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> nostalgia over a time when "have you tried restarting it" was the most common piece of advice I think I missed the memo... that's surely still the single mos
by wizofaus 3y ago
> nostalgia over a time when "have you tried restarting it" was the most common piece of advice
I think I missed the memo... that's surely still the single most common go-to when something stops working mysteriously? Or are you suggesting it's no longer "advice" because everyone already knows that by now?
- quickthrower2 3y agoI think restarts of home computers are rarely needed even in Windows. On the server we have gone down the cattle not pets route so that restarting is abstracted away. (When was the bare metal restarted on that CDN/VM/ etc.)
- wizofaus 3y agoHad to do it just yesterday when Bluetooth just stopped working, and yes I tried everything else I could think of first. And I do software restarts (iisreset etc) all the time. Mind you I also tried restarting my phone(s) a couple of times recently when it started exhibiting strange behaviour. In neither case did it work - one phone I gave up on entirely (no internet when on cellular data, but it had other issues and had been planning to retire it). The other I had to dig around to find some obscure option ("reading mode") that had been activated somehow.
- quickthrower2 3y agoBluetooth / general audio may be the annoying exception. It makes me want to schedule a nightly kill of slack.exe lest it become too attached to it’s worldview of my audio devices.