Yeah that might be it. Sddm is a display manager, you might be using it for your login screen.

You might be able to work around it by just setting the service to restart automatically, so that it comes up properly once a display is attached. But if you can, I would try reproducing it on a fresh and fully updated install, and open a bug report to the maintainers if you can. Linux developers generally try to make really sure their programs don’t crash like that.

Unattended-upgrades or dnf-automatic

https://jellyfin.org/docs/general/clients/codec-support/

Boot log/kernel/dmesg, X/Wayland/kde primarily. Been a long time since I’ve had to troubleshoot something like this so I don’t know the new kids on the block. Maybe upstart or dracut? Whatever manages the boot process now

That seems strange. What’s in the log?

So what does it have to do with Linux?

Yes, we all know it’s fucked up. The point is that we don’t need a new class of laws just because it’s harassment and bullying ✨with AI✨.

Believe all you want, reality doesn’t care.

Yup. Don’t keep lithium batteries in a drawer. They all become fire hazards, given enough time.

Well it’s gizmodo, so already not journalism.

I would recommend not touching system apps unless you have a very good reason for doing so. And be willing to risk breaking your device.

Boot live media, mount the drive, copy it off.

Reminder that unless you are protecting the lives of others, no job is worth your own life. Keeping a hospital online to keep patients alive? Sure, I might stay through a hurricane for that. Keeping email online for Helen in accounting? Nah, that can wait. We have DR plans.

Also, you don’t significantly increase a generator’s efficiency by removing the load. In fact, they need to have a minimum load to run properly (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wet_stacking). If you wanted to save fuel, you’d have to shut it down completely. If you wanted to ensure continuous operation, you’d already have a fuel truck on standby to go in behind the hurricane and refuel.