I’ve been too poor this whole time, so the hat is firmly attached.
I’ve been aware long enough of big gaps in the libraries of streaming services that there was never a reason to give it up.
It took until fucking March of this fucking year for Spotify to have any old De La Soul to stream. Good thing I’ve had a high quality rip of their early discography for fifteen fucking years. Otherwise I would have been shit outta luck on listening to them.
I couldn’t stream a killer album from fucking 1989 in 2022. There continue to be massive gaps in their libraries due to licensing issues and people who just don’t want to get underpaid by Spotify.
At least the De La Soul situation was understandable. Imagine the amount of time it must have taken to track down and relicense every sample.
I’ve been too cheap this whole time.
My man
I’ve just finished my setup with Radarr, Sonarr, Jellyfin, qBittorrent and nzb360. I’ve paid 120€ for proton vpn for 2 years, 200€ for m2 ssd for 4tb and a few bucks for domain to access my setup from anywhere. Also, I have a 1gb internet connection for 65€ pm…
So, I’m willing to pay… I don’t want to spend all this time configuring scripts and integrations(though it was fun 😁)… But paying for Netflix, Prime, HBO, Disney+ and not being able to watch everything I want, simply makes me angry and miserable.
Duck them all. Arrrrr
It also requires you to skip from page to page. You need a page to search to tell you what page to to go search for what you want to watch
Corporations had a good thing going on, they fucked it up.
Every time I see this meme there’s another platform on here
It’s Plex’in time!
I’m more of a Jellyfin person though (all hail open source!)
Does jellyfin support transcoded downloads already? Thats the only thing holding me back from plex. All my movies and shows are 4k no need to load giant 4k files to a phone when traveling.
Yeah, it also has hardware acceleration for on the fly transcoding. It needs some configuration to tell it what you’re running it on but nothing particularly major
Plex is getting worse tough just saying…pushing their own services and now they started blocking certain hosting providers.
As we approach every service charging $30 a month, there’s going to be a point where the average consumer will just give up.
Meanwhile, your seedbox will still only be $5.
That’s cheap. Where do I sign up?
I pay $5 for evoseedbox.
Don’t forget the price increase and drop in quality.
The price increase I can deal with. The drop in quality and getting rid of password sharing (after they actively endorsed it) is why they lost me.
Yeah, I used to turn to such activities because it was cheaper, now I do it because it’s simpler/easier.
Ah enshittification, making me not want to pay for your shitty services every god damn time.
Especially with Netflix increasing their prices again here in a couple months…
Who the fuck pays for more than one at a time anyway, I don’t mind fragmentation because I have no loyalty to one service and will move to one to watch it’s stuff, then move when i get bored of what it has to offer. Competition is always good. We shouldn’t have monopolies in any industry, including streaming
Pirating is just so much less hassle.
I disagree for the most part but if you already have a system for watching your pirated stuff sure, or if you just watch things at your computer desk.
Competition in a streaming service is an illusion that makes the overall service worse and more expensive. And it’s probably not viable long term. Why? Because there is no competition for any one show. If the platform were all streaming the same shows, that would be competition. Instead they simply share the service with each platform having its monopoly on the shows it streams.
You saying that shows don’t compete with each other?
They do not. You can watch and appreciate different shows. You may want to watch many of them. And watching one show will never replace watching another.
In other words, you’ve not seen farscape as long as you’ve not seen it, and the expanse or any other show ever will not change that fact. Hence no show is ever competing with it.
What they’re trying to do is to make a competition for your time and attention. But humans don’t work like that. Culture is a shared thing. Good shows will be shared and watched while bad ones will be forgeted. If you make more shows than people can watch and share, you’re simply wasting money. Which is why it’s not sustainable.
Competition for one show is another show. What else?
Ditto.
Canceling cable used to be, at the very least, a long, phone call that alternated between stretches of hold music dulling the senses and combative sales technique verbal jousting. Canceling a streaming service… I don’t think that has ever taken me more than four minutes of finding a webpage and clicking. The collective consciousness is in danger of forgetting/underplaying just how far we have come on this.
If pirating ever takes less than four minutes every other month, I guess it will have reached convenience parity. But it certainly wasn’t that back when I was in that game. And I really, really doubt it is now.
After you get it set up pirating is basically zero time. There’s some up front time costs learning how to automate everything but after that? Yar har
People are too lazy to manage when to subscribe where based on what’s on offer at any given time.
That’s it, that’s all there is to it.
I mean, I suck-it-up and sub to all of them. I hate the experience and my wife bitches at me at least weekly because it’s so much work to find and start a show (to the extent she ends up NOT watching the show she wanted, and leaves some stupid channel on at random). We are so close to cancelling all of them, not for the money but because the experience is complete ass.
Guess what I’ll be doing to watch my TV if we do that?
Original comic was 2019. What’s the point of adding 2 years?
Yo ho yo ho…
Yo ho fiddle, de dee
Some of us never dusted off that ole booty hat, arggggg!!
