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just fucking torrent it all you losers. a vpn sub is cheaper than netflix.
its really funny how this is so much the way cable went.
Yet one more thing pushing people to Piracy…
There is nothing more maddening than advertising during a show that wasn’t written for commercial breaks.
Stremio + Real-Debrid = adfree streaming.
JellyFin + your own media = ad free streaming. I detest ads and general streaming services. Whenever you want to talk about a show, you have to preface it with ‘what streaming service is it on’?
And you can watch it when your internet is down.
Sure but that requires infrastructure. Have you seen the price of storage these days?
It’s still not bad if you’re buying old SAS drives. At this point, anything 4TB or less is fine, and for most people that’s plenty to start with.
If you’re ripping DVD and BluRay content, you probably will gobble up space quickly without re-encoding it, but otherwise you can store content from streaming services with ease.
My point was more that Stremio with debrid costs maybe $50/yr and requires minimal knowledge/maintenance, as well as having other benefits (depending on the debrid service.)
If you have zero care in the world about storing the media, Stremio makes much more sense imho.
This will be the way for me going forward building storage and library. I’d rather don’t watch something than watch with ads.
Lemmy: Arrrr!
Big Tech: take away their PC and give them some completely locked down box fully under our control, to protect the children of course. And no more physical media!
The only answer to that is probably board games and books.
Team Arrrr here. ;-)
As much as people love doom mongering about big-tech coming for your PC, I just dont see it. There’s a temporary price spike in some components atm yes, but that will end when the AI bubble pops. Further than that I just dont see what people think is going to happen, outlawing linux? Banning the import of PC components? The amount of damage either of those would do to the economy is so huge It just wouldnt happen.
I have the feeling that the AI bubble isn’t going to burst as everyone expects, it will, but I don’t think it will restore prices to the good old days
Oh it will, but what it will leave behind is the same mess of big megacorps who will retain the technology and use it for evil…
you know, like normal.
Even if prices fall, the economic damage will be severe and nobody will be in the mood for spending much on components. Folks have already probems and jobs are cut at the height of the bubble so that’s not going to end well.
Age verification, id verification, mandatory DRM, only allow certified apps from official app stores, block systems not on the approved list from login onto sites, issues using school and government sites. Then payment processors get involved to refuse cash to those not following the program.
It’s a slow squeeze instead of outright ban that leaves Big Tech boxes and Dark Web boxes.
In retrospect, we dodged a bullet when the Internet developed the way that it did, in an open fashion, at Universities, largely by hippies (and, later, furries).
Remember Compuserve? And early AOL? I remember Quantumlink (Steve Case’s company that eventually turned into AoL) and how my parents had to pay for it by the hour.
Tech Companies wanted to erect tool booths on computer communication, just like the phone network, but the Internet (and it’s open architecture) beat them to the punch. They’ve been trying to fix that bug ever since. But they figured out that if the interconnect is open, they can still charge a toll if they have root access in the hardware at both sides. Once TVs became computers, it became so much easier.
None of those exist or, as far I am aware, are being proposed for computers though? Yes there are some restrictions being brought in to block access to some content on the web (DRM, ID and age gating) which are shit, but I’ve heard nothing about using any of that to block access to general computing.
No, these are things tested on gaming and phones. If it works and there isn’t much resistance it’ll come to regular computers too. First you had Steam for games, then came the iphone with an app store and then it became a thing in general computing. That’s how things go.
They don’t have to ban imports, just control WHO can import. And as long as those companies are jnder their thumb, they can control which consumers can have what.
On the damage side. Personal purchases of components pales in comparison to commercial. So they could live with damage to the personal sector. And of course it will make a whole new way for the to extract profit via yet another middle man.The AI bubble isn’t going to burst like you think. If it does, sure, component prices may fall, but most of us won’t have jobs anyways so we still won’t be able to afford them.
I think they make cloud gaming very cheap, so that at one point you just rent a system and can play all the AAA titles with Ultra graphics for like 20€ a month, so it’s not worth it anymore for the common gamer to invest into PC components. Then after they got you locked in the service will drastically enshittify. This in combination with locked up OSes due to all the age verification and think of the children surveillance. I am not saying it is likely to happen in the next 5 years, but at one day maybe? I mean the children nowadays are growing up with IPads and stuff, if they want to game they buy a console or a steam machine. When I was a kid it would have never been possible for me to afford a PC for gaming at these prices.
That’s already been tried though (google stadia) and it was a massive flop. There are limitations around latency that are hard physics based ones which wont be easily solved.
This is what happened to music and tv/cinema. Now that nobody has mp3 players or blu-ray collections, they force you to subscribe and STILL shove ads down your throat.
So Google Stadia 2.0, this time without a decent, unfixable controller with shit battery life but also one of the best D-pads known to man?
They already ban the import of some components. Apple is asking for special permission to buy from a banned manufacturer. This won’t hurt big tech, only the consumers.
The verge: “it started with ads and blabla”.
No.
It started when people were pirating and life was good. Then the streaming came with a good product and a fair price -> people agreed with that and people stopped pirating.
Companies started to enshitify the product, we are now at this point.
I am not suggesting you what to do.
But we all know what TO do.
Not even close
I love jellyfin streaming 😀
Same, works great, it’s my media, no ads, no issues. And no I don’t have to pay some $750 for a ‘PlexPass’ either.
This. Domain and static IP cheaper than streaming services.
Since when does a static IP address cost less than a streaming service? Domains sure. But a static is like $20-30 a month. I use dynamic DNS for any services that need to access the WAN side of my firewall (very very few) and I use tailscale for all things on my local network I need to access from outside. I would never let my media server or NAS touch the WAN.
It became the thing it sought to destroy: cable
… Ublock origin, Jellyfin.
No streaming then.
It really is. I’ve been using an Nvidia Shield for my living room TV. All of a sudden this week it showed a Lidl ad right there on the homescreen. Those fuckers. Replacement is on its way, fuck Nvidia.
All of a sudden this happened years ago.
- That’s Google, not Nvidia
- Just install another launcher like Projectivity
I had no idea, on both counts: that Google weedled its way in there too, and that a different launcher was even an option. I will look into that, thanks!
They didn’t weedle they’re way in, it’s a Google OS haha
oh 🤭
Yeh productivity is so clean after google and amazon etc. Is your interface not theirs.
I mean, yes fuck nvidia for sure, but I think those ads are via the googs. They have ramped up lately for sure.
In either case, I ignore them for now as I click into the jellyfin interface and enjoy my library.
I mean… I wouldn’t say that the 3€ I pay for my torbox monthly are so much money as to be considered a luxury but I guess not everyone can afford that much for a sub…
Good thing uBO exists, and uBOL for Chromium.
layers and layers. secure dns, UBO*, not paying streaming services… you know, the holy trinity.
Good thing Pirate Bay exists.
and qbittorrent :3
I am hoarding all the Linux ISOs.
Smart move. You’ll still be able to use them when the government tries to ban them for lack of age verification spyware.
firefox and ublock~
