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After my #homelab machine died on Monday, today the PSU of one of my switches kicked the bucket. That is in addition to the already flaky WiFi repeater that keeps taking down my entire home network every few weeks for some reason.

Maybe I should really consider redoing my entire network with better hardware 😅. But I’m planning to wait until I need to buy a new router for the fiber connection I will hopefully be getting next year.

Still, I would really appreciate a week or two without tech issues.

On the plus side, I’m getting ever more practiced in debugging my network. “Hmm, Home Assistant didn’t react to apple home requests, but the zigbee switches still worked, so the machine is up. Wait, why can’t I see any Ethernet devices on the “connected machines” tab on my router? Okay, that would imply that this specific switch is down - yep, that’s the one.”

Not the kind of muscle memory I wanted to build, but okay.