Framework Laptop 16 + Ubuntu 24.04 Annoyances

Screen Resolution

Main gripe: at 100% scale, everything is too tiny; at 200%, everything is too big

You can enable advanced features and then select 125% scaling. Good size, but everything is blurry
My compromise: leave it at native resolution, and set Chrome and IDEA to scale their UI to 125%
- not ideal, because most apps still appear too small
There are reports that native Wayland apps can scale cleanly, but it's an uphill battle to ensure nothing is going through the X11 compatibility layer

Sleep/Suspend/Hibernate

Main gripe: in suspend mode, the battery goes from 100% to 0% in less than 3 days

The tool amd_s2idle.py from amd-debug-tools is handy
- Verifies that sleep works, recommends remedial steps if it's not working
- Measures power drain during sleep
Suspend (AMD s2idle) works out of the box, but it's only good for short-term
- Battery drain with 64 GB RAM is over 1% per hour
- Battery goes to 0 within 3 days
Hibernate to disk is "experimental" and has been stripped from Ubuntu and GNOME Desktop
- Framework support doesn't cover hibernate
- You need to disable Secure Boot in the firmware (spam F2 while rebooting)
- To enable it, you need a swap partition at least as large as RAM (64GiB for me)
- You also have to set a kernel command line param resume=UUID=<swap-partition-uuid>
  - if you didn't create a big enough physical swap partition at install time (like me!):
    - there are good instructions on how to resume from a swap file
    - more instructions here but I didn't have to do the extra stuff to make it work
- To enter hibernate manually, use sudo systemctl hibernate
- You can set HibernateDelaySec=40min in /etc/systemd/sleep.conf along with AllowSuspendThenHibernate=yes (purportedly the default) to have the system wake up from sleep and then go into hibernation after a configurable time.
  - I have this set up but haven't verified it yet

Getting FUSE 2 (so you can run an AppImage)

if you sudo apt install fuse then it uninstalls ubuntu-desktop-minimal, ubuntu-session, and NTFS support. The login GUI stops working!
you need to sudo apt install libfuse2t64 instead
check /var/log/apt/history.log to see what got removed so you can add it back

Limiting battery charge to 80%

you can't! it's a firmware feature, and Framework firmware doesn't have it.
if it was available in the firmware, you could control it via /sys/class/power_supply/BAT1/charge_max_threshold

Open source QMK based firmware on keyboard modules

Technically true, but it's out of date and nobody is working on it anymore. GitHub repo is here.
- RGB macropad is under keyboards/framework/macropad
A user has a forked version with fixes and instructions for compiling here
To put the macropad into programming mode, hold 2 and 4 keys while reseating the module
- The first customization I made was to create a key binding for QK_BOOT. This works!

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