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[โ€“] TabbsTheBat@pawb.social 13 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The first one is to warm up the engine. Like getting your car ignition to kick over in the winter

and sometimes that's exactly what's needed. Services wake up, connections get established and then when you try again things are up and it works.