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/

166 points

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.

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78 points

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

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38 points

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

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I think the wheels and stuff are just for marketing at this point.

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43 points

Gotta respect a quality use of the word “thrice”

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17 points

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

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1 point

What comes after thrice? Quadrice? Tetrice?

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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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6 points

Have fun with your seven thousand dollar cheese grater.

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5 points

Might’ve been a marketing move to connect to the apple pie with cheese demographic.

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2 points

Did they just forget to crop the whole thing? It looks even more hideous with the grey background on the black background.

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1 point

My browser is forcing dark mode on it and the picture is not transparent.

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11 points

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.

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145 points

I’ve seen poorer documentation than this I suppose.

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25 points

I hate how true that is…

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16 points

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?!”

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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.

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116 points

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

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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)

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15 points

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 🙄

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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

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11 points

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.

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60 points

This team surprises me every time😁

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16 points

Asahi Linux devs go hard.

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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)

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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.

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58 points

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

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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.

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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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5 points

Look at getting a sas array. They’re expandable and hold lots of drives. You can pick one up for around $200

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