Hello, IT. Have you tried turning it off and on again?

  • GoodEye8@lemm.ee
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    14 hours ago

    Maybe I’m misremembering (or it’s just old knowledge and new chips are more sophisticated) but despite it being low voltage vs high voltage the outcome is still on or off because there’s a resistor in the semiconductor that either allows current through or not. If it were a light switch it would be the equivalent of turning the light on or off.

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      12 hours ago

      Ya. It’s more like “current go this way or current go that way” than it is high/low voltages.