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Hello guys, I'm curious about this meme, is there some literature where I can find someguides to test this? Thanks.

You wouldn't pay for 4k Netflix and then download a Chromebook recovery image in order to extract the aarch64 widevine com blobs and then patch in support for 16k pages and then apply miscellaneous glibc compat workarounds and then spoof your useragent, and install a browser extension to unlock HD resolutions, to legally watch media in only 1080p

crispy_kilt ,

Too much effort, sailing the high seas is so much easier

cobra89 ,

Yeah that's a lot of work. That's why I just sail the high seas and put stuff on Plex.

impure9435 ,

The image is from this Asahi Linux blog post btw

iknowitwheniseeit ,

That was a wild ride!

brax ,

Dear lord wtf, is there no dark mode?!

impure9435 ,

Dark Reader

lolgcat ,

I would wear this on a T-shirt.

ManniSturgis ,
@ManniSturgis@lemmy.zip avatar

Turns out I don't even care about all that content that much.

fatboy93 ,

Absolutely. My wife flew to her parent place with our toddler and I dont have any idea on what to watch.

All I'm watching is nursery rhymes since they're catchy as all hell.

EveryMuffinIsNowEncrypted ,
@EveryMuffinIsNowEncrypted@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

Well that was a ride.

henfredemars ,

At the moment your service becomes even marginally more difficult than piracy, yo ho yo ho. What am I paying you for?

alphapuggle ,

I am not as worried about DMCA as the author is lol

Niiru ,

Every single "service" out there is more difficult than Stremio. Exception might be non-english content

null ,
@null@slrpnk.net avatar

So I just install the app, sign up, and I can start watching whatever?

blindsight ,

You'll likely also need to pay for a Debrid service. It's basically a download caching server, so if one user downloads a file, it's available to everyone.

With Stremio, that means that popular media will already have a zillion options pre-cached. If you want more niche stuff, then you can do the extra step to get your Debrid service to download it for you (assuming there's a public teacher that has it with seeders.)

It should also work for those download/file sharing sites, but I haven't bothered to figure it out yet.

null ,
@null@slrpnk.net avatar

Well that certainly sounds more difficult than any streaming service I've ever used.

JoeBigelow ,
@JoeBigelow@lemmy.ca avatar

This is where I wind up every time I ask.

blindsight ,

Eh, it's different. I like that I can choose individual streams for different quality. I watch at 720p on my old TV with crappy WiFi, or 4K on my desktop. Anything mainstream enough to be on a streaming platform will already be loaded, it's just obscure stuff you might need to add yourself, which you'd never get on Netflix anyway.

We usually watch shows in Stremio even if they're on Netflix.

null ,
@null@slrpnk.net avatar

Okay, but I can pretty much guarantee my mom couldn't figure out how to set that up.

But she can get Disney+ going no problem.

blindsight ,

Yeah, fair. The setup is a bit technical for sure. You can set it up to default to different settings, though, so it would probably work well if the defaults are set correctly.

Like, my crappy old laptop can only handle H264s, not H265, but you can select video codec as a default. At least, I'm pretty sure you can.

My kids can manage it, and they're only 6 & 8.

WeLoveCastingSpellz ,

you will need to install the torrentio addon and have a vpn. a debrid service isn't needed

scoobford ,

You'll need to install the torrentio add-on.

You should use a VPN, but it will work without one.

You can use a debrid provider and remove the other stremio addons you don't use. I've never bothered, and to be honest I don't even really understand what debrid is.

null ,
@null@slrpnk.net avatar

Certainly sounds more difficult than Netflix.

scoobford ,

Marginally maybe? Installing an add-on in torrentio doesn't take more than a second, but it isn't a process most people are already familiar with, like entering credit card details to open an account.

JokeDeity ,

In concept. Every single time I've tried to use it I've had issues. The movies stop constantly, files become unreachable for some indiscernible reason preventing me from continuing from the same source, the app bugs out like crazy, some things aren't all that easy to find, the quality isn't always great or there's weird stuff like embedded subtitles or watermarks.

menixator ,

I genuinely thought it was just me but yeah this has always been the case for me. Neat concept but I think that living in the middle of nowhere with crappy internet makes it impossible to use for me.

vox ,
@vox@sopuli.xyz avatar

except Ukrainian for some reason. I've had a lot of issues with english, polish and russian content, but Cloudstream3 with cloudstreak-extensions-uk never ever stopped working and has all of the content i care for, with high quality dubs from either the source or local tv channels (both sound as good as the og English va)

Ithorian ,
@Ithorian@hexbear.net avatar

It's going to be way easier just to torrent the files. Also if netflix notices your account is suddenly going through ten times the data they may deactivate it.

FrederikNJS ,

But the author is actually using less data than expected, because he's paying for 4K, but only able to watch up to 1080p

Sabre363 ,

Dear, OP

Kindly go fuck thine self.

Yours truly,
This dyslexic idiot.

catloaf ,

I'm not dyslexic and I can hardly read it too.

freijon ,

have you made sure that you're not a robot?

EldritchFeminity ,

How many fingers am I holding up? If your answer is 6 or more, I have bad news for you and your data set.

Bizarroland ,
@Bizarroland@kbin.social avatar

I only have four fingers and a thumb but I have three penises and two vaginas and six titties.

deadbeef79000 ,

Five cats in a trenchcoat with a severed hand.

Check.

Bizarroland ,
@Bizarroland@kbin.social avatar

Your powers of deduction are sherlockian and uncanny

MossyFeathers ,

You might have already figured it out, but it says

You wouldn't pay for 4k Netflix and then download a Chromebook recovery image in order to extract the aarch64 widevine com blobs and then patch in support for 16k pages and then apply miscellaneous glibc compat workarounds and then spoof your useragent, and install a browser extension to unlock HD resolutions, to legally watch media in only 1080p

Also I don't think OP made the meme, I think they're just wanting to know more (as am I). Like, what's the drama? Why'd someone make the meme? It implies Netflix only lets you watch things in 1080p on a PC if you apply a bunch of workarounds (presumably to make the site think you're a TV or something).

Daqu ,

They limit the resolution on linux and even getting 1080p as a paying customer is very hard.

MaggiWuerze ,

They also limit it on other platforms, if you use anything other than Internet Explorer Edge. Since Microsofts browser is the only one to include the Silverlight DRM plugin.

Grandwolf319 ,

Silverlight DRM plugin

Wtf, hadn’t heard of that

reallyzen ,
@reallyzen@lemmy.ml avatar

It's a blog post on how to get Netflix and Spotify to work on Asahi Linux, the project to run Linux on new "M" chipsets 64bits Arm apple computers. Their solution (and widevine hack) is now integrated in the Fedora Linux Asahi Remix project' default distro. You still have to do the user agent mod tho.

DivisionResult OP ,

Thanks I will check it out!

reallyzen ,
@reallyzen@lemmy.ml avatar

It all works quite smoothly ; the install process is a breeze of a single .sh script to run directly from macos. The amount of software available for Arm64 is surprising, tho gamers will be disappointed there's no Vulkan / Steam available yet.

That "Default" install is really just Fedora, shipped with KDE for it's superior handling of fractional scaling. There's the dnf package manager, flatpaks, the works.

I'm 80~90% of the time on the Asahi side of things on my device. Showstoppers today are sleep battery drain (50% a day) and pure "ooomph" - performance of an M2Pro chip is more akin to a 12th gen i7 than the same chip under macos. Rendering in kdenlive or blender is noticeably slower on Asahi. But it's a huge reverse-engineering undertaking, and it will be getting better.

DivisionResult OP ,

Thank you for sharing this information.

melpomenesclevage ,

I understood more than half of that. I feel so smart.

DivisionResult OP ,

You are correct I didn't make the meme, I'm looking for the technical background .

Zagorath ,
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I'm really glad to see that text transcriptions of image posts are much more common here than on other sites, but clearly still not common enough.

catloaf ,

Images of text, and the people that post them, have their own circle of hell waiting for them.

In this case the image is a riff on a video, so I'll let it slide, but I don't know why OP didn't just submit the source post instead of just this image from it.

DivisionResult OP ,

Hey Sabee363, I didn't make the meme. I'm diging into this technologies because im paying for my grandma and last night I started remembering this topic, I'mhighly addictive to low level technology and I like to play with systems.

Partner, sorry if I don't transcribed. Have a nice day/evening/night.

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Sabre363 ,

Your totally fine, I was mostly poking fun at how much of a nightmare things like this can be to read. I was probably a bit heavy handed with my comment though, sorry. Might've also been stoned and forgot to finish what I was trying to say, lol.

DivisionResult OP ,

No problem my friend, I will count on this for the next time. Thanks for making me notice.

PiratePanPan ,
@PiratePanPan@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

I'm pretty sure the point of the meme is to be visual vomit just to demonstrate how fucking elaborate and confusing it is

DaGeek247 ,
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Here's the blog post about it; https://www.da.vidbuchanan.co.uk/blog/netflix-on-asahi.html

sanzky ,

I enjoyed reading this a lot. thanks for sharing

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