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Image comes from the monstrous work the Asahi Linux team did to get Netflix working on Linux on ARM Macbooks: https://asahilinux.org/2024/01/fedora-asahi-new/

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[-] AnneBonny@lemmy.dbzer0.com 162 points 2 years ago

The only platform not yet supported is the Mac Pro, although there probably isn’t much left to do. No, not the “MacBook Pro”, but the “Mac Pro” – the one that looks like a cheese grater and costs thrice as much.

I've always wondered what sort of look they were going for.

[-] Vent@lemm.ee 76 points 2 years ago

The Mac Pro only costs three times as much as a cheese grater???

[-] AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 36 points 2 years ago

Apparently they make it up on the wheels. Apple is a strange company.

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[-] sebinspace@lemmy.world 43 points 2 years ago

Gotta respect a quality use of the word “thrice”

[-] GrievingWidow420@feddit.it 17 points 2 years ago

Ignoring its existence is spitting in the mouth of pragmatism, and not in a good way

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[-] Octopus1348@lemy.lol 30 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I remember seeing it and thinking "No, this can't be real. No way Apple actually did this."

Edit: I just checked and if you apply all upgrades, the total hardware cost is $12,348. That's 3.5th the price of the future  Vision Pro

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[-] Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works 11 points 2 years ago

When did they give up on the trash can? I miss the trash can. It was easier to call it overpriced garbage when it looked like an actual garbage receptical.

[-] bigkahuna1986@lemmy.ml 143 points 2 years ago

I've seen poorer documentation than this I suppose.

[-] CaptainBlagbird@lemmy.world 25 points 2 years ago

I hate how true that is...

[-] rwhitisissle@lemy.lol 16 points 2 years ago

I've written poorer documentation than this.

"Here is a work around to fix [weird bug in production]:"

"Edit: Disregard the above. It fixes [weird bug in production] but causes [bad thing] to happen."

"Edit 2: Apparently the first edit is wrong. It doesn't cause [bad thing] to happen. Bad thing just happened to occur simultaneously the first time I did the workaround."

"Edit 3: [weird bug in production] has been fixed. This workaround is no longer needed."

"Edit 4: Turns out [weird bug in production] we fixed is what allowed our systems to communicate with one another. Had to rollback change. Work around is now considered 'the fix' going forward."

"Edit 5: Turns out it DOES cause [bad thing] to happen, but [bad thing happening] is a core component of our system's design and also PAYROLL NEEDS IT TO FUNCTION?!"

[-] doctorcrimson@lemmy.today 10 points 2 years ago

Did you read the Documentation?

Yes and I followed it exactly by running the Feldisprut command with the 8 parameters

What are your parameters?

Feldisprut -i -p -87 -256 -codecreplace -codeccopy -withsound -biflwop

Why are you using biflwop?

MY GUY I DON'T EVEN KNOW WHAT IT IS I'M JUST FOLLOWING THE DOCUMENTATION. Tried it without biflwop and it says I'm missing a parameter, so what do I put there?

use "nobiflwop"

No changes

Oh, right we don't support 256 on the beta, it only goes up to 128.

Fuck you.

[-] DebatableRaccoon@lemmy.ca 114 points 2 years ago

Problem isn't just on Linux's side for a change. Louis Rossmann did a video on Netflix's bullshit some weeks ago. Seems it's far from uncommon to not get what you're paying for with those shitbags

[-] ares35@kbin.social 47 points 2 years ago

when we've had netflix (off and on a couple months at a time, last was about a year and a half ago), we often encountered 540p max playback on "hd" titles that should have (legitimately) been streaming at 1080p; and we rarely were able to use all the simultaneous connections of the plan (usually only limit-1)

[-] BeigeAgenda@lemmy.ca 15 points 2 years ago

When it's like that I'm happy we only have the cheapest netflix, and then 🏴‍☠️ when they eventually remove what you were watching.

They even removed One Punch Man 🙄

[-] Trainguyrom@reddthat.com 10 points 2 years ago

I'm still on the old cheapest 720p plan that they no longer offer (waiting to see if they jack the price up or silently move us to a different plan). I stream on too many devices that would require way too much fuckery to get a higher resolution anyways plus we've really only encountered the number of screens limit once

[-] Lev_Astov@lemmy.world 11 points 2 years ago

Yeah, I fell for this once a year ago and was dumbfounded to only get 480p when I paid for "UHD". Never paying again. Great job, bean counters.

[-] MaxPower@feddit.de 59 points 2 years ago

JellyFin likes my new 20 TB HDD very much. That's all I'm saying.

[-] Gutless2615@ttrpg.network 16 points 2 years ago

Link for the hdd? I’ve got like five 5tb drives all wired to a usb hub and need to bite the bullet and get some real storage solutions.

[-] Solemn@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 2 years ago

https://diskprices.com/?locale=us&condition=new&capacity=20-&disk_types=internal_hdd

Good place to find what's a good deal. I think my search string there is specifically 20+tb drives.

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[-] csolisr@communities.azkware.net 56 points 2 years ago

If you want to read the gritty-nitty of how exactly was the Widevine blob patched and worked around specifically to not violate the DMCA, here's the specific article

[-] Blackmist@lemmy.world 53 points 2 years ago

Sad that Android TV boxes have better playback than PCs costing 20 times as much.

[-] Rikj000@discuss.tchncs.de 49 points 2 years ago

Android TV is not free though.

You pay with yourself,
your interests / watch habits,
all being collected and sold to the best bidder for "personalized ads"..

[-] Blackmist@lemmy.world 8 points 2 years ago

Depends on the launcher you use.

[-] Illecors@lemmy.cafe 23 points 2 years ago

That's... Not at all how it works.

Don't worry, you're one of today's lucky 10000!

Launcher on android is just that - an app to launch other apps. Other apps can and do run in the background, without ever being explicitly launched. Think play services, location provider, wifi connection manager, etc. Since google runs its stuff at the highest level - nothing can hide from it. Other apps, like netflix, utilise internal telemetry. Assholes like facebook push the boundaries to the limit and collect literally every input of every sensor to have as much data about your environment as possible.

TL;DR - custom launcher cool, but no cure.

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[-] spfhaar@lemmy.world 48 points 2 years ago

I regret convincing my parents to subscribe to Netflix instead of using Torrent or Emule. Fuck these fucking companies that now cost more than bluerays and broadcast content with crappy quality if you don't have a platform that knows how much you're shitting yourself

[-] Scrollone@feddit.it 31 points 2 years ago

You can always setup a nice Plex server and give them all the movies they want.

It's not like you can't unsubscribe from Netflix

[-] spfhaar@lemmy.world 9 points 2 years ago

I have to find the time to do it, I had seen jellyfin as a solution, but I also have to find something that acts as a server, my raspberry pi 3B+ is not powerful enough for 1080p+ streaming

[-] bitwolf@lemmy.one 12 points 2 years ago

If you parents have a standard TV stick or Apple TV their devices support a variety of codecs.

This means that you can "direct stream" content from Plex / Jellyfin with minimal CPU impact.

At 1080p it should at least support ~4 direct streams when it doesn't have to "transcode".

That said, even if it is weak by today's standards it's a good platform to learn the setup on. Then you can move to something else more powerful (but still cheap) once you understand it all.

At least that's how I did it, 3b+ -> Pentium J5040

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[-] cypherpunks@lemmy.ml 48 points 2 years ago

i am against paying for DRM streaming services, and i boycott apple products, but i must say this is an impressive hacking effort and a well-executed meme about it. 🥂

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[-] cmat273@sh.itjust.works 31 points 2 years ago

If I could easily do this on my desktop/laptop I legitimately might stop pirating media. I would also stop if the streaming companies just let me watch full quality and didn't take away what I purchased because the rights holder decided they want you to buy it again on another platform.

[-] whofearsthenight@lemm.ee 21 points 2 years ago

I don't mind much paying for streaming (although that's increasingly more and more annoying and I still tend to just download whatever I actually care about) but until and unless I can pay to "own" a movie and they just provide me with a DRM free video file of some sort, I will never "purchase" digital content like this.

If you tried this kind of bullshit in just about any other context, even normal people would think you're crazy.

Normal Person: "hi there, one blender please. I'll take this one for $25."
Sales person: "Cool here's your receipt."
NP:: "It says here at the bottom of the receipt that you can just come in my house and take this blender back whenever you want or maybe never?"
SP: "yep."
NP:: "And you don't tell people that ahead of time?"
SP: "no when you buy it you agree to that by opening the box and it is on the receipt you get after you bought it."
NP: "you fuckin with me rn?"
SP: "afraid not, and would you look at that corp says I need that blender back, thanks."
SP: "oh, shoot. I see here you also bought a toaster from EvilCorp sold in one of our EvilMart locations a couple years ago, we've decided to license that brand instead to our new partners FukUMart, so we'll be taking that toaster but if you want you can head to your local FukUMart and buy that toaster again for more than you paid the first time."
NP: spontaneously combusts

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[-] Redcedar@lemm.ee 30 points 2 years ago

The irony of this article being able to quote those comments for us, the humble readers, while the fucking movie studios can't do the same in a court of law is just... so delicious.

[-] skeeter_dave@sh.itjust.works 27 points 2 years ago

I'm so glad that I subscribed to netflixs DVD rental service. I would get stuff in the mail, rip the disks with handbrake, and send back. Repeat. Torrents where a no go with a 5gb a month satellite ISP.

[-] BigBananaDealer@lemm.ee 8 points 2 years ago

genius idea, i should have done that but i was only a child

[-] TwanHE@lemmy.world 24 points 2 years ago

Still remember having to patch widevine L1 on my Poco F1 just to get HD working on Netflix.

Weirdly my totally legally obtained DRMless video files never had this issue.

[-] Grass@sh.itjust.works 12 points 2 years ago

Neat. Chromebook image is useful for blobs when installing coreboot also.

[-] SchizoDenji@lemm.ee 11 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Common Linux L. As much as i hate Netflix, Linux bros as worse.

[-] salarua@sopuli.xyz 17 points 2 years ago

why is this an L? Linux is fully capable of 4k playback. any Linux user (with a 4k screen) can go to YouTube and watch a 4k video in full quality. Linux support is there, the bandwidth is probably there, the hardware power is there (Asahi Linux is for Apple hardware), so the problem is either Netflix or DRM in general

[-] starman2112@sh.itjust.works 11 points 2 years ago

One of the biggest ratios I've seen on this platform lmao, the people here love their Linux

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