A 2007 panic, the BlackBerry Storm, and why Android won't tell you why your WiFi failed

So, I was facing an issue. I had installed Android 6 on a Samsung Galaxy Tab 2; however, connecting to WiFi simply yielded... nothing. It would try for about 10 seconds and then wouldn't even give me an error. It'd simply say "Saved." I've dealt with this for years on older devices, mostly accepting it without question, but this time I decided to actually question it. I've since narrowed down the issue to the fact that my router was using PMF, and versions below Android 9 don't support it at all. But it took a decent amount of time to get there. It didn't throw an error, at least not a meaningful one, and I only realised that I could use logcat much later. All this is to say, I think it's quite interesting how so many of Android's problems can be attributed to the simple fact that it was foundationally Linux hacked onto a phone. Linux utilities are meant to log an error to the journal and die while the rest of the system keeps running. It is generally bad practise for them to alert…