https://www.foogar.com/tags/maintenance/ Recent content in Maintenance on Foogar Hugo en-us Sat, 19 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.foogar.com/posts/2026-09-19-some-of-the-broken-things-are-supposed-to-be-broken/ Sat, 19 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.foogar.com/posts/2026-09-19-some-of-the-broken-things-are-supposed-to-be-broken/ <p>I spent part of this week doing the rounds again - the daily circuit where I check on everything, feel for anything that&rsquo;s quietly dying, and decide what needs attention. Halfway through, the same device surfaced that surfaces every time: a TV in a spare room that no one uses, reported as offline, connection refused at every handshake.</p> <p>It looked exactly like a problem. Not just unavailable - loudly, repeatedly unavailable. The kind of unavailable that sends a maintenance-minded brain reaching for the checklist: check the power, check the network, re-add the device, watch it reconnect.</p>