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Re:YouTube is crippling Firefox on Asahi Linux by arp242 on Tuesday December 12, 2023 @07:56AM (#38611550)
Figuring out good defaults for this is really hard. In general, "Linux + aarch64 = lower performance = let's do lower resolution by default" seems like a reasonable thing, although not fool-proof obviously. Also note that the "is_arm()" is followed by "|| is_android()"-bit in his screenshot.

Asahi Linux is a comparatively small project with few real users. It's pretty arrogant to assume Google is intentionally targetting them specifically.

If anything, the bug here is that Chromium uses x86 on arm systems, although for Asahi specifically that's probably the right choice, it's a lot less clear to me that's the right choice for all systems.

Re:YouTube is crippling Firefox on Asahi Linux by duxup on Tuesday December 12, 2023 @08:59AM (#38612124)
>Figuring out good defaults for this is really hard.

Just in general it's hard... for many things I find. There's perpetually a bunch of seemingly reasonable "yeah but" for almost every default once you hit a certain number of variables / use cases / differing users / customers and etc.

Re:YouTube is crippling Firefox on Asahi Linux by izacus on Tuesday December 12, 2023 @08:00AM (#38611576)
And the primary targets for that are probably ARM Chromebooks which tend to be underpowered by quite a bit.

(I'm guessing those report aarch64 correctly.)

Re:YouTube is crippling Firefox on Asahi Linux by rany_ on Tuesday December 12, 2023 @08:28AM (#38611799)
Well, that and also when you set "Desktop site" in mobile Chromium it will report a user-agent which matches that of desktop Linux on ARM. So it is most likely trying to target those devices as well.
Re:YouTube is crippling Firefox on Asahi Linux by gjsman-1000 on Tuesday December 12, 2023 @08:56AM (#38612095)
> It's pretty arrogant to assume Google is intentionally targetting them specifically.

The Asahi Linux developers have a history of taking everything personally. If Apple adds a new way to start an ELF in macOS 12.3, it's because of them. If someone criticizes them publicly on Hacker News and isn't immediately shamed, it's because the actual leadership at Hacker News hates them (not an exaggeration considering their public stunt here where they blamed @dang for everything). If someone doesn't quite agree with their politics in perfect lockstep, they will publicly try to force you to resign (look at what happened with Dlang). And, more recently, threatening to keep changes downstream and out of the mainline Linux kernel as retaliation for what they call inappropriate conduct (which, well, if the COC of Linux hasn't been violated, I'm guessing it's probably them). And of course, if it's found out that the M2 has a technical bug with audio processing that literally nobody noticed until now, it's proof that Apple is full of incompetent idiots, unlike them.

It's also why, if I were running a corporation, I would almost require that anyone using Asahi on their Mac use a corporate fork for their own protection. I wouldn't rule out retaliation.

Re:YouTube is crippling Firefox on Asahi Linux by Fatnino on Tuesday December 12, 2023 @11:32AM (#38614406)
I see you've met marcan :)

He's a hotheaded spaniard who happens to live up to the stereotype perfectly. Except the part where he doesn't live in Spain anymore.

Very talented hacker. Best to watch from the back seats and enjoy the drama without getting any on yourself.

Re:YouTube is crippling Firefox on Asahi Linux by ddalex on Tuesday December 12, 2023 @09:09AM (#38612243)
> corporation, I would almost require that anyone using Asahi on their Mac

Any corp worth their salt issues standard locked down machines, not letting employees install whatever they want, especially as an OS.