> Not eager to ruin the evening by starting a debugging session

Use a clanker. Nothing has brought back so much joy into homelabbing for me as having LLMs handle the boring stuff.

I launch it in opencode on the system or elsewhere to ssh in (I think giving it KVM is an overkill but an option nonetheless) and tell it to fix things. Not just ask questions and generate configs. I have backups, let it rip. They have gotten shockingly good at it even when they write bash wrappers just to catch some logs.