It’s probably the case that this was good intent given the lack of desktop ARM computing hardware, but they really should let the client decide the video quality.
Comment on YouTube is deliberately crippling Firefox on ARM systems
fosforus@sopuli.xyz 11 months ago
Steelman: perhaps no ARM Linux system was capable of playing 4K reliably until Asahi Linux came along?
whfsdude@dmv.social 11 months ago
lud@lemm.ee 11 months ago
True, but I would guess that the clients didn’t handle that well and this was just a stupid quick fix.
MacNCheezus@lemmy.today 11 months ago
Apple Silicon has entered the chat
Flaky@iusearchlinux.fyi 11 months ago
Someone on the Hacker News cross-post mentioned it, but it seems like they assumed any ARM Linux device that wasn’t detected as running Android was some low-power device like a Raspberry Pi, and didn’t anticipate more powerful devices running bog-standard Linux until Apple Silicon and thus Asahi came along.