[DevOps] Continuouos integration issues across multiple platforms

[CodyCBakerPhD]

Describe the issue

There are a few scattered issues that I'm leaving an official record of for any frontend wizards out there

1. puppeteer fails stochastically on certain windows/ubuntu workflows; all tests pass locally but we disabled the GitHub actions in the meantime

Some speculation it comes down to random timeouts (according to debugging snapshots) but no idea why certain steps get hung up for so long if so

2. Daily tests on Mac (both arm and intel) started failing as of July 25, 2024 due to a stall/freeze in the postinstall step of npm ci

This has been observed occasionally before #678 but in that case updating the package.lock file was sufficient to resolve it

Both #898 and #899 failures to resolve the issues, so they have been disabled in the meantime

Again, building works fine locally

This one is slightly more significant because it does mean that our automated build+release won't work for Mac distributions, and we will instead have to push releases manually

Steps to Reproduce

See Action logs

Operating System

Mac

GUIDE Version

v1.0.2

Code of Conduct

Yes

Did you confirm this issue was not already reported?

Yes

[CodyCBakerPhD]

Thanks to @rly for solving all of this!