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I think I'm just going to keep an eye on it and see if it happens again, since this is the first time it's ever shut itself down unprompted like this. My cat has also figured out where the power button is and likes to press it occasionally, so unless it happens again I'm just going to chalk it up to that. Might replace the PSU just for good measure, since it's getting kinda old and was made by EVGA, about whose reliability I'm entirely ignorant.
journalctl -b -1will show you the logs from the previous boot.journalctl -k -b -1will do the same for the kernel logs. If you've rebooted again since, just use -2 instead of -1.Even better do
journalctl -r -b -1to get the latest logs firstOr you can just do
journalctl -r --since "5min ago"if it just happened