XPost: comp.os.linux.misc, alt.comp.os.windows-10   
   From: robin_listas@es.invalid   
      
   On 2025-07-17 23:22, VanguardLH wrote:   
   > "Carlos E.R."  wrote:   
   >   
   >> VanguardLH wrote:   
   >>   
   >>> I can't see someone watching a laptop while exercising on a stationary   
   >>> bike needs to be doing word processing, graphical editing, or anything   
   >>> of much strain on the hardware.   
   >>   
   >> Oh, some videos overload another one of my laptops (too small, Lenovo,   
   >> fanless) and my mini-PC MSI Cubi N aka acting server. I did not try on   
   >> the Compaq. Usually videos done at 4K and/or h265. Some youtubes   
   >> overload firefox on those machines and can't watch at full screen.   
   >   
   > Try a Chromium variant web browser (e.g. Edge, Brave, Vivaldi).  I gave   
   > up on Firefox: too slow to run many scripts (so slow that, at time, I   
   > think Firefox or the site is dead), unreliable rendering (too many sites   
   > I hit couldn't display properly in Firefox), so I finally quit using   
   > Firefox after many years of using it.  Mozilla forced me to switch.   
   >   
   > Are you always watching videos in a web browser?  Or downloading them to   
   > watch locally, like capturing them (e.g., yt-dlp) using VLC to view   
   > them?  Highly scripted web sites can generate more heat with more CPU   
   > cycles than watching the videos locally.  Because many sites have   
   > dynamic web pages (scripted, and keep changing), the web browser can   
   > consume more power while you do nothing but site at a web page, because   
   > of all the scripting.  Ad/content blockers can help eliminate some of   
   > the bandwidth and superfluous scripts.   
      
   I typically watch youtube on the youtube site with Firefox, with an add   
   blocker. I tried two different channels that gave me some trouble months   
   ago, but today they run at perhaps 60% CPU, so there has been   
   improvement in that front.   
      
   I don't use Chrome because it doesn't allow to run add blockers   
   recently. They removed the extensions add blockers use.   
      
   Sometimes, with very recent videos, download in advance means I have to   
   wait significant time for the download to finish, it doesn't download at   
   full speed anymore.   
      
   --   
   Cheers, Carlos.   
      
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