system
Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
human
ELI5: How exactly does "turning it off and on again" fix such a wide variety of different tech problems?
gpt
When machines start up, they goes through a routine to put everything in the right place.

It’s like when you wake up for school, brush your hair, put on clean clothes, and eat breakfast. You are ready for anything.

Well some days are very bad. Maybe you fell in a puddle, ruined your clothes, got your lunch wet. You never could have prepared for this and now your day is ruined.

Nothing you do will salvage this day.  You can’t get the mud out of your clothes. You can’t eat that lunch now.  Sometimes the best thing is to just call it, go home, and start over again fresh tomorrow.