My first thought was “hey I’m not a greybeard”

I am. I am a greybeard.

Well shit https://shen.hong.io/guide-to-workflow-automation-using-n8n-to-manage-receipts/

I just drooled a little at the thought of integration with Paperless.

To the average tune of about 15-65 cents per month if running 24/7

After spending quite some time troubleshooting years ago, I chopped up the odd NFS disconnection once every month or two to random network errors. Autofs looks like it’ll work but my bandaid solution was just to add a mount command to the NFS share in cron every 5 minutes. Took me 15 seconds and haven’t had to look at it since.