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YouTube is deliberately crippling Firefox on ARM systems (social.treehouse.systems)
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[–] Clbull@lemmy.world 21 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Asahi Linux?

They named a distro after a beer brand?

[–] autokludge@programming.dev 64 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years 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 12 points 2 years ago

... They named Macs after a beer brand?

[–] violetraven@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 points 2 years ago

That was fascinating. Thank you for sharing 💖

[–] bruhduh@lemmy.world 28 points 2 years ago

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