, IT. Have you tried turning it off and on again?

    • @Godnroc
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      9722 hours ago

      Ah, so the answer is just to get high!

    • @[email protected]
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      314 hours ago

      Maybe I’m misremembering (or it’s just old knowledge and new chips are more sophisticated) but despite it being low voltage vs high voltage the outcome is still on or off because there’s a resistor in the semiconductor that either allows current through or not. If it were a light switch it would be the equivalent of turning the light on or off.

      • @[email protected]
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        312 hours ago

        Ya. It’s more like “current go this way or current go that way” than it is high/low voltages.

    • @vinnymac
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      1221 hours ago

      And yet I still have electronics to this day that require me to pull the plug to get going again 😂

      • oleorun
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        1221 hours ago

        Our LG washing machine does this once every year and a half almost like clockwork. It will simply refuse to do anything until it is unplugged and then plugged back in.

        • dual_sport_dork 🐧🗡️
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          1921 hours ago

          It may be clockwork. If its power hasn’t been interrupted in the interim, i.e. you have very stable power at your house, that’s got to be some kind of overflow bug in its software. A timer somewhere is running out of room to count clock ticks and it barfs.

          • Midnight Wolf
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            718 hours ago

            washing machine

            overflow

            heh 🫧

        • @serenissi
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          I’ve an oven which when turned off in hot state while in convection mode will turn on the fans for few minutes next time I turn it on, regardless of mode and temperature. To overcome this bug I need to put mains power off for couple of minutes and let the caps keeping the ram alive drain. Not only it has hot state reset bug but also a ram initialization issue as well it seems. Thankfully that state is not stored in nvram.

          The manufacturer was as expected: ‘we’re not software guy, we can send an ‘expert’ engineer (who knows only to replace parts, no debugging) and it’ll cost $$’. I thought I’ll reverse it and fixing someday, till then I’ll live with it.