Hector Martin (@[email protected])
social.treehouse.systems
Attached: 2 images Today I learned that YouTube is deliberately crippling Firefox on Asahi Linux. It will give you lowered video resolutions. If you just replace "aarch64" with "x86_64" in the UA, suddenly you get 4K and everything. They literally have a test for "is ARM", and if so, they consider your system has garbage performance and cripple the available formats/codecs. I checked the code. Logic: Quality 1080 by default. If your machine has 2 or fewer cores, quality 480. If anything ARM, quality 240. Yes, Google thinks all ARM machines are 5 times worse than Intel machines, even if you have 20 cores or something. Why does this not affect Chromium? **Because chromium on aarch64 pretends to be x86_64** `Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/120.0.0.0 Safari/537.36` 🤦‍♂️​🤦‍♂️​🤦‍♂️​🤦‍♂️​🤦‍♂️​ Welp, guess I'm shipping a user agent override for Firefox on Fedora to pretend to be x86. **EDIT**: The plot thickens. Pretending to be ChromeOS aarch64 *still gets 4K*. Specifically: `Mozilla/5.0 (X11; CrOS aarch64 10452.96.0) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/66.0.3359.181 Safari/537.36` still works.
    • A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.worldEnglish
      514·
      7 months ago

      They dont want to just run it.

      they want to control and dictate it.

      Google needs a massive regulatory hammer to come down on it and smash it into dozens, if not hundreds, of tiny individual companies

      • Lemdee@lemmy.worldEnglish
        91·
        7 months ago

        That needs to happen more with Alphabet than Google but either would be great.

          • Lemdee@lemmy.worldEnglish
            24·
            7 months ago

            There’s no reason that people should assume you meant Alphabet rather than Google? Seeing as you used “Google” rather than “Alphabet” as they’re two different words. English is fun!

            • A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.worldEnglish
              33·
              7 months ago

              I bet you sit at home, dumbfounded and confused, as to why people never invite you to parties/trips.

              • Lemdee@lemmy.worldEnglish
                22·
                7 months ago

                I’ll cry into my filled weekend social life and life partner of over a decade, you pegged me just so accurately. Super relevant username btw.

                Dude, you specified a company and I pointed out their parent company instead. I agreed with your original statement just indicated a better target. In the future, in social situations, a person who isn’t filled with angst would normally say something like “Oh you’re right, good call” or “Yeah, that would work too.” Something that adds to and continues the conversation instead of being a weird, defensive neckbeard about it. Have a good rest of your life, bud.

                • Xeknos@lemmy.worldEnglish
                  22·
                  7 months ago

                  Yeah, but we all knew what he meant and didn’t feel like being a pedantic asshole about it.

                  So he has that going, anyway.

                  • Lemdee@lemmy.worldEnglish
                    11·
                    7 months ago

                    Clearly not from the up votes on my original comment. But I’m glad you could masturbate your ego there for a bit. Hope the dopamine helped.

                    Lemmy is so much worse than reddit for this antisocial shit, it’s ridiculous. Only a handful of you seem to know how to continue a conversation without choosing to shoot snide remarks and condescension, then wonder why active users are dropping month over month.

        • space@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
          5·
          7 months ago

          The internet is incredibly important to the modern society. Letting private companies only motivated by filling the pockets of the old farts shareholders run it is a bad idea. It’s time we consider Internet infrastructure like any other type of infrastructure.

          • odelik@lemmy.todayEnglish
            1·
            7 months ago

            I agree with you. But have you seen how California has handed over the power grid to private companies?

          • 4lan@lemmy.worldEnglish
            1·
            6 months ago

            I find it wild we don’t nationalize the banks we bail out with trillions of our tax dollars. Each and every one of us should be getting dividends on their profits, we should own half of the banks by now