>all the mspfa forum threads straight up lost
>all the 2010s fanadventures forgotten

Might as well ask here since I’ve already tried everything.
Fresh Arch install and my bluetooth headset keeps disconnecting after connecting and working for like three seconds.
When pairing and connecting the headset for the first time, everything works perfectly fine. But after I reboot, the headset refuses to stay connected, even after I unpair, forget the device and pair it again.

This is exactly the same issue I had when using Arch back in 2021, and back then I had a completely different PC, with a different bluetooth dongle and a different headset. Back then, all I could find were people saying it was either a kernel update that broke bluetooth or the blueZ package that fucked things up.
Searching online, almost every thread on the official Arch forums and reddit is from 2021. I have no idea why this is still an issue apparently only for me in 2025.

The bluetooth dongle and headset work perfectly fine on Mint and Windows 10, I didn’t have to install or do anything on those systems to make things work.

The closest thing I found to a solution online was deleting the /var/lib/bluetooth folder and restarting bluetooth.service. Doing that makes everything work fine until I reboot Arch. After that, /var/lib/bluetooth is recreated and the headset refuses to connect again. Hibernating Arch or saving the session doesn’t work either.

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Chapter 75 of book two with Fuchsia's death hit me like a freight train. One of the saddest things I've ever read.