• lightrush@lemmy.caOP
      4·
      2 hours ago

      Mostly yes but there are functional differences in convenience. For example the standard upgrade process is completely manual. You have to disable third party repos. You have to change the repos. You have to check if you have space. You have to remove obsolete oackages. And more. On Ubuntu, the software update tool does all that, eliminating a lot of possibility for error. To an exoerienced user, the Debian process is fine. A novice would have plenty of opportunity for frustration and pain.

    • Pup Biru@aussie.zoneEnglish
      15·
      4 hours ago

      it was always wild to me back in the day when so many container images were based on ubuntu… was like PLEASE debian is functionally identical here at like 1/10th the base container size!

  • serenissi@lemmy.world
    10·
    5 hours ago

    I’ve seen 10-12W easily on 4K for soc without av1. your soc (intel 11 gen) should support av1. try to play the video on mpv (with yt-dlp integration) with various hw acceleration options to see if it changes. probably your browser is software decoding.

    for hardware decoding supported soc too I noticed 2-3W of extra power usage when playing youtube from website compared to mpv or freetube. the website seems doing inefficient js stuffs but I haven’t profiled it.

    • gnuhaut@lemmy.ml
      3·
      2 hours ago

      There’s a browser extension called “Your Codecs.” which can prevent YouTube from serving you AV1-encoded videos.

  • Mitch Effendi (ميتش أفندي)@piefed.mitch.scienceEnglish
    74·
    11 hours ago

    Honestly it’s a little staggering how much better web video got after the W3C got fed up with Flash and RealPlayer and finally implemented some more efficient video and native video player standards.

    <video> was a revolution.

    • FauxLiving@lemmy.world
      6·
      2 hours ago

      I remember, that was a dramatic change.

      Also, most people now dont remember this, but YouTube was initially popular because their flash video player was efficient, worked acrossed many different system configurations and browsers and dynamically changed resolution to match your connection.

      At that point you had some people with broadband connections and a lot more with dial-up. So often dial-up users would not be able to watch videos because they were only available in one resolution.

      YT had 144p (or less!) videos ready for dial-up users and higher resolution videos for broadband users and it automatically picked the appropriate video for the client. This made it so most people (dial-up users) would look to YT first, because you knew that YT would have a video that you could actually watch.

      Then Google bought them.

      • Mitch Effendi (ميتش أفندي)@piefed.mitch.scienceEnglish
        5·
        2 hours ago

        YouTube blew up the year I went to college and got access to a T3 line. 🤤 My school had pretty robust security, but it was policy-based. Turns out, if you are on Linux and can’t run the middleware, it would just go “oh you must be a printer, c’mon in!”

        I crashed the entire network twice, so I fished a computer out of the trash in my parents’ neighborhood, put Arch and rtorrrent on it, and would just pipe my traffic via SSH to that machine. :p

        Ah, and the short era of iTunes music sharing… Good memories.

        • FauxLiving@lemmy.world
          1·
          51 minutes ago

          Yeah, my high school had a computer lab donated by Cisco to teach their CCNA course. There were like 2 students taking the class and 25 PCs, so we setup one to run WinMX, Kazaa and eDonkey.

          They all had CD-RW drives. We were minting music and movie CDs (divx encoded SD movies were under 650MB so they would fit on a CD), and selling them on campus for $3-5. You could get a 100 blank cd-rs for around $40, so it was very profitable.

    • lightrush@lemmy.caOP
      10·
      11 hours ago

      Oh man, I was like a kid in a candy shop when I got my hands on Flash 4… built quite a few sites with it.

      • Mitch Effendi (ميتش أفندي)@piefed.mitch.scienceEnglish
        2·
        2 hours ago

        My unpopular opinion is that Flash was perhaps one of the greatest media standards of all time. Think about it — in 2002, people were packaging entire 15 minute animations with full audio and imagery, all encapsulated in a single file that could play in any browser, for under 10mb each. Not to mention, it was one of the earliest formats to support streaming. It used vectors for art, which meant that a SWF file would look just as good today on a 4k screen as it did in 2002.

        It only became awful once we started forcing it to be stuff it didn’t need to be, like a Web design platform, or a common platform for applets. This introduced more and more advanced versions of scripting that continually introduced new vulnerabilities.

        It was a beautiful way to spread culture back when the fastest Internet anyone could get was 1 MB/sec.

    • lightrush@lemmy.caOP
      31·
      12 hours ago

      It’s a Framework with 11th gen Intel i5. I’ve never seen it below 11W while doing this. I don’t recall the exact number I got in Debian 12 but I think it was in the 11-13W range. The numbers were similar with Ubuntu LTS which I used till about a year ago. Now I see 9-10W. The screen is 3:2 13". Not sure about the enconding but I have GPU decoding working in Firefox.

    • fuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      15·
      11 hours ago

      It’s a youtube video so whatever youtube is these days. I tested with this M1 Macbook Pro and it was using about 7 watts so 3 watts more is pretty good for pretty much anything. I think my 12th Gen. laptop typically draws about 13-15 doing the same thing, but with a much dimmer screen.