fluffy rambles: Accidental upgrade

So, a bunch of my services run, or rather, ran, on an old Intel NUC 8 that I bought back in 2020 and have mostly used as a “random stuff goes here” server. A year and a half ago the fan on it died, so I bought a cheap replacement fan on Amazon and all was good. And over time I started hosting more and more stuff on it, such as my owncast and PeerTube instances, and a few things for my home media streaming setup (which are also now accessible while traveling).This morning while preparing for a week-long trip I’m going on tomorrow I did a bunch of updates to things to make sure that I could access the server remotely (such as tweaking my Tailscale configuration and installing all the latest security updates). And then I rebooted it, and then… it didn’t come back up.So of course I went to see what happened, and it was in thermal shutdown, because the replacement fan had failed. Oh joy.I tried to quickly see if I could ad-hoc a temporary fan onto it while waiting for a replacement to…