How to get useful answers to your questions

Re:How to get useful answers to your questions by pbhjpbhj on Thursday October 21, 2021 @06:43PM (#28951725)

If it's phone support they might have a call-length metric. Stringing you along, but maybe not too much, might be useful to them!?

I hate this too, fwiw.

Though one time I was caught out on a forum: I said I'd 'turned it off and on again, lol!1one' and the respondent was like 'no you have to restart'. And that was the day I learnt Windows restart does something different to power-cycling.

Issue still outstanding, but I did make the Jackie Chan 'wth' meme face, and whatever SE board voted to close it without a solution for whatever rubbish reason.

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Re:How to get useful answers to your questions by tempestn on Friday October 22, 2021 @02:26PM (#28960717)

Restart definitely does something different than a forced power cycle, if that's what you mean, but I believe shutdown and then boot up is nearly equivalent to restart. Are you saying it's not? Do you have more detail on the difference?

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Re:How to get useful answers to your questions by chrisdave on Friday October 22, 2021 @05:02PM (#28962693)

Restart doesn't give the electrons time to cool.

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