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It looks like it's not specific to Asahi or Firefox - YouTube is limiting resolution on any ARM system, but Chrome on ARM lies and claims to be x86.

To be fair, there are a lot of ARM Chromebooks and SBCs that can't really handle 4K video.

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Author might have forget that the Asahi is not the "de-facto" Linux in ARM world. Not everything is about them.

Raspberry Pi et. al. has been there many many years.

Sadly I also get these "everything is about us" vibes about Hector sometimes. They seriously should chill a bit.

I have to admit that I had to withdraw my personal sponsoring because some posts are just too mean (e.g. against Apple's speaker team), even if they are very skilled engineers.

The tech community does not have a culture where you can be openly critical about other people's social skills. If you go like "You shouldn't do that", its seen as an attack against their greatness instead of an invitation for self-reflection.

Well if their whole project is reverse engineering stuff that Apple could have just documented, it's understandable how they can get into an "us vs them" mentality.

> stuff that Apple could have just documented

I am not sure if this is valid point. Why would they document publicly something, what is supposed to use just by them?

Their business model goes directly against that. But it is not just Apple but any closed source project. No point on wasting resources to document publicly something which would weaken their own business model. Not saying that it is good for general good, but makes no sense from business point of view.

Anyway, if you document something too well, just same to make it open-source instead.

How many of these devices cater to large screens? IMHO most of such devices cater to small screens, and then 4K is already overkill. Even 720p is overkill on many of the smaller devices.

On my 1080p phone I set the resolution to 4k because 4k + downscaling makes for much better video quality than the butchered blur of pixels that Youtube's 1080p encoder produces.

I would've preferred a higher bitrate 1080p stream, but Youtube only offers that on a limited amount of videos (assuming you have Premium of course).

The Pinebook and Pinebook Pro have 1080 screens and can have hardware video decoding support. I wrote 'can' because the drivers are still in staging for the mainline Linux kernel.

Take a quick look at your phone.

Yeah this is likely done as a shortcut with assumptions made about ARM, but also an example of those that might come back and bite you. ARM is absolutely a moving performance target!

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