Hello, IT. Have you tried turning it off and on again?
In theory. In reality it’s not on or off it’s always on and it’s high vs low voltage.
Ah, so the answer is just to get high!
Orrrr get low
To the windowwwwwww…
I’m old
To the wall
Till the sweat drip down my balls
All these bitches crawl.
My Neck
My back
And yet I still have electronics to this day that require me to pull the plug to get going again 😂
Our LG washing machine does this once every year and a half almost like clockwork. It will simply refuse to do anything until it is unplugged and then plugged back in.
I’ve an oven which when turned off in hot state while in convection mode will turn on the fans for few minutes next time I turn it on, regardless of mode and temperature. To overcome this bug I need to put mains power off for couple of minutes and let the caps keeping the ram alive drain. Not only it has hot state reset bug but also a ram initialization issue as well it seems. Thankfully that state is not stored in nvram.
The manufacturer was as expected: ‘we’re not software guy, we can send an ‘expert’ engineer (who knows only to replace parts, no debugging) and it’ll cost $$’. I thought I’ll reverse it and fixing someday, till then I’ll live with it.
Why should an oven have RAM?
good question :)
I think it’s integrated ram inside the microcontroller. It stores states and programming (time, temperature etc) + the working memory for the program running on cpu. Surely some registers can do that but who cares.
My meaning is why should an oven have any electronics?
No reason, few decades ago oven used to work just as well as they do today with knobs, thermostats and spring timers.
That’s why I said good question.
The oven I mentioned isn’t this smart but there exist ovens like
COOKING MADE SMARTER WITH WIFI POWERED BY SMART HQ: Voice-enabled cooking allows you to turn microwave on and off, add time or change power level via Alexa or Google Assistant; Scan-To-Cook Technology saves time and optimizes frozen food preparation
Mostly, though there’s also fire-fighting too.
At a Sea Parks‽
I don’t want to talk about it.
Watching the IT crowd for the 1st time with the wife. So, so funny.
Studied computer science. The answer is yes.
A computer is a funky thingy that’s a jumbled city of stuff turning on and off with the one master on/off thingy which is the clock on the processor.
When it switches from negative to positive a lot of small switches everywhere switch, some stay the same, some flip. It’s all just a bunch of rythm dancing of switches going off and on.
Turning it off and on again is a universal truth. A defibrillator works by turning the heart off then on again.
(You don’t defib a patient who is flat lining. You defib to fix an erratic heart beat.)
Go bigger than IT problems.
Most desk jobs are simply finding information: a suitable combination of 1s and 0s until someone else agrees that the combination is correct.
Then, as a reward, the business slightly changes the 1s and 0s of my bank account.
It’s 1s and 0s all the way down.
