• Xanthrax@lemmy.world
    205·
    2 months ago

    Switch to streaming and use ad blockers. It will be 720/ 1080p max, though. Most people won’t notice. There’s a guide/ wiki on a specific lemmy community.

    Also, be honest. Your partner might be tech savvy and not be able to afford entertainment as well. Go for it. That’s how I found my partner.

      • SirDerpy@lemmy.world
        61·
        2 months ago

        If there was a reasonably-priced ad-free service

        Then I’d still not buy because typical services won’t fool me a third time. Reasonably priced ad free were called cable TV and Netflix. Then, each put ads in and hiked prices. The enshitification of Netflix is now common example of the commodification of an IT product or service.

        We created atypical services for reasonably priced ad free content. It now costs me about $120/yr for whatever typical domestic or foreign programming, without ads. For $60/yr it’s domestic programming and few hours instead of a few minutes to grab a program. I also donate directly for some streaming content I enjoy, such as agadmator chess, then watch with an ad blocker. Both are reasonably priced and ad free.

        • flying_sheep@lemmy.ml
          1·
          2 months ago

          Ha, I mean, it’s not like there is a huge buy-in. If there was a good convenient service again, I’d start using it. When it invariably it goes to shit, I’ll stop paying and go back to downloading. Just like I did with Netflix.

          If enough people stopped paying because of their bullshit, maybe that would pave the way for a a platform where you actually feel like you own the shit you paid for.

          • SirDerpy@lemmy.world
            22·
            2 months ago

            Ha, I mean, it’s not like there is a huge buy-in.

            If one does the math for an average single income US household, a modest broadband connection is 15-20% of their disposable income. They survive on metered cellular.

            If there was a good convenient service again, I’d start using it.

            I’ll stay right where I’m at, paying less for more and giving more to content creators of substance, and with the convenience of a stable system.

  • ArbitraryValue@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    2211·
    2 months ago

    1. Meet woman, don’t be weird.

    2. Gradually build a loving, trusting relationship.

    3. She has to get surgery and she’ll be bed-bound while she recovers.

    4. “Will you take care of me, Anon?”

    5. Lord of the Rings marathon. The director’s cuts. She can’t run.

  • Vivendi@lemmy.zip
    481·
    2 months ago

    Look, there are enough women in the world for you to stop thirsting after someone who’s just not right for you

    If you’re geeky you need a girlfriend that at least vibes with that even if she’s not into it herself for fucks sake

  • Death_Equity@lemmy.world
    1121·
    2 months ago

    Anon doesn’t know about streaming sites.

    One site, no torrents, legally good(so far), and all you need is basic ad-blocks to enjoy a Netflix like experience with a better interface.

    She deserved a pirate Chad, and she knew it, he has spaghetti falling out his pockets like a soyjack.

    • VeganCheesecake@lemmy.blahaj.zone
      38·
      2 months ago

      Torrents tend to be more reliable quality; around here, they’re both equal in legality/illegality, and you don’t have to think about your Internet connection.

      The actual trick is having done it earlier, not trying on the couch right beforehand.

      • blargerer@kbin.melroy.org
        122·
        2 months ago

        In many places there is a big legal distinction between consuming and distributing copyrighted content, when torrenting you are doing both.

      • Frog@lemmy.ca
        3·
        2 months ago

        Torrent is more reliable than paid a services like Prime Video. My wife got pissed watching one of her shows on Prime. It kept on buffering and quality was trash. I torrented the entire season, put up a JellyFin server. She was so happy.

        Tldr: Prime video is trash.

    • Zron@lemmy.world
      33·
      2 months ago

      You can also press one button to configure a torrent to download first and last, allowing you to play a video while it streams in.

      Anon can’t even torrent right, she just got scared that he’d be too stupid to put on the condom right.

    • MindTraveller@lemmy.caEnglish
      72·
      2 months ago

      This test is gonna filter out any girl who’s smart enough to use Plex with her xbox

  • Dr. Wesker@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
    56·
    2 months ago

    It’s Usenet babe. Get this… it’s been around since 1980! Isn’t that wild, babe? It just goes to show, if a distribution system isn’t broke, don’t fix it.

    • kasuaaliucceli@sopuli.xyz
      18·
      2 months ago

      Hahah I was gonna come mention Usenet but glad you already did.

      A month ago I was frustrated waiting on some torrent and decided to finally give Usenet a try. All I gotta say is - why didn’t I do this switch years ago???

        • kasuaaliucceli@sopuli.xyz
          3·
          2 months ago

          Yeah there was a lot of googling duckduckgoing at first. In my case I decided to start out with NewsHosting as provider and nzbgeek as indexer. So far so good

        • Dr. Wesker@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
          212·
          2 months ago

          Yearly rates for a provider and 2 indexers still doesn’t come close to the cost of all the streaming subscriptions you’d need to have the same library access. Coupled with the ability to use RSS feeds and other homelab services to essentially automate your collection, it’s just absolutely worth every penny.

          But I wouldn’t know firsthand, because I’m a law abiding citizen, and this is all hypothetical. I just read about it on the internet somewhere.

        • kasuaaliucceli@sopuli.xyz
          5·
          2 months ago

          IIRC that might have been the reason I previously disregarded the idea of trying Usenet. However if it’s not on Usenet, one can always fall back to torrents :p Haven’t had to do that yet. *knocks on wood*

            • MrNobody@sh.itjust.works
              4·
              2 months ago

              Retention for 90%+ of providers is at least 4500 days for binary files and 110000 days for newsgroups. Have two providers, one monthly and one block, that run on different backbones with one that takes down for dmca and one that doesn’t and you’ll be fine. There are very very very few shows or movies that you can’t get. Don’t have to worry about VPN, ratios, trackers or any of that other crap.

            • threeganzi@sh.itjust.works
              1·
              2 months ago

              Thanks! And sorry, I meant to say that I don’t know how Usenet works, not you.

              Follow-up question. Why is retention so important? Wouldn’t they get reuploaded again? Or is it mainly a problem for more obscure content.

              • ryannathans@aussie.zone
                2·
                2 months ago

                Torrents persist until all seeders disappear for good, which is rare on private trackers. On usenet generally content is uploaded ASAP upon release and then only lasts as long as rentention. Maybe you’ll get rereleases on usenet but it didn’t seem to be a common occurance

  • Agent641@lemmy.world
    52·
    2 months ago

    My family has learned not to ask questions, just tell me the name of the movie or TV show in signal, and Ill let you know when its on plex.

    I know they dont understand. I see their glassy eyes staring past me if the compel me to explain. ‘But who puts it there, and what motivates them?’ they ask. They do not see the irrationally of their line of inquiry.

    But they have learned now. No questions, no complaints, just leave me a muffin when I’ve done a good job.

    • MystikIncarnate@lemmy.caEnglish
      2·
      2 months ago

      I set up ombi for requests, linked it into all the *arr’s and automated it to hell.

      I log in, click a button to approve it, let the system work for a bit and the system updates me by web hook to say it’s done, as it’s publishing the content on Plex.

      It all sits behind a pfsense system running a VPN service. So everything is automatic.

      It’s barely an inconvenience.

  • kameecoding@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    2 months ago

    Manual torrenting? Fucking hell, that’s some weak ass shit, i have all my shit on my plex/jellyfin server

    • u/lukmly013 💾 (lemmy.sdf.org)@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
      196·
      2 months ago

      I prefer NGINX with autoindex. Lightweight, no JavaScript, looks like every Linux ISO mirror, filenames already have all the required info, can be quickly searched with CTRL+F, fits perfectly to my laziness.

      If you want some improvement, you can use FancyIndex module.

      But the files need to be in codecs supported by your browser(s). I prefer AV1+Opus in WebM container which have been supported by Firefox for a while. At this point it’s really only Safari not fully supporting AV1 because it relies on hardware decoding and Apple wants you to buy new hardware.

      • ReallyActuallyFrankenstein@lemmynsfw.comEnglish
        42·
        2 months ago

        Sorry, your favorite media server is just files you play on a browser?

        I mean, not shaming, I just had never heard of that being preferable to Plex/Emby/Jellyfin.

        • u/lukmly013 💾 (lemmy.sdf.org)@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
          61·
          2 months ago

          Yeah, I am too lazy to set up something like Jellyfin. It only makes sense for me with music, for which I use Navidrome. But again, my setup is mostly directory/filename based, so it’s really being carried with m3u playlists as opposed to proper metadata.

          I mean, maybe I’ll use Jellyfin if I’ll do something in a proper way, but currently I don’t see the point of it. And anyway, I can always copy the URLs to VLC, which will even accept DVD ISO files.
          e.g.:

          vlc --no-dvdnav-menu http/dvdnav://192.168.49.1:8080/media/ISOs/Interstellar.iso

          let’s me play entire copy of a DVD, properly with menus and bonus features, just as if I used the DVD directly.

          Although I don’t do this anymore because of storage limitations, but I’ll likely return back to it once I’ll have a proper media server and LAN.

      • ricecake@sh.itjust.works
        8·
        2 months ago

        The biggest issue with that is it requires all of your media to be in a flat folder for search to work right.

        Auto index has a mode to return results in json. With a touch of html and js you can make a page that will crawl the directory tree and build a simple searchable cache of name to path, and then you can play it from there. It ends up making a request per folder, but in realistic terms it’s not gonna be enough to actually be noticable.

        You can then use something like this on a cron to convert anything your browser can’t play and you’re pretty close to a minimalist media server with only static files.
        The one I used to use was just a bash script so I didn’t have to wrangle python modules, but I can’t seem to find it.

        I ended up dropping it when I bought a nas with all that stuff built in and it generally made my life easier. Worth the money if you can afford it.

      • tan00k@lemmy.world
        1·
        2 months ago

        Do you just remember where you are in every show (or movie that you only partway watched)? That’s the biggest appeal of jellyfin/plex to me, so I can go in and continue from where I left off without keeping track.