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If you're on a Mac and using FF (probably not FF specific), turning off "ambient mode" in youtube can save 30% cpu. I just found this out while searching why FF
by cronix 3y ago
If you're on a Mac and using FF (probably not FF specific), turning off "ambient mode" in youtube can save 30% cpu. I just found this out while searching why FF was taking 90% of my cpu while watching youtube videos in normal mode, but went down to 40% use if viewing in full screen. Turns out that this youtube "ambient mode" was the culprit. My lap is now cooler and the fan doesn't turn on anymore. I wonder how much power I've wasted due to this new "feature" they added 6 months ago that I didn't know about.
- emoII 3y agoSame behaviour for me using Safari.
- winter_blue 3y agoThis is one of the myriad reasons why I have a strong preference for Linux.
- fiddlerwoaroof 3y agoThis has nothing to do with macOS vs. Linux, though
- ezfe 3y agonot sure what your point is... ambient mode is a visual effects thing YouTube does and reading the descriptions, not surprised it causes increased CPU usage regardless of OS.
- DevKoala 3y agoSomething happens > This is one of the myriad reasons why I have a strong preference for Linux.
- xen2xen1 3y agoBecause browser users on Linux have never, ever been shafted by a browser bug? Riiiiiight.
- ok_dad 3y agoI just bought a Macbook because my dedicated Linux laptop, made by a popular Linux-only manufacturer, had so many issues that I got tired of diagnosing. I love Linux, but it's not a panacea for every computer issue under the sun, just a few of them. I, personally, am stoked I no longer have to deal with issues with this new machine, and can just take it into a Genius bar appointment to let someone else deal with it, for pennies a day. You can't get that on Linux! Feel free to tell me I'm a sell-out, I am happy to be one today.
- mbernstein 3y agoYou're a sellout but I am too, so welcome :).
- freedomben 3y ago> I, personally, am stoked I no longer have to deal with issues with this new machine, and can just take it into a Genius bar appointment to let someone else deal with it, for pennies a day. You can't get that on Linux! Honest question. If you could get that on Linux, would you? and what kind of pricing would you consider reasonable? Is it something that would have to come with the computer (i.e. would you pay for it separately or would you only use it if it was "free" aka included with your laptop purchase)? Did you stick with the vendor-provided install or did you wipe and install your own preferred distro?
- runnerup 3y agoI would pay the same amount for a Linux laptop that worked as easily as a MBP and had similar build quality, performance and battery life. Howver, whatever crazy-stable and easy to use and well supported hypothetical Linux this is wouldn’t be compatible with my “real” Linux use cases so I would then also install Arch or whatever and live with constantly borked everything and just swap between my Arch “Dev” OS and my “Linux Mac” business/work/consumer OS. Current Linux cannot be made “MacOS”-stable. But maybe in 5 years.
- b112 3y agoCurrent Linux cannot be made “MacOS”-stable. But maybe in 5 years. Stable?? Linux is a rock of stability, you must mean something else.
- sicariusnoctis 3y agoThis happens on Linux too. I was wondering if the weird CPU-hogging flickering was a bug in my compositor (picom) or window manager (i3) or browser (Firefox). Turns out to be a "feature".
- asvitkine 3y agoTo save a search: "Ambient mode uses a lighting effect to make watching videos in Dark theme more immersive, by casting gentle colors from the video, into your screen's background."
- tough 3y agoThey went for copying philips ambient lights on tv's but with software, what could go worng
- shrewduser 3y agooh i saw this happen to me the other day, i was wondering if it was a new youtube feature or something. can't say i care for it.
- LanternLight83 3y agoJust noticed it recently too, though it might have been an update to the stylus theme I use, I actually quite like it
- qotgalaxy 3y ago[dead]
- bee_rider 3y agoNeat idea, I bet the intern had fun implementing it, why was it on by default?
- tablespoon 3y ago> Neat idea, I bet the intern had fun implementing it, why was it on by default? Total speculation, but Firefox seems to be pushing out a lot of UI gimmicks. Maybe they're trying to drum up interest in the browser that way, since they seem intent on killing many of their other differentiators.
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- thih9 3y agoThis is why I like terminal, rss, or other technologies where it’s hard to add this kind of fireworks to the UI. When done right, sure, they improves the user experience by some percentage. But when done badly, the UX goes down by orders of magnitude.
- tiagod 3y agoIf you turn off your computer power usage goes to 0% too.
- thih9 3y agoNot for long! [1] It's an unconfirmed rumor for now; but perhaps we're heading there. > The iPhone 15 Pro and Pro Max will use a new ultra-low energy microprocessor allowing certain features like the new capacitive solid-state buttons to remain functional even when the handset is powered off [1]: https://www.macrumors.com/2023/03/20/iphone-15-volume-mute-buttons-cad/ https://www.macrumors.com/2023/03/20/iphone-15-volume-mute-b...
- xk_id 3y agoabsolutely. besides, graphical UIs bombard the brain with everyone's unique take on visual aesthetics, consuming limited mental resources like attention
- Tagbert 3y agoWhere is that setting? In YouTube Settings? I don't see it, there.
- erulabs 3y agoIt's not in the general settings - instead it's in the setting menu in the video player itself, where you'd select the quality and playback speed, etc.
- LegitShady 3y agoits not there for me. I dont see it in any settings anywhere.
- zamadatix 3y agoI don't see it either, maybe it's on an A/B rollout for desktop.
- cronix 3y agoIs Dark Mode in either your OS or Youtube turned on? It's not an option unless you're in DM.
- LegitShady 3y agoI stopped doing per-site dark mode and just use the darkreader extension, which is why this option was never there. I call it a win to not deal with per site settings.
- Tagbert 3y agooh, I never use dark mode so I guess that is why I don't see it.
- b215826 3y agoIf you use uBlock, add the following to the filters: youtube.com###cinematics.ytd-watch-flexy
- wslh 3y agoI think it is time to have a way to fine tune consumption based on settings. I assume the less complex way to do this is, really, use the telemetry information gathered.
- treis 3y agoSimilarly gifs and animated emojis in Slack chews up the CPU. Something like 20% at idle before I turned it off.
- xk_id 3y agoas I don't care about the comments section or the recommender algo, I search (youtube-fzf) and launch (yt-dlp + mpv) youtube videos directly from the terminal. i have a bash pipeline for this and, naturally, it is very resource efficient
- Affric 3y agopost the script pretty please
- hapticmonkey 3y agoI honestly thought my monitor or GPU was having issues with weird colour banding around YouTube videos. Turns out it was an intentional choice they made to do that. I don’t know why it’s on by default.
- waz0wski 3y agoOr stop using the crap YT frontent entirely - https://yewtu.be https://yewtu.be Run your own alternate frontend - https://github.com/iv-org/invidious https://github.com/iv-org/invidious
- bmicraft 3y agoThat site doesn't even seem to support anything over 720p, so much for crap
- leeman2016 3y agoWow! didn't know that. Very helpful
- zimmund 3y agoTo be fair this wastes CPU cycles in all platforms. And it probably took more human effort than keeping Google Reader alive FFS.