Oh man, I’ve managed to get far enough into all this that I have a few things working well but i went through so many periods exactly like that.

The family nagging really hits home! “This should be working, I did everything it said” only goes so far haha.

My latest one was that I was helping my neighbour with their internet setup so was on their WiFi. Of course I completely forgot so when I was home trying to SSH into my headless server, it just would not work but I knew my server was working because I was watching Plex on my TV. It took my way longer than it should’ve and I even restarted the server manually before realising I was just on the wrong network…