Honestly I put up with doing that when the prices were better. After damn near 15 years I had to dust off the hat and sail the seas. It forced me to learn how to set up a home server which I’ve never even entertained the idea of until now.
I’m about to be in the same boat (pun intended). I think I’m going to learn to use Linux and set up a home media server at the same time.
Call me if you need help ;p
I fully expect to post my noob questions about Linux here on lemmy. Seems like the perfect place for it.
Kind of a cool hobby, you will have your problems in the begging but as soon as everything is set up stable, it is quite convenient. I personally use openmediavault (Debian based) as my host OS and Docker containers for all services I host. I can highly recommend Jellyfin for your own media streaming service
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I used the guide from this guy when I built mine and it was immensely helpful in getting the storage system up and running. That docker-config file shared in another comment is also pretty handy.
I have a fledgling Plex server, on windows not Linux, and it has been shockingly easy so far. I would say I’m better than the average person at tech stuff but I’m far from some uber nerd who knows the ins and outs of everything computer related and I’m doing just fine so far
I’ve got a docker-compose file that will spin up a full Usenet stack plus Transmission on a VPN and Plex if you want it. Way easier to implement than installing them all as services on Linux.
Hyperlink, please!
Whatever you do, do not use this to steal anything. You have one week.
Yrah, I went land lubber for a few years there too. Now I’m back flying the black flag and teaching friends. I’m starting to learn about plex too.
I just made a jellyfin server myself but have a ton to learn about it.
Don’t forget that when you search you also need to wade through AI-generated SEO trash that doesn’t actually tell you which service it’s on.
I use aggregators like Plex and Google TV to tell me, but even then it’s a pain and not always correct
I’m so fucking done with the garbage AI articles that give nothing. Do nothing. Just waste time and space to try to eat up and revenue I don’t even give because I have ad blocker sup to wazoo. If I had any way to punish them for the damage it’s doing to the internet I would in a second.
It’s almost like they want us to pirate shit.
It’s a consequence of only thinking one quarter at a time.
If all the content creators pooled their content into one platform and split the profit based on viewership, they’d be making far more money on the deal. I’d gladly pay $50/month for access to everything in one place.
Isn’t that just YouTube TV?
No, YouTube TV is basically just cable TV over the internet.
No that’s Floatplane. If it were successful.
I pirate it, simple
He’s a Pirate theme starts
Just as annoying, only cheaper.
I type it in Radarr or Sonarr and let my -arr stack work its magic. Depending on how popular a show or movie is, I can watch it in a few minutes on my Kodi TV. Wouldn’t really call it annoying.
Check out overseerr. You can search for movies or tv shows from there and it will request to radarr and sonarr for you. But what’s nice is it shows you all the popular shows, gives your recommendations, you can search by streaming service if you want.
Overseerr has been a game changer for my Plex/jellyfin which I share with 10+ friends and family. They submit tons of requests and it all automatically shows up on my nas without me needing to be bothered. I used to only download what I wanted and only take special requests and only for movies or completed series because I didn’t want to be harassed every week for the latest episode. Now my recently aired row is a constant stream of new episodes aired that week and I get friends saying “oh I didn’t know you had series x, now I don’t need that streaming service” - it’s not obvious to them still that I can get almost anything if they reauest it and overseer makes it so frictionless.
Learned my lesson on this. Ended up with a ton of 1mbps 1080p files that look terrible. All depends on what show/movie and absolutely based on what sources I had. I’m sure other people’s setups can acquire better files on average.
I just prefer to download manually these days.
Understandable. I haven’t had any of those problems, even though I only use some free torrent trackers. Unpopular stuff (local shows that aren’t in English for example) can sometimes take a while, so I’m thinking of subscribing to some paid usenet indexer.
If you find it annoying, you’re not doing if right
Nah I got a website that has all the media
I’m in an invite only site that I’m not going to name and there hasn’t been a single instance of something not being uploaded there that I wanted to watch.
When you say uploaded, do you always “need” to download it or can you simply stream?
Download. I have fast internet so I don’t really care about streaming + I like to archive rewatch worthy shows. An entire season of a show takes only a couple minutes, then it’s accessible on my plex server.
I love all of that, I just wish there was an easy way to have a media player that reads of an SSD (10+ TB or some shit) and doesn’t have some arbitrary storage limit that it cant read off of past).
Anyone have success with like a specced-out Mac Mini and that XMBN or Kodi thingy? Im the oldes young person aha
Yo ho
Yo ho
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Just Watch is a great app for finding out where something is.
Yes. It is fucking ridiculous that we need an app to find this stuff, but at least there’s an app…
movie-web.app is also a stellar source for finding out where movies can be streamed!
Kill the dvd and blu ray.
Because nobody wants that stuff. It’s old and uncool. Streaming is it.
Now we own nothing.
I own a self-managed server full of content - does that count?
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Well password sharing used to be a bigger thing
I’ve been on three, and Prime’s decision to have ads on a paid for service has seen me cancel that.
Swapped it for a VPN and went on a smash and grab of all the stuff that hasn’t been on streaming for the last few years, and frankly, the others are on borrowed time now as well. Mike Flanagan is almost single-handedly keeping my Netflix subscription alive.
Freebee on Prime is the absolute worst. They don’t even offer the OPTION to pay more to not have ads on Prime videos.
I’m already paying for Prime, so I fell 100% justified in pirating ANY content they throw ads onto.
U need to understand the block that contains my origin.
Yeah, I watched a couple of things on it and the ad was like 30 second at the start only.
Then I watched more and it just started shoving them in wherever so I gave up on it. Fuck them.
I just pay for a vpn.
K thats not like a silver bullet, is it? I feel like thats sort of orthogonal even tho in letter you may be able to access all the shit. We need like a “Beeper” app for streaming services or something, I dunno
The VPN is for a torrent client. No need to worry about streaming services when you’re sailing the high seas instead.
Which one’s that and but can you literally stream without having to dwn to completion. I just wanna watch shit like a certain prime service but I hate having to readjust whatever to watch each subsequent episode/season. Just wanna netflix and chill dammit aha
Don’t even need a VPN, if you just want to watch in slightly iffy quality and audio. Still better than some of the crap down in the depths of Amazon Prime.
Stremio is kinda beeper for streaming. In stock config you can search a show ir movie and itl show where it’s available and has links to the right app if you have them installed.
Or you can install some plugins to sail the seas.
As in plugins to automate the auto-play ;) if you catch my drift?
Yeah the plugins are mainly there to provide a harbor for your ship.
Best part is that you can download the app from the playstore and the plugins are available trough the app without any external site.
With a VPN you can torrent shows/movies as soon as they’re out on streaming. How is it not a silver bullet?
Even with a VPN, finding out where stuff is streamed is difficult.
VPN is a security measure. It doesn’t tell help me navigate the millions of fake oppenhammer uploads
‘oppenhammer’
https://sh.itjust.works/post/8855128
hmm I know how to make a relative link to a community but not to a post…
Anyway, here’s the picture
It’s not hard at all to find legit torrents. I don’t even know where you’d find millions of fake ones.
Google. Google strikes down all the legitimate torrents from their search so you’re left with all the virus cesspits. I usually stumble into a few before finding a legitimate one
You’re doing it wrong. There’s plenty of resources on how to torrent safely. Start there to find reputable trackers. Don’t just download random shit off google.
Password sharing.
Might as well just pirate then because sharing passwords is not allowed either. It was deemed too consumer-friendly and thus abolished.
Might aswell, but you know how consumers are like.
Just pirate it.
Or buy that DVD
I have nothing that reads discs and haven’t for years.
I have a 4k Blu-ray player because my wife felt the need to spend the money. I think we’ve used it twice in the 3 years we’ve owned it. But my desktop has both a Blu-ray and a DVD drive, they get enough use I’ve already had to replace the Blu-ray once, and the DVD is starting to get wonky.
I can’t find the DVD tray on my chromecast, should I flip it over?
If someone likes DVDs such as the person in this twitter post then a dvd player wouldnt be a bad purchase.
Disc prices are stupid now as well. Streaming seemed to kill off the year old bargain bin discs, so instead of picking something up for £3 or £5, the 4K discs are all like £25 each. They can suck my balls if they think I’m paying that.
Bring back DVD prices, and I’d cheerfully own some 4K discs again.
Well those are 4k discs not dvds
Just pirate lol
Shiver me timberrs
What do you mean? Arrr…
let’s sail the seven seas again me hartey
Ya salty dog!
This is by design. It’s the intent of copyright law to make getting copyrighted content a miserable deal for the customer and a great deal for the copyright holder, because the thinking goes that this encourages content creation. No technology is gonna change that, only changing the law will.
Yarr!
I haven’t had the need to sail the seas, since BluRays are still being pressed, and the local library has a bunch of them. Free of charge. Also found a use for my old PS3.
Yeah this meme (and most the folks in this thread) acting like you can’t just buy the disc still.
(Obviously there is some digital only stuff so I get pirating that but I see tons of obscure stuff coming to disc still)
It’s still not that easy.
“Hey this series seems cool, and 3 years ago it got a Blu-Ray release! …aand it’s sold out with the cheapest copy on eBay for double the price”
