Perhaps you’re a bogon emitter like my wife?

Learn more here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_bogodynamics

Charles Stross put it succinctly in The Atrocity Archives:

Idiots emit bogons, causing machinery to malfunction in their presence. System administrators absorb bogons, letting machinery work again.

This explains why computers suddenly start to work when help arrives. Becoming a bogon sink takes much suffering and practice. You’re already on the path.