Imagine making a computer today and telling people if there's a problem to pick it up and drop it sharply on the desk.

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For most Windows consumers, lift and drop would be more preferable than the recommendations that they receive from popular advice sites.

It reminds me of a story I read about the East German nightmare car called the Trabant. The owners manual advises fleeing for your life if the car makes any unusual noises.

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The Trabant is much maligned. The design used elements (esp two stroke engine) from other cheap post WWII German cars, which themselves were based on pre-war cars. Essentially the Trabant was a 1948 car that was still made in 1989 (with a bit of fuzz there after). It is crude, generally worked and easy to fix. Wealthy people find no problem buying a Morgan, based on a 1930s chassis, so simplicity is not necessarily undesirable.

"Flee if the car makes unusual noises" is a myth. However the Trabant has a fuel tank mounted under the bonnet above the engine. So vacate the car during refilling...