Not to get philosophical here, but animals only do what they've been programed to do (to use a computer analogy). That's one thing that makes them animals. Human beings have free choice, and as you alluded to, most are using that free choice in a wrong way. Yes, I'm paying attention.

Dan made a post just 2 days ago on his sourceforge page, and made no mention at all of this other version.

https://sourceforge.net/p/miyolinux/dis … 0494056cf/

EDIT
Got the answer on Dan's sourceforge page (the link above), yes he does endorse Jim's version.

Did Dan ever mention why he stopped developing Miyo?

Is version 125.0.6422.76-1 the one you're on now? That's the version I was updated to yesterday.

Check out this link, see if there's something there that can help before you go the nuclear option.

https://docs.xfce.org/xfce/xfce4-panel/start

Found the answer. fonts-noto-core did the trick.

The problem is solved. It was a bad ethernet port on the back of the router. Switching to a different one fixed it (it's been ~24 hours and no issues).

There are 4 outbound ethernet connectors on the back of my modem. I switched to a different one, and first thing I noticed is that I had a network connection as soon as the boot-up completed, and so far no disconnections (but it's still soon after boot up). I am monitoring it and will report back . . . .

Xfinity Arris; Model TG1682G. But another reason I don't think it is the modem is because when I lose my wired connection, my son is still connected via the wifi. That's why I think it's something in my system/computer.

Is there any kind of log I can check for this? Or a message in the network manager? I never had this problem before.

So there are at  least two ways in this thread to fix this issue, one fix by editing /etc/init.d/connman and another by replacing connman with network-manager, which is the fix I did. My question is: is one way to be preferred over the other, or does it really make no difference?