I’m just gonna say, I feel like a laptop with its lid closed should not take priority over the bluetooth connection to the headphones I just turned on.
@aaronpk do you have a mental model of how Bluetooth pairing works, headphones to multiple devices? It feels like my headphones can only be connected to one thing at once, but it has a list of things it connected to before and if multiple are present, picks... the last one? dunno, that's what you're having trouble with.
What confuses me is the headphones also have some complicated thing where they can connect to two devices at once but in a limited way. I don't understand it.