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?

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

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?