“That’s why I always have 10GB of free ram on my laptop with 16GB of ram” lol, good job sport I wonder if they browse the web on command line? lynx and curl can be rough. I take the position that sometimes gui is good, sometimes tui, sometimes cli. ncurses is a headache to write for.
yt-dlp https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cvOuN5KqufE werks on my machine
Your problem is probably an ACPI setting, if that helps you look up an explanation. Try putting usbcore.autosuspend=-1 in the kernel options on your bootloader. If that works, that’s definitely the problem, so then either you’re good without it or if you still want autosuspend for everything else (good for battery life on a laptop) you should look into a more fine grain approach.
ncurses and similar. Think 1980s word processor, emacs, vi, Slackware installer, etc.