Fix log
Real problems from my homelab and repair bench: what broke, how I tracked it down, and what fixed it. Written up so the next person (or the next me) doesn't start from zero.
Docker Desktop's crash loop: 50 crashes, one settingDocker Desktop on Windows refused to start after unclean shutdowns. The leftovers showed it had happened about 50 times, all traced to one unused feature.The BIOS update that made two hard drives disappearAfter a routine motherboard firmware update, two drives vanished from Windows. Rolling back didn't help. A CMOS clear did.The firewall that kept crashing: USB network adapters and a kernel bugMy OPNsense firewall rebooted itself every few hours, once taking the internet down for 5.5 hours. Two different faults were hiding behind one symptom.Ping lies: the living-room TV that kept bufferingLive TV kept buffering, but the network tests looked perfect. The real numbers were hiding one level down.