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 > *Rebuilt from the register on 2026-08-07, from 258 lines. The old "what shipped recently" log is what
 > the per-repo `CHANGELOG.md` files and the register are for, and is not restated here.*
 
-## ⚠ BOTH DEMO MACHINES ARE OFF AND MUTED — unmute them when they are home
+## Both machines are home, unmuted and healthy — one thing still needs you
 
-**Powered down 2026-08-09 14:08 CEST** for the move back from the vacation home. Guests stopped
-cleanly first (no vzdump was running, no locks), then the hosts. Confirmed off at the fabric, not
-merely unreachable: the tailnet is healthy and both peers report *"offline, last seen 1m ago"*.
+**Back online 2026-08-10 ~09:26 CEST**, both unblocked on the hub, both reporting **OK** on the
+approved pair (agent 0.128.0, controller 0.210.0). No false alarm fired on power-up. `drill-r50` is
+untouched and still blocked, as intended.
 
-**Both customers are BLOCKED on the hub, deliberately, to stop four false alarms an hour into the
-drive.** Blocking gates every monitor and the notification intake; it does **not** gate config pull or
-report intake, so the boxes come back normally on power-up.
+**demo-hp is in good shape.** Its off-site repository still opens with the machine's own key —
+**18 snapshots, including yesterday's rehearsal files** — so the tier is credentialed and ready; its
+first scheduled run since the rebuild is tonight at 04:15. Two apps it had before the rehearsal
+(opengist, privatebin) were never reinstalled; only Calibre-Web was, as the walk needed.
 
-> **THE TAIL, and it is the reason this banner exists: while they are blocked, a box that FAILS to
-> come back up is also silent.** When the machines are home and powered on, unblock them and confirm
-> both report:
->
-> Hub → Customers → **demo-hp** → Unblock, and **demo-felhom** → Unblock.
->
-> Then check both read ONLINE on Hosts. **Until that is done, the hub cannot tell you either box is
-> in trouble.**
+**demo-felhom has had no off-site backup for a week, and it will not fix itself.** Its repository is
+flagged **orphaned**; the last attempt was 2026-08-05 and **no run has ever succeeded**. The hub
+raised `offsite_stale` this morning and mailed you — that alarm is **true**. The remedy is the
+recovery ceremony on that machine's own screen, using its recovery code, which is the one thing I
+should not do without you saying so. *(R-278.)*
 
 ## What works