You'll notice
Repeated unauthorized journal reads in the sync worker now give up on the pending state rather than retrying forever.
The background git dir-sync worker now counts consecutive unauthorized/lane_unavailable journal read failures, tracked via new counters. Once a threshold is hit, it gives up on the pending note/state entirely, clearing pe/ne/ge, instead of retrying forever, logged through dir_sync_git_laptop_journal_unreadable.