Steam Hardware
A place to discuss and support all Steam Hardware, including Steam Deck, Steam Machine, Steam Frame, and SteamOS in general.
As Lemmy doesn't have flairs yet, you can use these prefixes to indicate what type of post you have made, eg:
[Flair] My post title
The following is a list of suggested flairs:
[Deck] - Steam Deck related.
[Machine] - Steam Machine related.
[Frame] - Steam Frame related.
[Discussion] - General discussion.
[Help] - A request for help or support.
[News] - News about the deck.
[PSA] - Sharing important information.
[Game] - News / info about a game on the deck.
[Update] - An update to a previous post.
[Meta] - Discussion about this community.
If your post is only relevant to one hardware device (Deck/Machine/Frame/etc) please specify which one as part of the title or by using a device flair.
These are not enforced, but they are encouraged.
Rules:
- Follow the rules of Sopuli
- Posts must be related to Steam Hardware or Steam OS in an obvious way.
- No piracy, there are other communities for that.
- Discussion of emulators are allowed, but no discussion on how to illegally acquire ROMs.
- This is a place of civil discussion, no trolling.
- Have fun.
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Welcome to the conversation.
Not to be snarky, but welcome to the true frustrations against corporations. They view linux users (like you now) as pirating monsters, and in their eyes giving us even 1080 means that they're giving their content over to pirates. Which is ironic because I think that sort of behavior encourages pirating.
So it's nothing you did, nothing is broken, it's functioning as Netflix wants it to. It'll be the same with all of the other providers.
OP is talking about YouTube and I can watch 8KUHD just fine on Linux.
You're right, subbed in Netflix for some reason - but Youtube TV though acts in the same way, I don't believe they allow anything > 720. Free youtube is different, paid Youtube TV will throttle
youtube.com/tv is/was the YouTube website optimized for big screens. It's basically just a different layout for regular YouTube.
Does changing the user agent work?
Pretending to be Chrome on Windows seems easy enough
Yes, there's an addon for Firefox that gives you Netflix 1080p without any downsides, probably just by changing the user agent for Netflix.
Really shows how utterly useless the restrictions are.