The average user is a complacent meat bag ready to take whatever corporations want to shove down their throats. So for anyone capable I highly recommend torrenting absolutely every piece of media you consume, and simply buying a physical disk if you want to support said media. If the media doesn’t have a physical way to buy it we’ll fuck them, just steal it
cleverusername@lemm.ee 2 years ago
Streaming companies seen to think we’ve forgotten how to torrent and built a media box…
Zetta@mander.xyz 2 years ago
cleverusername@lemm.ee 2 years ago
I recently realised that my internet uplink is fast enough to stream 1080 to 3 family members, aka meat bags, and opened up my Plex server to them.
Zetta@mander.xyz 2 years ago
Lol, you are doing good work!
blindsight@beehaw.org 2 years ago
It’s even easier than that, now. For like $20/6 months, you can get a debrid service account that will host everything (that’s not obscure) for you. Hook it up to an app like Stremio and you basically have Netflix for all media. It even has panels for show/film discovery, sorted by genre categories.
The only big difference is that you select the quality of stream you want each time you start playing something.
I was going to set up my own system, but a debrid service is cheaper than buying the hard drives and a lot easier to set up.
chauncey@hexbear.net 2 years ago
Got any links to help me learn about building media boxes?
cleverusername@lemm.ee 2 years ago
Basic PC running Plex server and an Android TV box at the TV. Simple as.
Automated_Footprint@sh.itjust.works 2 years ago
Jellyfin > Plex
cleverusername@lemm.ee 2 years ago
It just works… That’s it, that’s all I care about, chuck media is a folder and watch it on my TV or my kids devices.
scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 2 years ago
We are the minority though. 99% of people will happily drop their pants and bend over just to not lose their streaming services. Look at Netflix and their ad tier and cutting of sharing.