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YouTube is deliberately crippling Firefox on ARM systems (social.treehouse.systems)
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[–] Clbull@lemmy.world 20 points 10 months ago (3 children)

Asahi Linux?

They named a distro after a beer brand?

[–] autokludge@programming.dev 69 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

Asahi means “rising sun” in Japanese, and it is also the name of an apple cultivar. 旭りんご (asahi ringo) is what we know as the McIntosh Apple, the apple variety that gave the Mac its name.

[–] zalgotext@sh.itjust.works 14 points 10 months ago (1 children)

... They named Macs after a beer brand?

[–] RickyRigatoni@lemmy.ml 4 points 10 months ago

They named an apple after a beer brand?

[–] violetraven@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 points 10 months ago

That was fascinating. Thank you for sharing 💖

[–] bruhduh@lemmy.world 31 points 10 months ago

Lina asahi is steamer who reverse engineering apple m1 chip for Linux, so asahi linux was distro for apple m1 at first