Turn it off and on again: the fixes that embarrassingly always work, ranked by how much they annoy you

[HardyBoy13]

A thread celebrating the fixes we resent for working. The restart, the unplug and replug, the clear the cache, the try a different browser, the humble solutions that resolve a maddening problem the moment we finally, grudgingly, do the obvious thing we were sure was beneath the situation, so let us rank them by how much they insult us by succeeding

The psychology is the fun part, because the more complex we imagine our problem to be, the more insulting it is when turning it off and on again fixes it, we want our issue to be worthy of our intelligence and the machine keeps humbling us with the simplest possible remedy

The practical value underneath is real though, so alongside the venting, share the order you actually try things in, because there is a genuine debugging ladder hiding in the folk wisdom, restart, then reconnect, then update, then search the exact error, and knowing the efficient sequence saves everyone time

So rank your most annoying reliable fixes, tell us the problem you were certain was catastrophic that a restart humiliated, and the one genuinely stubborn issue that no amount of turning off and on has ever solved, because everyone has the one bug that laughs at the classics