Hmm, it's a bit cheaper here (I think - it's been a while!), but yeah.
Electricity is expensive here, I think the server setup draws 40€/month, but that is for the entire setup of course, not just pirating-related stuff; plus ~9€/month for the two usenet backbones, and a couple bucks for trackers.
My GF is VERY up to date on this (unfortunately? 😆)
That's mostly true, although you usually (in my case at least) I am aware of all shows I have available on Jellyfin, and it's only ones I like.
For discovering new shows to download, things like Jellyseerr actually do give recommendations... No idea how good they are though.
But frankly, Netflix used to recommend a lot of things that sounded interesting on the surface-level, and then turned out to be utter shit. Probably not an entirely bad thing to be lacking recommendations :D
For Non-English ones in my native language. There isn't a lot of them. AFAICT the one I mostly use is free for a handful of requests/day, but generously lifts that limit in exchange for a "donation" 😄
(It's only around 20/year)
Edit: and just to be clear, that one Tracker took us from "basically nothing is available in our language" to "literally everything is", so it's money well spent.
For a very long time, I was one of the people who kep saying:
"I used to pirate until Netflix came along; now I pirate because of the fragmentation of services; should a good service become available at a reasonable price again, I will be happy to switch back."
But at some point, that stopped being true. More precisely, my *arr-Stack + Jellyfin setup become so stable, I do no longer really think about it, while also getting better quality content, and often faster than I would due to global licensing shennanigans.
Another factor also is that at some point, we crossed the "enough content to mindlessly scroll until we find something to watch" barrier, which my GF actually kinda missed from Netflix.
The crazy thing though, is that we pay actual money for this: hardware cost; electricity; access to usenet trackers and two usenet backbones. All in all, I do not think it's cheaper than getting Netflix+Prime+Disney.
It's just better. And we will not be switching back, ever.
I'm sorry, but have you never had actual Cheddar?
If you are at all familiar with / interested in NixOS, there's Jovian-NixOS which essentially duplicates the SteamOS experience 1:1 (much more closely than, say, Bazzite imo), but allows you to easily switch to a different desktop environment like Gnome with just a single config option.
You can also selfhost sync!
You can also just selfhost Firefox sync!
Hahahaha
Naja, mussr du die halt in einer Sitzung essen :)
Hairspray is already a step too far for "just throw it up in a know" tbh
Danke!! Endlich sagt wer was!
Damn you sound envious