Date: Sun, 22 Jun 2025 19:50:24 -0400 From: Aryeh Friedman <aryeh.friedman@gmail.com> To: Rick Macklem <rick.macklem@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-hackers <hackers@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: RFC: Can FreeBSD stream Netflix? Message-ID: <CAGBxaX=_zfmjJN31bKtn2SqAwnge%2BAuHu0V1rSZ=xJD3WUTfDA@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <CAM5tNy7Ze001V_98UGKHpV4knvf9qaSB3mZM1Z1F3QjF3McnrQ@mail.gmail.com> References: <CAM5tNy7Ze001V_98UGKHpV4knvf9qaSB3mZM1Z1F3QjF3McnrQ@mail.gmail.com>
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You can get brower extensions that will lie about the user agent to make it look like it basically any browser on any OS you want. On Sun, Jun 22, 2025 at 7:48 PM Rick Macklem <rick.macklem@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi, > > When I'm not tinkering with NFS I'm just a dumbass user, > so here's a dumbass user question... > > The background (you can just skip to the question at the end > but maybe you'll find this useful. > I have two old Dell laptops (6420s) that I picked up used and > they've done ok, but both now have flakey hdds. > > #1 - hdd died completely, so I installed FreeBSD and it went > pretty smoothly. It runs Xorg, KDE etc and works pretty well. > But I can't get it to do one all important thing. > Stream Netflix. (I've tried assorted browsers, but always get > the "you should upgrade your browser" treatment.) > > #2 - Runs Win10 and does stream Netflix, but is throwing lots of > hdd errors, so it only a matter of time before I'll need to > replace the hdd. Once I do that, I have three choices: > a) Install FreeBSD, but only if I can get it to stream Netflix. > b) Install Linux. (Some posts claim Linux distros with up > to date browsers can stream Netflix?) > c) Install Win10 and run FreeBSD in a VM or dual boot it. > > I'd prefer (a), which leads to the all important question... > > Is there someone out there that runs FreeBSD on a laptop or > desktop who can stream Netflix? > If you can answer "yes", can you recall how you installed it > to make this work? > > Thanks in advance for any answers, rick > -- Aryeh M. Friedman, Lead Developer, http://www.PetiteCloud.org
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