Edit: With the UART bridge I can ampy put, but cannot otherwise. This suggests a power issue even though the capacitor from EN to GND is for that. I am still unable to flash firmware.

When I open Thonny, it says device busy. If I run esptool in terminal I get an invalid head of packet error. If I ...

Serial monitor:
rst:0x1 (POWERON_RESET),boot:0x13 (SPI_FAST_FLASH_BOOT)
configsip: 0, SPIWP:0xee
clk_drv:0x00,q_drv:0x00,d_drv:0x00,cs0_drv:0x00,hd_drv:0x00,wp_drv:0x00
mode:DIO, clock div:2
load:0x3fff0018,len:4
load:0x3fff001c,len:5148
load:0x40078000,len:12880
load:0x40080400,len:3484
entry ...

It wasn't the breadboard, either, and the capacitor only solved part of the problem:
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DPzZjmPDvbM/

Okay, so what I did was place that 10mf cap, not directly from EN to GND, but to the negative rail of the breadboard. From their site, I chose an earlier version of the .bin for ESP32. Then in Thonny, I chose MicroPython(generic) instead of MicroPython(ESP32).
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This is what makes me think it isn't:

If you connect to the port in miniterm (115200 baud), then reset the board, do you see a signon message? (e.g. ' ets Jul 29 2019 12:21:46') If not, yeah, your board likely is broken.

Nope. Just blank. Not even garbled serial data.

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which is now listed as: 5PCS D1 Mini ESP32 ESP-WROOM-32 WLAN WiFi + Bluetooth IoT Development Board ...