Sometimes, hitting electronic devices makes them work again. Blurry television? Give it a nice tap at its side and the image will get clearer. Computer not booting? Give it a kick and it will boot. This has been an age-old practice. You’ve probably done this, and I’m not going to lie, I have, too.
Surprisingly, this method is recognized even by people in the tech industry, and it even has a technical name — “percussive maintenance”, which means to “hit a malfunctioning device to make it work”.
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