uninstalled homebrew and can now no longer ssh into my machine!

I was trying to install something with homebrew, and it installed 30gb of dependencies and then ultimately failed because this machine has 12.4 and it told me my version of XCode was too old. So I tried brew autoremove, and some other stuff, but I could not get it to reclaim the huge of space it had used up for that one installation... So I just completely uninstalled homebrew and reinstalled it. So now I got my hard drive space back, but suddenly I cannot ssh into this machine anymore.. When I put my password in it says: debug1: Authentications that can continue: publickey,password,keyboard-interactive I feel like I have seen this happen before on other mac machines when trying to scp files to a remote Desktop folder because mac os did something recently making Desktop have more locked down permissions than it used to back in the day... But my home directory shows drwxr-xr-x so it's not a permissions issue... I have no idea how uninstalling homebrew could have caused this... But, prior to doing that, I could ssh into this machine just fine.