Looks like those XYZs ended up being irrelevant to my situation (figured as much seeing as looking online didn’t give me much information).

I needed to reinstall plasma-x11-session per a recent update since I still use x11.

It’s fixed!! Thank you so much!

Side note: also going to subscribe to the Arch newsletter to avoid mishaps like this in the future.

I am indeed using X11. I tried using Wayland ~a few months ago (on one or both of my setups, wish I could remember) and it did not work very nicely for me so I just stuck with X11, which so far has worked perfectly for what I do.

(Sorry for image quality) this is what I’ve got:

Successfully made it to a different tty with ctrl-alt-F5 and was able to run journalctl -b

I’m not entirely sure what error I’m looking for here in particular so I’m taking a guess that “Activation request for ‘org.freedesktop.XYZ’ failed: The systemd unit ‘dbus-org.freedesktop.XYZ.service’ could not be found.” is the one I’m looking for (XYZ because there are a few of these such errors with just the XYZ changing between them).

Is this the same error you got?

Depends on the mood I’m in. Lately, I’ve been drawing in a tiny sketchbook I bought because a little sketchbook isn’t very intimidating, and I can just do a few quick practice drawings or commit to a small but detailed piece for an hour.

Another thing I like to do is lay on my back with my headphones on, put on some music, and do literally nothing except stare at the ceiling and listen to all the little details of my favorite songs that I don’t hear when I’m doing other stuff. It’s my form of meditation since “normal” meditation has never worked for me personally.