annoyance: I have to keep Firefox installed on my Mint machine for the infrequent times I actually want to watch Netflix/Hulu because Linux Opera doesn't do DRM streaming content for some reason
That's literally my only complaint about Opera on any OS but it's a weird, annoying omission
@ShugoWah oh if you want flash in Opera and can't figure it out hmu
@SwooshyCueb It's not that, it's literally that Linux Opera doesn't support streaming content with copyright protection
@SwooshyCueb HDCP or w/e
@ShugoWah I think it's called widivine and I hate it
@SwooshyCueb yeah that sounds right
apparently you can do some dumb bullshit re: shadily downloading some kind of chromebook recovery image and extracting a DRM-enabled lib from it or something but fuck that, haha. I'll just watch it in Firefox
@ShugoWah @SwooshyCueb it's the same issue as chromium. they are licensed to distribute the web drm modules only on certain platforms and only in certain distributions.
web drm is a fucking plague and fuck the w3c people who thought it was an acceptable compromise.
@SwooshyCueb @shaderphantom the modern internet is a hellscape
@ShugoWah @shaderphantom let's make our own standards committee
With blackjack and furries
@SwooshyCueb @ShugoWah it's worse than that; implementing the w3c spec is easy, but it's basically just deferring to a proprietary black box module that the browser _may_ choose to support. like media formats in html5 media tags.
it functions more or less identically to NPAPI plugins like Flash. completely compromises the security model they set out to have when destroying NPAPI in favor of web platform solutions.
@shaderphantom @ShugoWah wow I really am in the worst timeline
@shaderphantom @ShugoWah so you need a license to distribute something that is required to implement a w3c specification
fuckin galaxy brain logic