Network Manager (Connection) Issue

[LoudMouthSoup]

I am having a network manager issue ever since setting up my nano. The nameserver seems to have permanently been changed to 127.0.0.53. I have to go to resolv.conf and add a nameserver (using 8.8.8.8) to connect to internet. I tried going into the network manager gui but the setting doesn't seem to take. Since resolv.conf is generated by NetworkManager; it obviously resets everytime NetworkManager restarts. If I don't go in an update the nameserver I am connected to the internet (able to ping 8.8.8.8) but I am not able to dig google.com.

I can access the pineapple wifi page before I add 'nameserver 8.8.8.8' to resolv.config; however, once I add it, I can no longer log into http://172.16.42.1:1471.

Can someone please point me in the right direction?

Thanks.