• Pyr_Pressure@lemmy.ca
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    1 year ago

    After spending 10 years watching Netflix I’ve been driven back to piracy due to the amount of streaming options basically making it look like cable again. I don’t want to manage my subscriptions every month to make sure I’m paying for the ones that have the shows I want to watch.

    Cancelling shows, transferring shows from one to the other, moving shows from that basic plan you subscribe to into a higher tier which is even more money per month, etc.

    Now I pay $20 a year for an android box that streams pirated content from every streamer and movie releases. So much easier, I would pay $20+ a month for it if it were legal.

  • _number8_@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    the netflix thing was the most idiotic, obnoxious bullshit i’ve ever seen – really acting like using a website somewhere else was something THEY got to gatekeep and charge for. it’s not like they had to mail DVDs somewhere else, like it was a physical cost.

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      1 year ago

      Do you know how I watch movies? I got a single board computer running Linux that’s hooked to my TV. There, I open brave or Firefox with ad blockers and I search “Watch movies online” in a foreign language. Then I get to see any movie I want. Oh yeah, and I keep a VPN running at the router level, although it’s not really needed.

  • CriticalMiss@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    This meme was likely made in 2017 and is no longer the case. If I have to manage and shuffle my subscriptions according to the content they’re currently showing - then it isn’t slightly more convenient but the opposite. Meanwhile piracy is as easy as typing “moviename” into Radarr and voila, 1080p ready within minutes

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        1 year ago

        I’m a bit more old school in the way I do things, I usually read through the documentation first before installing software to ensure I optimize it to the fullest, however, writing “setting up Jellyfin/Sonarr/Radarr” in the YouTube search bar will lead you to a detailed tutorial for your respective operating system.

        If you’re completely new to self-hosting, install Ubuntu Server. If you’re a bit more experienced, go with Debian.