On Thu, Jan 23, 2025 at 11:14:10AM -0500, Hendrik Boom wrote

> Just curious -- does Netflix's work on chromium?

Apparently yes. You need the "Widevine Content Decryption Module"
installed, and you need any extension that'll let you spoof your user
agent. See the bottom post on webpage...
https://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?t=315627 for details. The
post is from 2020, so you'll need to spoof a more modern version.

Migrating my profiles from google-chrome to chromium was easy...

* Ensure that no instances of chrome or chromium are currently running
on your system

* cd ~/.config

* mv chromium chromium.bak

* cp -a google-chrome chromium

Note that ~/.config/chromium may not exist if you haven't run chromium
yet. The above instructions copied over my chrome profiles "lock,
stock, and barrel". I got all 3 of my profiles (default, Youtube, and
broadbandbulletin.com, "the spiritual successor to DSLReports". There
are a lot of familiar names from DSLReports there).

One problem with Chromium on Gentoo... it took *OVER 18 HOURS* to
build Chromium, and its dependancies, from source "the Gentoo way").
This was on an "Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-10400 CPU @ 2.90GHz" with 12 (yes,
TWELVE) gigs of ram and 6 cores running gcc with MAKEOPTS="-j4". And
Chromium updates often. I've already sent out a test email from the
Devuan machine. Once I get a few loose ends wrapped up, I'll switch to
it as my primary machine, and nuke+re-pave my Gentoo machine with
Devuan.

--
Walter Dnes <waltdnes@???>
There are 2 types of people in this world
1) Those who can extrapolate from incomplete data