Sound and YouTube playback not working after update

[tempest2084]

This worked for me:

Audio not working after recent update

Yes, sorry about that. It was an unnerving two hours hunting this one down. I meant the first answer, which describes how to solve the problem by disabling suspend-to-idle by commenting out the line load-module module-suspend-on-idle in the file /etc/pulse/default.pa with a leading #. Instead of restarting the service I just rebooted my system.