Things are so tight that 1 streaming service would be an irresponsible expense for me. $15/month for an expense that can be circumvented if you're smart, its a no brainer. I feel like society has done more harm to me than any amount of piracy will ever do to them. Where are all these high paying jobs I was promised I could have if I got a degree, huh? I'm worse off now than before I made the decision to go to school. It's pirated or nothing for me but it's also more convenient. That enshittified corporate ui shit is slow.
Things are so tight that 1 streaming service would be an irresponsible expense for me. $15/month for an expense that can be circumvented if you’re smart, its a no brainer
Well obviously that means that you just have to stay in silence and watch nothing all the time.
Piracy is wrong and immoral and you should never deprive a billion dollar corporation that's keeping over 99% of the money the actors and production crew are making
There are people who understand what I'm saying...then there's the guy or lady I'm replying to right now.
love sonarr, radarr however never quiet worked for me. It doesn't like my network drive and then when I got around that it had this bad habit of downloading movies it already knew I had again...
Older geek here. I started with Plex and torrent. Added sonarr. Researched and switched to jellyfin. Learned about arr stack. Moved services to docker.
It's now super low maintenance. If I need to update a service, I just kill and recreate it. I have a second machine for media storage.
I think I spent a weekend building the arrstack and I have a few days total working on the home made NAS.
I know this person and, honestly, it's a thing of majesty. These discs have presence, heft, and are valuable. They're collectors items on some level - every last one of them. So what if we're watching "Jaws" or "Aliens" for the 400th time. We're having a real, visceral experience here.
I'm exaggerating here, I only have about 200 laserdiscs. That's just a portion of my physical media collection. But I do really enjoy them. My toddler calls them "big movies" and we've watched Bambi I don't know how many times. And hell yeah, Jaws and Aliens! I have the Criterion release of Silence of the Lambs, and that has also gotten a lot of play time.
Not to be a buzzkill, but lemmy.world has a rule against posting links (even obfuscated links) to pirate sites. You may want to edit that post to at least remove the TLD.
And maybe about a minute or so more - absolutely not because I wanna cause any discomfort, I just need to process the shock & loss (maybe some abatement issues) to be able to physically move away, back home to my def-not-up-to-date Jelly Fino (thats the name of my main instance).
(Actually I really should update my Jellyfin client on Tizen ... or buy a N100 player or something.)
Usenet is the way but I've never witnessed someone who torrents see the light in a penny comment thread. Few people truly understand opsec and how to quantify their own risk surface, but those who do will gravitate towards Usenet.
Speed is also a factor. Casuals don't understand what it is to grab a release before a torrent has found the first seeder.
Many don't know about usenet. When you only download using torrents and don't know anything else, you might look into it after reading something about it here. It's how I found sonarr and radarr, by reading about it on reddit.
About the speed: Oh, that's such a difference. I download with roughly 100MB/s constantly, which is the max write speed of my drives (1000mb/s connection). I've never reached anything like that with torrents.
New movie? Sure. Let's download the 46GB version. 10min later and it's downloaded, extracted, renamed, put in the right folder, added to Kodi ready to watch, including subtitles.
Because paying for usenet means paying for privacy rights. Next to that, law enforcements are actively hunting uploaders, not downloaders. Usenet is much faster. Constant uploading is less energy efficient as it requires more pc power (especially when uploading loads of data) so it costs you more power, slows your pc, keeps your hard drives actively running which wears them down (as I imagine you don't have 32TB in SSD). With torrents you need to keep them uploading to get ratio on the closed community sites, so it takes up much more drive capacity. On open sites you get loads of viruses and other junk.
I use my upload speed for friends to stream the content from my NAS instead.
I got free vpn with my usenet account, for the price of a vpn account so I pay as much as you downloading torrents, if not less, assuming you're smart enough to have a paid vpn subscription. And this vpn is on top of SSL for extra privacy.
Is she from the Maxx? It was an animated show on MTV a long time ago. Her name is Sarah and there's a whole part where she gets a gun to defend herself but she always comes across as a little bit deranged.
It's an original character from @whoismonday on twitter ( https://x.com/whoismonday ) called "Mote".
The meme template used to have a doge in it but somehow this version got more popular recently.
Plex is pretty awesome, ngl. I always wanted to try jellyfin since paywall and all but since most people wont donate to open source to save their own lives, I really cant blame them.
I'm antsy about pirating software and games because of malware, but movies and shows? Just go to a reputable site and choose a torrent with a lot of seeds and it's pretty safe. Personally I have an old laptop dedicated to running a jellyfin server streaming torrents, so even if I did download malware there's nothing of value on the drive