Sh*t Sh*t Sh*t – After a very long weekend of following my daughter around the soccer fields … I have returned home to a malfunctioning desktop. It’s not one particular failure mode but several. Reboots will auto reboot a second time. The desktop is hanging endlessly and triggered by subtle things like restoring Chrome tabs.

My desktop is now sulking in the corner of the room and I’m trying to use my HP devone laptop. Equally configured with Pop_OS it seems to be holding. One odity I had not seen before was screen flickering. That turned out to be the adaptive brightness and that’s working properly… however, I could not get the machine to accept power from my USB-C cable. When I would re-connect the cable it would rumble. The settign app would tell me it was not charging but I would see the time to empty change from 8hrs to 16hrs and back and forth.

I have an anker battery with a power display and so I tried that to see if the laptop was drawing some power. It was not… and then in a moment it was. I reconnectred the HP back to the USB-C and it worked ok.

My laptop is configured closely to my dekstop configuration so I should be able to move over while I fine a way to fix my desktop.

trust my a$$

Pop_OS is based on Ubuntu. I imagine that Ubuntu has a right-sized workforce for it’s variant of Linux… but does Pop_OS? Could they have let something either of their own implementation (configuration) or of a 3rd party sneak into the packages.

Snap and flatpak are starting to feel like a better solution

Snap and flatpak are not really containers but look more like chroot/jail apps. This isolation means I can trust less and still do more.

time to go back to ChromeOS

It might be time to understand who is running Pop_OS and system76 software development…. not to mention WTF the operations look like.