I think that was in December, and I don’t recall what happened.
The last few days’ troubles have been biological, as I think I hosed some settings when setting up the encrypted drives, resulting in failure to boot.
After all the restoring, the thing with vscode is bizarre. Don’t see how I could have caused that, unless it was from restoring my home from a backup, and having to chown the files. Maybe selinux got mad. 
Thanks for chiming in, I know you have many irons in many fires.