While I knew some of this, I will happily say I did not know it all. Thank you for taking the time to do this level of info dump.

Aw. I did not realize Bukele was also authoritarian. That was the missing part.

Thanks!

I’ll be the first to admit that I’m not following every nuance about the deportations - but can someone point me in the direction to understand why El Salvador? Why there?

I mean. Imo that’s only fair. Sure they are getting one of the world’s larger economics (WA state + Portland), they are also getting Montana, Idaho, and a good chunk of the Dakota’s…

Hell. Don’t take the whole thing. Just move the boarder to the 45th parallel as opposed to the 49th.

Now I have this image in my head of a cybertruck rolling coal.

Good that it’s working (kinda).

So it sounds like your DNS resolver is botched. Id dig into the doc on how systemd-resolverd should look and see if you can’t rectify what went wrong (the arch wiki should have examples of what a default config looks like).

I don’t remember if arch uses cloud init configs but it being reset at boot feels like a cloud init config problem.

Let us know the following

If ping works for: localhost, your gateway, 1.1.1.1, google.com.

The contents of your /etc/resolve.conf

If you have a tun0 interface (ifconfig or ip a)

You said you uninstalled tailscale. Are there any running process or active systemd units laying around?