Google isn’t giving me a solid answer (seems looking up answers online has become harder after LLMs took over). So I’m asking you nerds because you’re smart and I trust some of you (don’t let it go to your head, stinky)

OK so for context my Laptop is OLD. It’s an Acer Nitro 5 AN515-52-72MN manufactured in December 2018 so that’s almost 8 years old. It’s trooper. A couple of years ago I cracked it open and upgraded the SSD to 2tb and the memory to 32gb and installed Linux Mint. It’s been thriving, so I really really want to keep it alive as much as possible.

Anyway, embarrassing rambling aside. I’ve never had a problem with it until yesterday, when I connected some new Bluetooth earbuds. Ever since then my Bluetooth mouse, controller, earbuds whatever have randomly started disconnecting and immediately reconnecting. It’s got me worried that the internal Bluetooth dongle is at the end of its days, which is fine, whatever I can buy a dongle.

It’s just a software issue from an update right? RIGHT? A future update will fix it? RIGHT?

EDIT: Fixed! THANK YOU

  • neoinvin@lemmy.zipEnglish
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    7 days ago

    you could try investigating the service logs using journalctl to see what’s happening with the interface when these disconnects occur. something to look for would be like org.bluez.error.failed or host is down type errors. you can use bluetoothctl to manually connect to devices and that can produce error messages as well. the arch wiki has a pretty good resource on troubleshooting bluetooth headsets you might look at too. hopefully the error messages will be able to point you in a solid direction. good luck!