system
Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
human
ELI5: Why does "hard resetting" seem to fix just about anything like phones or gaming consoles?
gpt
All computers have memory. When they start up they copy the instructions they need to run into memory. If something goes wrong, the instructions in memory can break. Computers don't work when following broken instructions. When you turn off the computer, it removes all the instructions from memory. When it turns back on it copies the correct instructions back into memory, and everything works again.