I'll either watch pirated content or nothing at all. Having a bunch of streaming services that you pay out the ass for is a turn off for me because it suggests a lack of financial responsibility. Deal with it.
this post was submitted on 01 Aug 2024
790 points (96.3% liked)
Greentext
4482 readers
2449 users here now
This is a place to share greentexts and witness the confounding life of Anon. If you're new to the Greentext community, think of it as a sort of zoo with Anon as the main attraction.
Be warned:
- Anon is often crazy.
- Anon is often depressed.
- Anon frequently shares thoughts that are immature, offensive, or incomprehensible.
If you find yourself getting angry (or god forbid, agreeing) with something Anon has said, you might be doing it wrong.
founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
You do realize there's a middleground there, right?
I buy the content I want and rip it to my NAS to stream to my TV. My total cost is less than streaming services (I don't watch a lot), but I do pay for the content. So the only complication on my network is if my NAS turns off, in which case I'll just walk over and powercycle it and we're good. One great part is that if my internet dies (it seems to go out like once/month), I can still stream whatever, so my setup is better IMO than streaming services.
Subscriptions are for suckers, but that doesn't mean piracy is the only alternative. I only pirate stuff I can't get legally at a reasonable price (e.g. old movies/shows, streaming service exclusives, etc).
Exactly. Couple years ago when everything was on netflix I gladly gave them money but now it feels like every season of every somewhat good show is on a different platform.
Yup. That's why I cancelled my Disney+ sub (just bought the 3-4 shows my kids watch) and I'm pushing my wife to cancel Netflix. We'd rather not pirate, but I'm not going to keep paying for a sub that either has ads (screw that) or isn't worth the price of content.
I've been a Netflix sub for ~10 years, and now I'm trying to cancel because their value prop has fallen off a cliff.
load more comments
(1 replies)
Just rename Jellyfin into DisneyFlix++ or whatever.
Or use Kodi with that Netflix skin.
Or just share screen from your phone on TV.
You phone is always on VPN to home network, right?
Anon's gf is a normie
Setup Servarr and get all the women
My wife has learned the way of stremio and loves it, there is hope!
Yeah, I'm poor. Deal with it.
Manual torrenting? Fucking hell, that's some weak ass shit, i have all my shit on my plex/jellyfin server
I've had a lot of different setups over the years on my TV to see if my family (all "what's a computer?" level of computer illiterate) could get the hang of it, and the one that clicked for all of them was Stremio+torrentio. Pop in a debrid service to avoid downtime/buffering issues and they've never complained since.