• Dyskolos@lemmy.zip
      6·
      3 天前

      Exactly. Movie? Enter name, wait a minute, watch. Series? Enter name, wait a while longer, watch.

      • Modern_medicine_isnt@lemmy.world
        2·
        3 天前

        My understanding is that not everything is available that way though. I had a friend say they tried to get star trek the motion picture. And while it was there. A month later he still only had half of it. Thats a pretty big name movie to be so hard to get.

        • Dyskolos@lemmy.zip
          1·
          3 天前

          Depends. I never have had anything that’s not available. Except one older series that wasn’t available anywhere, not even streaming legally. And for dubbed shit it can be more complicated. But i rarely consume that. I use usenet btw with only two indexers. Could add more and even torrents too, that might even make it better. But i would already be fine with just one indexer at all.

        • Rekorse@sh.itjust.works
          2·
          3 天前

          The problems I have are for very specific categories. A lot of the reality tv isn’t available because they are meant to be watched during the time period they air. The more popular ones are still there, jersey shore for example. Documentaries can be hit or miss, especially the ones that were released for free already on a random site or YouTube. You can always download those directly from the web page though.

          Sometimes I have trouble with very old seasons of shows. Usually its easier to find an entire show torrent, but sonarr can’t handle multi-season downloads so you have to do it manually.

          I have more trouble with things that should be automated requiring manaual intervention than the things not being available at all.

      • But_my_mom_says_im_cool@lemmy.world
        44·
        3 天前

        This is why pirating isn’t an option to most people, you need like 4 apps and a dedicated pc running as a server to match the one click ease of streaming services, it’s ok for me but I get why my parents or less tech savvy people would be unable to figure it out

        • Thief@lemmy.myserv.one
          21·
          3 天前

          Yes this is true today but dont forget that linux is just generally slow. As each app is a docker there is one day the possibility of someone rolling all 4 or 5 apps into a preconfigured single docker or app that can be a one click install, easy to use. It just hasnt happened yet due to time/lack of effort and so on. Open source is slow like that. Its a voluntary thing so these things always take years.

          • Trainguyrom@reddthat.comEnglish
            1·
            3 天前

            someone rolling all 4 or 5 apps into a preconfigured single docker or app that can be a one click install

            The reason each program does its own thing is for legal liability. One downloads what media you search for, it’s up to the person operating the software to choose media for which they can legal download. The next manages the metadata and organization of media but is up to the user to supply media for which they hold appropriate licenses to. Etc. Etc.

            By putting all of the pieces together into one package you lose that deniability of software which has legal usecases but happens to be able to be combined to do something illegal.

            You know how normies pirate? They find free/cheap streaming sites and hop from one to the next as they get shut down

    • PrettyFlyForAFatGuy@feddit.uk
      10·
      3 天前

      I dont like having DVDs everywhere.

      if they offered DRM free paid downloads so i could give them my money and just host it myself i probably would give them my money.

      but they don’t, so i sail

      • Endymion_Mallorn@kbin.melroy.org
        41·
        3 天前

        That is fair. But I’ve had more HDD failure than DVD disc rot so far. I prefer physical media which doesn’t require engaging my computer.

        • PrettyFlyForAFatGuy@feddit.uk
          3·
          3 天前

          You can mitigate against HDD failure with RAID and backups.

          I have two 8TB HDDs in a RAID1 configuration. if one dies i can remove the dead one and add a new one to the array and the data will sync back across from the good drive. I also have two 10TB drives in rotation going to offsite storage. every now and again i backup my server to one of these drives, take it to the place i store them and swap them over.

          Only thing i’m missing from the 321 rule is different mediums, considering the amount of data i’m dealing with though the cost of backing up to tape though was prohibitative

          • Trainguyrom@reddthat.comEnglish
            32·
            3 天前

            I swear when I first heard 321 it was “at least 3 copies of the data in at least 2 physical locations with at least one copy being offline” but now I’m hearing of different storage mediums instead of different locations

  • MochiGoesMeow@lemmy.zipEnglish
    8·
    3 天前

    Market trends have inspired me to make my own plex server on raspberry pi. It will be a fun project. :)

      • Zink@programming.dev
        1·
        3 天前

        Yeah. I just moved my Plex server to my newly rebuilt and Linuxized old gaming machine, a 9700K (8 core Intel) with 32 gigs of ram and a GTX1080 GPU. It is so nice having all that performance available, especially the GPU if somebody needs to transcode while watching.

        I can use that machine like normal without affecting anything streaming from the box. Next time I need to encode a video I’ll have to try watching something 4K transcoded to lower bitrate 4K/1080p at the same time to see if I notice anything.

    • Tja@programming.dev
      12·
      3 天前

      Unless you read the fine print, which redefines buying as “not buying, but give us the money anyway”

    • ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca
      3·
      3 天前

      Even after RD’s massive anti-piracy swing?

      I tried put.io and Torbox but they throw errors even when I can see they downloaded the torrent

      • kiagam@lemmy.world
        3·
        3 天前

        I didn’t know about any swing and started using it for the past month with no issues so far

        • can@sh.itjust.works
          3·
          2 天前

          French gov recently went after them and they made a big thing about not hosting copyrighted content, but as far as I can tell nothing’s changed.

          • Psythik@lemmy.world
            2·
            1 天前

            Their entire reason to exist is to host copyrighted content. They’re just telling the French what they want to hear to get them off of their asses.

      • Psythik@lemmy.world
        1·
        2 天前

        Never had any issues. It works perfectly when I use it with 1337x and TBP.

        Dont know why they’re beefing with those trackers specifically, but it doesn’t affect Stremio’s operations one bit. I can still stream any movie or show I want instantly to my TV.

        Alas, you can always use a different Debrid service. I simply prefer R-D because it’s the most popular, which means that tends to have more content available for instant stream rather than having to wait for seeds. Almost every torrent I want has already been cached by another user for instant download.

        • Darth_Mew@lemmy.world
          1·
          2 天前

          stremio and RD are not the same. if RD goes down stremio app/site won’t be affected just the addon

          • Psythik@lemmy.world
            1·
            2 天前

            Yes I understand that. I never said that they were the same. You don’t need R-D to use Stremio, but it’s a much smoother experience if you do, cause you can stream instantly without waiting for seeds.

            The point I’m making is that any drama involving R-D beefing with trackers doesn’t affect the amount of content available on Stremio. Other trackers exist to fill in the gaps. That’s all I’m saying.

          • can@sh.itjust.works
            2·
            2 天前

            I didn’t know for months either until I was trying to help someone find an elusive pdf only available there. Were close to just making a scribd trial when I thought to try.

            Haven’t tried recently but it likely still works.

            Edit: still does!