Plasma Bigscreen – 10-foot interface for KDE plasma

Re:Plasma Bigscreen – 10-foot interface for KDE plasma by 9dc on Friday March 06, 2026 @07:26PM (#47282958)

but it will be hard to play DRM protected media, eg Netflix on a device like this, right?

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Re:Plasma Bigscreen – 10-foot interface for KDE plasma by trueismywork on Friday March 06, 2026 @07:36PM (#47283026)

720p using widevine. I play it. It works. Even if I disable DRM in my main browser. And only isolate it to my Netflix account.

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Re:Plasma Bigscreen – 10-foot interface for KDE plasma by haunter on Friday March 06, 2026 @07:42PM (#47283073)

You can get 1080p on Linux with Opera https://help.netflix.com/en/node/30081

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Re:Plasma Bigscreen – 10-foot interface for KDE plasma by SahAssar on Friday March 06, 2026 @07:45PM (#47283111)

Weird, why just on opera? It uses the same engine (chromium) as many other browsers.

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Re:Plasma Bigscreen – 10-foot interface for KDE plasma by h4ch1 on Friday March 06, 2026 @08:53PM (#47283597)

I'm guessing because of a higher widevine certification level or a server-side policy?

You can also spoof Opera's user agent and get 1080p on FF so guessing it's a server-side thing; since Linux has L3 widevine certification because no kernel level TEE

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Re:Plasma Bigscreen – 10-foot interface for KDE plasma by godelski on Friday March 06, 2026 @09:35PM (#47283872)

I have no issues on Firefox FWIW. I haven't needed to spoof the user agent, though this is something I needed to back in the day when they literally blocked FF's user agent.

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Re:Plasma Bigscreen – 10-foot interface for KDE plasma by 3eb7988a1663 on Friday March 06, 2026 @07:42PM (#47283076)

Is that through a dedicated Netflix profile or is there a way to enable DRM per site?

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Re:Plasma Bigscreen – 10-foot interface for KDE plasma by himata4113 on Friday March 06, 2026 @10:22PM (#47284162)

the magic trick is just to not, netflix won't even stream you 4k 90% of the time even if you do have all the requirements.

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Re:Plasma Bigscreen – 10-foot interface for KDE plasma by nextaccountic on Saturday March 07, 2026 @06:46AM (#47286762)

why won't they?

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Re:Plasma Bigscreen – 10-foot interface for KDE plasma by himata4113 on Saturday March 07, 2026 @06:31PM (#47292514)

Bandwidth costs money, less bandwidth = less money spent. I have noticed that if you use a vpn you will get 1080p at best, 720p more often than not.

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Re:Plasma Bigscreen – 10-foot interface for KDE plasma by drnick1 on Friday March 06, 2026 @11:01PM (#47284354)

This is just a DE for Linux, it does not solve the problem that DRM is incompatible with a free platform. Get your content from another source than Netflix.

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