diff --git a/hosts/mainframe/bin/movie_recs_notify b/hosts/mainframe/bin/movie_recs_notify
index 5fd9b33..abfb14d 100755
--- a/hosts/mainframe/bin/movie_recs_notify
+++ b/hosts/mainframe/bin/movie_recs_notify
@@ -16,7 +16,12 @@ NTFY = "https://ntfy.rcjohnstone.com/movies"
 # credential. Mirrored from the rbw entry `ntfy-bot`; rbw is the source of
 # truth. Kept in a 0600 file because this runs unattended from a timer.
 NTFY_ENV = os.path.expanduser("~/.config/ntfy/publish.env")
-RECS = "/home/connor/.local/bin/movie_recs"
+# Resolved next to this script, not via ~/.local/bin. That directory used to
+# be a dotbot link into hosts/<host>/bin; it is now a real directory owned by
+# the package managers (meta/base.conf.yaml), so the movie_recs link vanished
+# and every run since died with FileNotFoundError. The sibling path is what
+# the unit already uses for this script itself and cannot drift from it.
+RECS = os.path.join(os.path.dirname(os.path.abspath(__file__)), "movie_recs")
 COUNT = "10"