Streaming prices are out of hand. What are cheaper alternatives?
Here I was giving them training wheels, and you said, “Nah, here’s how you take a hairpin turn with a stick shift.” 😅
Don’t make me tell them about them about the *arrs, usenet and jellyfin. Minds will be blown :)
The *arrs + JF + sabnzdb + torrents = complete and total replacement.
That exact stack has been the ruin of many a poor boy.
Just a hop, step and a leap from there to Proxmox and complete ungovernablity (host ALL your own replacements - Immich, Syncthing, Lemmy instance, Pi Hole, Paperless, Calibre, Navidrome…all the black magics)
DANGER. HERE THERE BE DRAGONS. (Expensive ones)
Good sir, Tim Curry would greet you as a member of Flint’s own crew.
I’m on Android and using ArchiveTunes to stream free music. No more Spotify.
People stream?
Jesus dude, buy an android TV and use Cloudstream or Stremio and the cost will just be the device itself. If you have decent internet but your ISP blocks that kind of streaming traffic, use DNS over HTTPS
Piracy.
Your public library.
Consume less media in general.
Buy stuff once (eg: DVDs, drm free music)
Jump aboard, matey! The seas are always open and full of joyous plunder.
And piracy is still free, just as it has been my whole life.
Take what you can. Give nothing back!
But all jokes aside, do give back by seeding your torrents. Some stuff is hard to get complete copies because of leechers.
I never stopped. Welcome back, the waters fine.
Just steal everything. The powers that be rob you blind every day in a death by a thousand cuts kinda way.
They don’t give a fuck about you, don’t pay them any courtesies in return.
Yarr!
Harr
Fiddle dee dee
Do what you want, 'cause a Pirate is Free!
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dont use imperialist american services
you can watch movies for free https://fmhy.net/video
👉 Your local public library. You can borrow movies and books. Return them so someone else can use them too. Not run afoul of the law. Libraries are great!
Your library probably even has digital access to thousands of movies, books, and songs, so you don’t even have to leave the house!
That’s definitely true for books. I have an ereader and I often use my library account to add books on loan to the reader over the Internet. I don’t think there’s video available like that, but they do have physical media like CDs, DVDs, and BluRays.
Some do have streaming services. In Germany there is filmfriend.de for movies and the NAXOS Music Library. For big productions and everything else than classical music they still loan physical media, but it’s a good start.
Alternatively:
Give your former Netflix and Spotify subscription fees to the Internet Archive.
They are essentially a gigantic, global, public library.
For videos, how about just …. Not?
People used to be glued to the tv, the “idiot box”, consuming whatever media offered by a few dominant companies and on their schedule. Despite “free” (with ads) broadcasting we all opted for expensive (with ads) cable and let them drastically raise prices. We had a brief renaissance with streaming, lead by Netflix, but they’re becoming “the new ComCast”. Ever increasing prices, shittier service, hostile to customers.
Video is no longer the only option to decompress after work and they keep making it worse. It’s time to just say no
Genuinely pisses me off to read comments like this. People are asking for a solution to a problem and instead they get this self-righteous “oh why don’t you just do something entirely different” shit. I swear it’s 100x worse on Lemmy than on Reddit too.
I know it isn’t coming from a place of ill intent but still.
Not streaming and finding a different way to enjoy your time. Honestly, at this point, I’m getting less interested in things I enjoyed as a younger person and more wanting to do models and tabletop things I can now afford to buy.
I think that’s a great comment to make under a post that asks about hobby ideas. Some people work 12 hours a day and just want to watch a show or movie when they’re too exhausted to do anything more active.
The quality of popular media has declined, but I still like watching DS9 when I’m tired, for example. I have other hobbies, but they take energy and have a different sense of enjoyment than a piece of media I have fun with.
It’s always appropriate to talk about getting into hobbies. Not all are strenuous or high energy. Even just reading about your hobby is good as well. Most of us have time and energy to get online and talk on platforms like this. Why not discuss it with others as well? I’m offering something that isn’t piracy, not that I think anything is wrong with it, but because people don’t consider alternatives to what they do on the norm.
How do you know that?
I have a friend who recently retired and is building all the Lego sets he could never afford to buy!
yo ho, all hands, hoist the colors high
heave ho, thieves and beggars, never shall we die
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This. This has always been the better alternative and this always will be the better alternative!
