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
Also 8 years isn’t old lol. My gaming PC is 8 years old, I have a dell latitude d400 being a server for xmpp. Why would you junk a working machine
My gaming PC is 20 years old… granted it has none of the original parts
Computheseus
True true, I read somewhere that the average lifespan for a laptop is around 5 years but maybe I’m paranoid
I don’t want to junk it if I can help it!
i built my pc around 2014. i had to swap my gtx 970 for a rx 480 because legacy nvidia linux drivers are/were terrible, and i can’t upgrade beyond 16gb ram. but it works well enough and i couldn’t afford to replace it anyway.