Thank you so much, @borniet, it's greatly appreciated!

Oh yes, I definitely know that life comes with its highs, lows, and challenges, and that's fine, but yeah, as you said, when it's way more of the challenging stuff, and far too little of the beautiful stuff, then it can get problematic. Enjoying peace, quiet, and lovely views sounds pretty nice to me!

Haha...no worries, I knew that you were busy. Yeppers, and it was a bugger, but I surmounted it in the end! Basically, due to a grub update, when I rebooted my computer, grub complained about no shim-lock, and refused to allow any kernel to boot. I had run into that issue before, but what had always worked in the past to resolve it, didn't work this time, partly because of an ASUS firmware bug. So my laptop was unbootable for about 3 days, although thankfully I was able to run my Qortal node via a chroot into my unbootable Arch installation. I had the idea to simply downgrade grub, then reinstall it with a new set of arguments, one of which disabled shim-lock, and that worked, super thankfully! 😁🙏💚✨🤙

!DIY
!INDEED
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