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“Awful”: Roku tests autoplaying ads loading before the home screen (arstechnica.com)
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[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

mostly seems like you've tested stuff and got your shit together.

but the 720p limit is surprising to me. any idea why this happens?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

DRM. They don't like how open Linux can be so to combat people using it for pirating their content the companies restrict it.

For instance, Netflix is capped at 720p on Linux unless you are on Opera, apparently.

https://help.netflix.com/en/node/30081

[–] [email protected] 1 points 24 minutes ago

oh, you're not sailing the high seas. got it.