If I may ask, what is stopping you from discussing here on Lemmy ?

Geary has so many bugs and going to Gitlab to report the bug, you’ll find matching issues for the same bug dating back multiple years.

Geary also doesn’t offer a option for user to pull/refresh emails. Getting a 2FA code via email and waiting minutes to get the email to show up on Geary was painful.

The only thing I liked about Geary was it’s notifications integration in Gnome

Have you tried booting with the dongle connected ? No hot swap

Try booting from the live iso with a USB drive