"Ambient mode uses a lighting effect to make watching videos in Dark theme more immersive, by casting gentle colors from the video, into your screen's background."

If anything redirect the frustration to the leadership that doesn't prioritize fixing these kinds of errors.

The question of why it is on by default stands - because it's little bit of eye candy, vs people's laptop batteries, CPU that could have been used to get other stuff done faster - so also their time, device thermals etc... I don't think it's just unnecessarily salty to point out how the choice to turn this on by default should have been more nuanced and thought through.

- BatteryManager.charging

- BatteryManager.chargingTime

- BatteryManager.dischargingTime

- BatteryManager.level

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/BatteryMana...

https://caniuse.com/?search=BatteryManager

It should just be a setting the user can select. No probing of the machine necessary.

But if you mean there should be a setting in the browser that websites could check, I agree that could be better.

I don’t think there is a bug? It seems like a sort of image processing thing that might take a bit of compute run. To the extent that there’s blame, I’d lay the blame at the feet of whoever decided it should be turned on by default.

There are millions of FF Mac users, it’s not unreasonable to expect YouTube to do some basic testing. Never got any issues showing ads, though.

Total speculation, but Firefox seems to be pushing out a lot of UI gimmicks. Maybe they're trying to drum up interest in the browser that way, since they seem intent on killing many of their other differentiators.

If you are tech savvy, you are then expected to be able to "bear the burden" of turning the feature off if it bothers you

It’s a YouTube setting, not a Firefox setting.

Ultimately the result can be that an employee chooses health, survival and the social status that a job title brings and ships a product or feature that they can sell to their manager as innovative / disruptive / greatness reimagined.

Then again, I am using a real computer and not a toy.

This sounds like it should be relatively cheap if composition is properly accelerated.

On desktop and mobile devices:

    While playing a video, select the Settings button.
    Locate the Ambient Mode setting in the list of preferences.
    Toggle it to off to disable Ambient Mode for all videos on YouTube (in that browser).

Completely hiding it in normal mode isn’t the best choice, but it is somewhat understandable.

the best way to make youtube videos more immersive is to block obnoxious advertisements, remove useless algorithm-driven recommendations, and delete the comment section

When done right, sure, they improves the user experience by some percentage. But when done badly, the UX goes down by orders of magnitude.

> The iPhone 15 Pro and Pro Max will use a new ultra-low energy microprocessor allowing certain features like the new capacitive solid-state buttons to remain functional even when the handset is powered off

[1]: https://www.macrumors.com/2023/03/20/iphone-15-volume-mute-b...

> This is one of the myriad reasons why I have a strong preference for Linux.

Feel free to tell me I'm a sell-out, I am happy to be one today.

Glad you like your machine.

What's your machine+distro?

Honest question. If you could get that on Linux, would you? and what kind of pricing would you consider reasonable? Is it something that would have to come with the computer (i.e. would you pay for it separately or would you only use it if it was "free" aka included with your laptop purchase)? Did you stick with the vendor-provided install or did you wipe and install your own preferred distro?

Howver, whatever crazy-stable and easy to use and well supported hypothetical Linux this is wouldn’t be compatible with my “real” Linux use cases so I would then also install Arch or whatever and live with constantly borked everything and just swap between my Arch “Dev” OS and my “Linux Mac” business/work/consumer OS.

Current Linux cannot be made “MacOS”-stable. But maybe in 5 years.

Stable?? Linux is a rock of stability, you must mean something else.

I would love a Linux daily driver but I've had similar experiences to the above every time I've tried it for the last 15 years.

It says use it for non-GUI newest release upgrades? Why are you surprised the GUI disappeared?!

Also, why did to do that, if you wanted to keep the current version?

Anyhow, I never have such issues with Debian. Do bear in mind, Ubuntu(or any distro) is not Linux.

Are you going to call Linux "unstable", because you get a crappy phone with Android(which is judt more Linux).

Or non-Ubuntu, software just randomly falling apart after 2 years. Like I need a newer kernel for a new Wi-Fi card but then I need a different GPU driver and that’s incompatible with some softwares UI library, so they update that but it has an incompatibility with something else.

Or how Linux still has Wi-Fi 6 totally broken.

Sure, Linux is rock stable if you have a production environment where everything is nailed down. But from an actual daily consumer user point of view it doesn’t feel stable. At all.

I love Linux. I love fixing it when it borks. But my god does it break every week.

Don't blame the good, for the things bad does.

I go months on my Debian desktop without issues, through upgrades, and only reboot for kernel updates!

(brew addresses a lot of the issues though, even if I do have to remember to run gdu instead of du (for gnu du))

One problem that I have is all that all those mods and add-ons are out there, but there's a real mindset that "everything must be an app" and a pursuant mindset that "might as well charge for it". I don't mind paying for a complicated app, but there are certain basic features that used to be served by the freeware model on Macs that just aren't any more, and my impression is that things are heading ever more in that direction. (As well as in the direction of subscriptions over app purchases, which are right out for me for basic utility needs.)

You mentioned Rectangle.app and Hammerspoon, which are both open source. Do you have any good recommendations for where to look for other high-quality open-source mods and add-ons for macOS?

Personally I'm okay with paying for software (though I do whine about it from time to time). Yeah it should just be built in functionality, but someone devoted their time to building a thing, so I don't begrudge them a couple bucks for it - so long as it's a one-time purchase and not a recurring subscription model for unchanging functionality.

Being an average Joe is fine with me.

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