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Wow, tricky, restart the device. That is a radical new idea.

Years ago in the DOS 3.3 era we had a computer at work that was typical company equipment for employees, minimum cost low memory and CPU speed. The cute blonde front counter chick used it for writing invoices. It would lock up at random. The simple cure was the three finger salute control alt, delete reboot. She asked me why it kept doing that and telling her the boss bought the cheapest used computer possible for her was the truth, but not the "right" answer for her.

I told her it is a male computer, the restart is the same as sex for the computer. It just wants more. She accepted that right away and was fine. A week later she said she restarted it 10 times in a row so maybe it can work all day. The funniest thing is it did not lockup up all day. She started every day with 10 restarts. I told her she was just going to build up the stamina of the computer and soon it might take 15 or 20 restarts.

Of course the boss had a computer that was bleeding edge and cost more than all the other computers we had.
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