I'm not sure what I did among the reset, reinstall, reboot, deleting caches and other files, but after SOOooooo many attempts I finally got #DockerDesktop to run #kubernetes again.

Why it stopped working is a mystery. Why it started working is a mystery.

Really, at the end of the day, parts of "the cloud" are just magic.

Hmm, the other thing I did in the middle of all this, was upgrade my #Windows11 from Home to Pro. Maybe that fixed something too - though again, #kuberentes _was_ working fine, stopped working, and now is working again.
@rockylhotka The fun thing of being an IT person. In the end, you get it working, but in a lot of cases it's impossible to retrace the steps or determine which of the 432 things you tried actually contributed to solving the problem. Sometimes it feels like being a shaman - it works, but you don't know what works, nor why :D