"Piracy is a service issue.." (Image is a real story btw, link in post)
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/
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/
I've always wondered what sort of look they were going for.
The Mac Pro only costs three times as much as a cheese grater???
Apparently they make it up on the wheels. Apple is a strange company.
I think the wheels and stuff are just for marketing at this point.
Wait, what wheels?
look it up on apple store, if it's still on there
I just looked at the product page and every single image makes me dislike this product more than the last. The goddamn thing probably weighs 10 pounds and comes with fucking wheels.
Edit: Apparently it weighs 37 pounds. I don't know how they crammed that much bullshit into a 18 by 9 by 20 box, but they did and then they slapped wheels on it. The wheels are probably considered a two thousand dollar "value" by Apple, though.
bullshit doesn't end here. There's a $1k monitor stand, that needs a $200 extension to be vesa compatible, and is no better then some free stands that u get with (dare I say) normal monitors.
Surely you mean it comes with a 1000 dollar monitor, not...just the monitor stand?
How do you portay hysterical laughter with a comment?
insert that here
Gotta respect a quality use of the word “thrice”
Ignoring its existence is spitting in the mouth of pragmatism, and not in a good way
What comes after thrice? Quadrice? Tetrice?
Whatever you want, man, that's the trick
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
Have fun with your seven thousand dollar cheese grater.
Might’ve been a marketing move to connect to the apple pie with cheese demographic.
Did they just forget to crop the whole thing? It looks even more hideous with the grey background on the black background.
My browser is forcing dark mode on it and the picture is not transparent.
That's what i'm saying. I looked for a CPU cooler lastly and Noctua & co. (all with dark webpage) all neatly cut their product image on transparent. But Apple can't bother for their overpriced cheesegrater.
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.
I've seen poorer documentation than this I suppose.
I hate how true that is...
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?!"
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
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)
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 🙄
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
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.
This team surprises me every time😁
Asahi Linux devs go hard.
That Fedora Spin just works. This afternoon I fired up mine to a colleague, he was blown away: I've got the Spinning Cube! And the Wobbly Windows! Dzoinggg!
But seriously (tho I love my Cube), kdenlive, Ardour, the works, and all on modern pipewire - just works. It's what I need, it is indeed fantastic work, both from the Asahi team and the Fedora people.
(Yes, I had to do all those things to get Netflix, yikes)
Super interesting read. We get to experience apple's incredible engineering, but we don't often get the chance to see how things work under the hood. This was probably the most interesting article I've read in the past month.
JellyFin likes my new 20 TB HDD very much. That's all I'm saying.
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.
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.
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
Sad that Android TV boxes have better playback than PCs costing 20 times as much.
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"..
What about a raspberry pi with lineageos as a tv box?
It depends on what you'll run on it.
LineageOS in itself is good/private.
However the GApps/GMS are not.
I'd recommend replacing GMS with MicroG if you need that for the apps you use,
which still talks to Google,
but in a minimal way.
YouTube isn't private either,
but Grayjay/NewPipe are.
You can put LineageOS on some of the Amlogic boxes and just don't install Google apps and stick to FOSS.
Ofc the most private way to view content is to sail the high seas, though.
Depends on the launcher you use.
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.
Scary. Recommend any further reading?
I don't have something specific to read, my statement comes from questioning the declared permissions by apps. Why would, say, facebook - an app that, essentially, downloads and uploads content via http, need access to location, gyro, contacts, texts, call history, making calls, microphone, etc? Also, while I can't prove it, as someone who works in computing I can guarantee there are undocumented/buggy/testing APIs and just straight up bugs that companies with enough resources can and do find and abuse. Cambridge analytica has only strengthened my view on this.
Take a look for yourself with a rooted phone.
Blocker will show you all the recievers/services/activities/providers the app uses,
and will allow you to block them.
https://github.com/lihenggui/blocker
Apps often still work correctly with about 80-90% of their recievers/services/providers blocked, since they're spyware, which doesn't add functionality to the app.
XPrivacyLua will allow you to lie to apps when they request sensitive data.
Aditionally it will show you timestamps of what it lied about, to which apps, reveiling what they try to collect on you.
https://github.com/M66B/XPrivacyLua
ClassyShark3xodus allows you to decompile and scan apps on the fly,
to check which well known trackers are embedded into it.
https://bitbucket.org/oF2pks/fdroid-classyshark3xodus
Idk if these apps still do it,
since I have not used them for years,
but that's how I learned about many things like:
Not a cure, but does stop me seeing ads. And frankly of you don't want anyone to know what you're watching, you wouldn't be on Netflix either.
But my point remains that Android TV is still a better legal media player than a PC.
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
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
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
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
Personally I bought a used office PC (with 8 GB of RAM and Intel i5 6th generation) on eBay for less than 100 €. It works really great!
yes, but singleboard computers take up less space, make less noise and have almost non-existent energy consumption
I find this to be an option with Movies/TV Shows but a struggle with Music. At least once my kids were older and listening to stuff. They were constantly asking for stuff to be downloaded, my mom and wife were asking for stuff, my brother, etc. Had a subsonic server set up and just got tired of actively managing it. Spotify isn't great but it works and it saves a headache. I just wish there was better options because I don't like the Spotify app. YouTube Music is even worse, especially since it subscribes to everything on YouTube too so all my subscriptions got jacked up.
Give them a search tool as a web app (for said music server and scraper setup) and allow them to ask it for the music. When they're over their limit, have it return a temp unspec error. Dust your hands and walk away proud.
I don't have access to my music torrent site anymore due to the first one shutting down (W.CD) and then going idle on the other one for years. Don't feel like re-downloading everything either since I lost all my music in a hard drive crash. Could probably recover it from my Cowon X7 but don't know where the cable is for that anymore.
Ah, good ol' w.cd ⚰️🌹😢
if you want DRM-free, bandcamp is the best way, but for "exploring" subscribing to spotify is the best way in terms of quantity, and it doesn't pay much less than other DRMs even if it has a monopoly, and is not from the USA or China
Here you can compare other services if you are interested in how much money goes to the creators: https://streamingcalculator.com/ or https://www.musicgateway.com/royalties-calculator
otherwise if you don't want to pay, youtube + soundcloud with adblock is the best solution. or if you really have a lot of time you can make your own self-hosted pod on funkwhale: https://docs.funkwhale.audio/administrator/index.html
https://bestforandroid.com/apk/spotify-premium-mod-apk/
Just create a fake account with 10 minute mail or something similar. On my desktop i use the web-app with ad muting extension. Works rather well.
xManager Spotify.
Holy fuck, emule?! At this point, just use usenet.
It's used by my father for some old porn and the colourful progressbars.
I still have nightmares from the porn I've found on emule decades ago. Apparently some people have fetishes that involve brutally killing animals...
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. 🥂
How I sleep knowing that I have never having watched any Widevine content ever in my life: 😴😴😴
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.
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
Anyone who has worked in retail will tell you this is absolutely, concretely, and vehemently something corporate would expect their employees to actually say to customers, so don't go giving them any ideas...
"If buying it isn't owning it, that means pirating it isn't stealing it"
Digital goods in the 20s be like
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.
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.
genius idea, i should have done that but i was only a child
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.
Im kinda mad cuz i removed netflix from my phone plan cuz they kept increasing prices. now Netflix is apparently something i get in my package (its in my base plan somehow and not something i can uncheck anymore. It's not something i can remove, (something i want because fuck Netflix yarrr) and the base phone plan price keeps ticking up. Fucking phone plan pricing grrr that's a whole other thing...
Change carriers
Neat. Chromebook image is useful for blobs when installing coreboot also.
These people are so hardcore, I love reading their news, there is at least one thing that makes me go WTF in a positive sense every time
Is there a way to watch full hd on prime video yet?
Piracy?
And as always, DRMs fuck only legitimate customers, and pirates can watch anywhere at full quality.
That's one of the reasons I don't feel bad about pirating any more. Not even the cost, but the fact that if you pay you're going to have a worse experience.
I already have jellyfin and debrid and stremio. Still, it's good to have prime video working because I'm paying for Amazon prime regardless.
Need this one
You're right, I wouldn't.
The only reason I use Netflix is the PS3, because I don't have a smart TV
You don't need a smart tv, keep your dumb one and consider buying a Roku, save yourself a few cents
Or a Nokia Streaming Box
Or better yet, a Raspberry Pi running LibreELEC so that you don't have to worry about where your software comes from or what it's doing in the background
Tubi.tv and Xumo are what Netflix was in 2010 and they are much better than Netflix today. Movies and shows I want to watch are there plus live tv.
This picture originally actually doesn't come from the article linked, but rather from here https://www.da.vidbuchanan.co.uk/blog/netflix-on-asahi.html
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i cant understand your problem.
I mean... I might tho, if I felt like it, as a means to support the creation of new shows:-D
Seed your favorite shows, #1 way to support them!
then just use fedora asahi remix because the asahi linux team did the work for you, also they would really appreciate some donations
Tell ya what, i bet if every production company magically disappeared tomorrow we would still have new shows. It'd start out like the early days of youtube (my favorite btw) but in my (perhaps unusual) opinion Netflix, disney, sony, et al are more a barrier to quality content than a benefit.
I mean, how many really really good things did you watch last year? What interesting, unusual things might we have seen this year if marvel 25 and spidweman 15 etc weren't taking up all the air?
We talking movies and TV shows in general, or only ones that came out in 2023? If the latter, then Dungeons and Dragons was the only good thing I watched last year
Most of the good shows I watched last year were animes that came out around the turn of the century
You got it! i dug into my anime backlog last year too, but I've not seen of early 2000s stuff. Will you tell me what your liked?
Hope you're ready for a wall of text!
Early 2000's anime has definitely aged. In my opinion the aesthetic of it has aged extremely well, but I understand that the relatively poor animation and picture quality are enough to turn some people off to it. If you like the aesthetic as much as I do, then I have a whole list. I'm not much of a shonen guy, so a lot of these are calmer, less action-packed shows.
My personal favorite anime is Haibane Renmei, from 2002. The story seems like a mystery at first, but the show never answers most of the questions it raises–it's not about finding answers, it's about the characters, and how they act and react both towards each other and towards the world they live in. The setting is what really pulled me in–it has the same timeless, liminal feel that Ico, Shadow of the Colossus, and The Last Guardian have.
Cowboy Bebop and Trigun are staples. Both 1998 shows. It's hard to believe that Cowboy Bebop was made in the 20th century. Both shows have good plotlines, lovable characters, well-made action sequences. It's hard to write anything about them that hasn't been written before. Watch em!
Witch Hunter Robin from 2002 was pretty good, imo. It's a mystery series about a team of witch hunters. It starts out as a sort of monster (or witch, as it were) of the week show before pivoting into a longer story arc about the characters discovering a conspiracy. The show looks drab and gloomy at first, but really it's absolutely dripping with character, and Amon is the only person in the show that never really seems happy. The action sequences are largely made up of characters just sort of standing and staring at each other, but the camera work and visual effects make it look really good in my opinion.
Fullmetal Alchemist '03 was the first FMA I watched when I was a kid, but never got around to finishing until last year. It's really good. Brotherhood and '03 are largely similar (with minor differences) up until the 5th Laboratory, where they diverge severely. Personally I felt like '03 had a more concise, well-told story. Having fewer characters worked in its favor, because it gave the characters that it does have more time to develop. It also takes itself a lot more seriously than Brotherhood–it feels more like a seinen than a shonen.
Planetes (also from 2003) is the hardest sci-fi that I think I've ever seen. It's about team of orbital debris haulers in the 2070s. At first it's a slice of life show about their day to day activities, and partway through it becomes something of a political drama/action show. It's cool. The main character is a little bit annoyingly idealistic in the first few episodes, but after that it's a solid 10/10 from me.
Last Exile (also 2003) is one of my favorite shows. It's very confusing at first, it feels like there's a couple of episodes worth of exposition missing in the middle, but all in all I absolutely adored it. It never gives you any more information than you need to know, and it never wastes time explaining how its universe works. How do vanships fly? Because of claudia. What is claudia? It's the fuel that makes vanships fly. You never even find out what Exile means until like 23 episodes in. The show is extremely aware of its own aesthetic, in a way that the sequel series from 2011 kind of wasn't. Still worth watching both series IMO, because the sequel finds its own footing in time.
Mushishi (2005) is another calm one. Probably the calmest one. Watching it is like meditating. It follows a sort of travelling doctor who tries to help people when their interactions with the ethereal mushi (they are explicitly living things, but for the sake of storytelling, you can think of them as spirits) turn harmful. Every episode is a new place, a new mushi, a new story. It's masterfully crafted, and the slow pace ensures that not a single frame goes to waste. The early 2000's aesthetic works heavily in its favor, making it fit right in with Studio Ghibli's works, even though it was an Artland joint.
Baccano was 2007, so a bit late to call it "turn of the century," but it has the same sort of aesthetic and vibe that most of these shows have. The story has a wide variety of characters, each with their own fully fleshed out stories, all intertwining like a spider's web as they meet and influence each other. It's really good. Watch the dub!
Right now I'm nearing the end of Noir (2002). I couldn't tell you if it's worth watching until I finish it (just in case it ends badly), but so far I'm liking it. It's about a pair of assassins, one of whom has amnesia and only knows that she's somehow connected to the other, and the other who is trying to find out who killed her family and why. If I have one gripe with the series, it's that they don't ever show any blood on screen. They aren't afraid of showing people die on screen, a lot of people die in every episode, but aside from holes appearing in people's clothing, there doesn't appear to be any actual violence.
Ok i need to check some of these out since our tastes appear similar. Thank you for sharing, and with a little write up for each too! Appreciate the "wall of text"
I want to reciprocate, but like i said i haven't seen many from that era. An exception is wolfs rain from 2003. Its probably my fav anime of all time actually, so if yu haven't seen it, it might be right up your alley.
Took me a few months to get back to you, but it totally was! My car's been blaring Stray more than any other song for the last couple months
Oh hooray! I had wondered if I'd hear from you again! What did you think? I would love to hear it
It was awesome! It gave me strong Last Exile vibes, despite the two series being nothing alike. Out of the anime I listed in that comment, it's the one I'd recommend the most based on Wolf's Rain
I’m kinda bad at explaining but I’ll toss some more names (as well as reiterating suggestions for FMA03, Mushishi and Planetes, all 3 great shows):
-Gankutsuou: Sci-Fi reimagining of the Count of Monte Cristo. It has some weird choices but it’s overall really good.
-Kaiji: an indebted guy does gambling to try to solve his problems. Lots of mind games and suspense, way better than what it sounds like. One of my personal favorites.
-Higurashi no Naku Koro Ni: Horror/Mystery series set in a secluded village. It has some clichès and the animation… isn’t the best, but I really liked it personally. Don’t bother with the third and fourth seasons that came out recently (or do, but they’re honestly not needed at all).
-Monster: Thriller about an ex-Surgeon trying to find a past patient turned murderer. From Urasawa, if you know the name.
-Paranoia Agent: Mystery semi-episodic series about a lot of different characters, their life struggles and a mysterious boy going around beating people with a golden bat for no apparent reason. From Satoshi Kon (his movies are all really good too btw).
Tbh I haven't watched Netflix in a couple months - there are too many interesting things to watch that are not there! - but I do like knowing that some (probably tiny proportion but still more than zero?) of my funds goes to the original content creators, plus CC is built right in and it's actually a solid streaming delivery, when you do find something worthwhile - as opposed to e.g. 123 streaming that can be extremely hit-or-miss (plus shows yanked entirely without notice). The point about the early days of YouTube is well taken, though as you implied that has not held up over time.
To be clear I am not advocating for anyone else to do so, just saying that I do (sometimes), although I am open to cmv too. It bothers me that anytime something actually gets popular Netflix drops it, though it's nice that I don't have to maintain a huge library of files and spend time on curation, so there is definitely both benefits as well as detractions.
There's your problem. Using Linux is like using a dishwasher instead of a rice cooker to cook rice.
You don't get 4K on Windows or Mac either unless you have a HDCP-compatible display, a supported graphics card, and typically the devices will refuse to initiate a handshake due to the locality check failing, or a difference in HDCP version - Unless you have a "smart" TV you're watching in 1080p or lower.
Piracy point still stands: why pay for a service that does not guarantee to give you what you are specifically paying for, and actually goes out of their way to block your access?
Netflix may take away their subscription but they can't take away my Transmission and VLC.
I fail to understand your reasoning, could you elaborate?
What are you smoking? Running a video file is trivial.
😏 https://github.com/anomalyce/rice-cooker
Common Linux L. As much as i hate Netflix, Linux bros as worse.
Such horrible people, fighting back against senseless DRM
Even on Windows, you only get full bitrate Netflix playback in the UWP Windows Store app.
Obvious bait.
For what it's worth.
Fair
Wow.
A bad take from a good person. I like your history so i want you to think about this...Don't get mad at or direct hate towards passionate people. The world needs them to make stuff for the rest of us schlubs who spread our attention thin. Besides, isn't some of that annoyance, just a little of that prickly feeling, jealousy?
I get the feeling you're expressing here, i do. I've felt it myself. I personally have wondered why, and done some self-reflection and considered maybe this is my answer. If it makes sense then maybe it is your answer too. Whatever you're reason for feeling this way, the next thing to ponder is is whether expressing this emotion to others has a practical use for them to hear, out for you to say.
This one is a feeling that is useless to everyone especially yourself.
it is one to recognize as a failing and to work on, not to express in a forum as an emotion to be proud of
Fair enough, I was too casual to judge a community based on the circlejerk. But my frustrations lie with the circlejerk that there is more on lemmy.
Just wanted to drop a comment to let you know I really appreciated reading all of your comment, as it was well written, diplomatic and direct, worthy of conversation. Well done.
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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
One of the biggest ratios I've seen on this platform lmao, the people here love their Linux
The level of downvotes on this comment is absolutely wild, although unsurprising since the OP is about a W for Linux...
On the flipside at least we're not a certain other website that restricts user activity based on their internet points... so OC can still participate without their stuff being auto deleted by a bot
What's a ratio?
Massive downvote to upvote discrepancy on Lemmy would constitute “a ratio” / “getting ratioed“.
TIL.
Giving you the benefit of the doubt, how is this an 'L' for Linux?
Of course you're allowed to not like Linux enthusiasts; like any hardcore dedicated group, they can be intense and uncompromising... But that has nothing to do with this.