strangest thing. i updated firefox and now i have no notifications. only a limited number of sites have notification perms; they still say they have that permission and my system settings still have firefox allowed. i have another machine running ubuntu (with firefox from the PPA for apt) and notifications are unchanged there.

asus pn51, a mini nuc-like box

i have a 2017 macbook on which pop won’t install (installer crashes). so it runs ubuntu. the experience is maddening compared to my (non-system76) pop box

i think it’s a three-way problem between asus bios, ryzen, and linux kernel. i had a similar problem that was pinning my PN51 to kernel 5.19.16 (in my case, though, i didn’t get a garbage screen, i just got a hard freeze).

i am deathly afraid of bios upgrades, but i swallowed hard and took it - and then the sleep problem went away, and i went back to floating on kernel 6.

but i just got a fanless enclosure, and once i flipped off the fan monitoring, sleep stopped working again - now it hard reboots by itself without any obvious clue in the logs.

the fanless life is more valuable to me than sleep - i have an ssd and don’t run persistent services, so i don’t care enough to keep fighting it. but there’s definitely a tussle in there.

appimages just got less easy…

i don’t know which update did it - i think it must have been os-level (i run pop_os, derived from ubuntu) - but appimages silently stopped working. double-click, nothing. finally i looked in the log out of desparation, which said ‘appimages require fuse’.

more accurately, appimages require fuse 2 and the os had just upgraded to fuse 3. the fix is to heat-seek libfuse2, and don’t mess with any other fuse-related package as things can start wrecking themselves:

sudo apt install libfuse2

originally seen on an omgubuntu post