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[–] [email protected] 27 points 9 months ago (3 children)

Imagine telling an airline pilot to just reboot the whole plane if something goes wrong.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 9 months ago (1 children)

During a flight is a bit much, but some aircraft have a reboot between flights as a standard procedure to fix glitches that would happen if the plane was left on for the entire time.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

Nothing that high level. Different systems are running independently, some may be redundant to each other in case one fails. But run something long enough especially in extreme conditions and things can drift from the baselines. If a power off and on regularly prevents that it's a lot easier than trying to chase down gremlins that could be different each time they pop up for different reasons.

Even NASA I believe has done such resets from Apollo through the unmanned probes from time to time. Mentioning Windows, the newest versions don't really do this baseline reset if you just shut them down, even if you disable the hibernate/sleep modes, while a restart does.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago

"Tower, we have some problems"
"Have you tried turning it off and on again?"

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

You'd be surprised. We only do that on the ground, though.