I haven’t tried it personally, but have heard good things:

https://github.com/kieraneglin/pinchflat

I feel like Vietnam veterans who were objectors could fall in this category. Plenty of them were forced to go. In the end, anyone who was drafted and didn’t want to be would have some level of understanding from me.

I only buy ipv6 cakes, so I’m good.

And if you’re concerned about the way Mozilla is headed, there are multiple open source versions like waterfox that should work with all extensions.

What kind of storage is it running on? Maybe the filesystem went read-only as another possibility to cmos battery issues.

Usually a cmos battery alone wouldn’t cause something like logging to stop.