Fail2Ban is set to only allow connections from a no longer available IP address. So I'm going to boot into recovery mode which will hopefully reset back to the default config and then allow all. I'm trying to avoid nuking this thing from orbit because that would just be a huge hassle.

So I'm leaving John to listen to the graphic audio by himself because it jumped the shark into complete ridiculousness and predictable bullshit during the last book and that's already 4 hours I'm not getting back I'm not about to add another 5 hours.