Recent reports have announced that Crunchyroll, the largest anime streaming service, will be replacing Aegisub with Israeli Software, OOONA, to produce subtitles more efficiently. Anime fans across the world are disappointed with this collaboration due to Israel’s ongoing genocide against Palestinians (via a report by the United Nations Commission of Inquiry).

Crunchyroll is also ignoring the needs of groups who require Closed Captions to understand the scenes better. They are isolating a large chunk of their audience in favor of AI-based subtitling, which defeats the point of a streaming service. Overall, this hasn’t been a great year for Crunchyroll, and this won’t be the end of it.

EDIT: Link was taken down thanks to someone in the comments here’s the archive for the page https://web.archive.org/web/20251004184506/https://fandomwire.com/crunchyroll-faces-cancelation-why-anime-fans-are-choosing-piracy-after-latest-update/

https://bsky.app/profile/lamhfada.bsky.social/post/3m2c3udxnjc2u

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      Honest question, did you try self-hosted music?

      Few weeks ago I thought this was a joke but… there is a TON of stuff out there already.

      From the “rough”

      to having mobile apps

      • navidrome (with updates via lidarr)

      to minimalist

      to federated

      to handling discovery

      … there is just so much out there!

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        Edit: since I wrote this message (15min ago) I setup LMS thanks to podman and shared it via ngrok and my wife can listen to my music on her phone instantly.

        So… yeah it’s that quick and convenient.

        Is it perfect, definitely not, but it’s also very quick to get started and to reconsider.

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          Spent another 5min to scp the container and ~/Music on my RPi5, which I keep on 24/7, has a 512Go microSD and tailscale… and I guess that’s it, I have my own music server. I don’t have discovery on though but still, already useful!

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            Another update on that front, I added on my RPi5 :

            • yt-dlp which I use with its -x audio only option on RSS feeds from DJs
            • tested then added that to nightly crontab to get updates
            • configured LMS for hourly database scan
            • tone in order to update tags on files and try to organize my ~/Music directory

            So it’s still nowhere near as good as the music streaming service I used so far BUT it’s getting there!

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      You could try moving to Tidal or Qobuz, they treat their artists better and there are tools to transfer playlists

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      Buying music on Bandcamp and similar has been good for me. When I got laid off I kept all the music I owned and didn’t have to pay anymore. All these subscription services suck.

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        I’m never, ever buying digital licenses to video or audio content. My limit is games because avoiding it is kind of impossible.

        Too many platforms close down. I’ve lost licenses from the Impulse acquisition and subsequent shutdown, plus one or two others. Any day these guys can just put up a 30 day notice and rip everything out of your library. Usually this happens after an acquisition… looks like bandcamp was sold in 2023 and the buyers shitcanned half the staff too.

        Disks are cheap and piracy works until they enforce digital IDs for all connectivity on the internet. At that point we’d be back to swapping thumb drives.

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          I only buy drm free music and then back it up somewhere myself. Bandcamp at least is drm free, but who knows if they’ll turn to shit after being bought and sold.

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      I was recently turned on to Stremio + Torrentio and it’s very good. I’m considering making a Pi5 device dedicated to it.

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        I have an old Pi floating around that I should probably look at using for stuff like this.

        Are they going to be around once Google removes sideloading from unauthorized devs?