diff --git a/app/matrix/matrix.hackerspace.pl.jsonnet b/app/matrix/matrix.hackerspace.pl.jsonnet
index 2e769b3a..fa5937e2 100644
--- a/app/matrix/matrix.hackerspace.pl.jsonnet
+++ b/app/matrix/matrix.hackerspace.pl.jsonnet
@@ -28,6 +28,27 @@ matrix {
         },
     },
 
+    // We really don't like restarting our media repository since it gets stuck
+    // on long fsck process of its 500G storage PVC.
+    // TODO(b/48) To be removed after migrating to matrix-media-repo/S3 storage
+    synapse+: {
+        mediaWorker+: {
+            deployment+: {
+                spec+: {
+                    template+: {
+                        spec+: {
+                            containers_+: {
+                                web+: {
+                                    image: "matrixdotorg/synapse:v1.35.1",
+                                },
+                            },
+                        }
+                    },
+                },
+            },
+        },
+    },
+
     // Bump up storage to 200Gi from default 100Gi, use different name.  The
     // new name corresponds to a manually migrated and sized-up PVC that
     // contains data from the original waw3-postgres PVC.