it had a glorious uptime of ~600 days!! according to htop that deserves two exclamation marks!!
....hold up why can't I ssh into it
....15 mins later, still not working???
...
oh. stall. great!
thankfully a hard reset through the webinterface did work, but this scared me for a bit (did make a rollback image before rebooting because I kinda figured it would have Issues© :')