Lol. Lmao even.

    • JoeByeThen [he/him, they/them]
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      2 years ago

      I setup a jellyfin/arr server a few months ago on a chromebox. Been great. Put the app on all the TVs and now my propaganda is available all throughout the house.

        • JoeByeThen [he/him, they/them]
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          2 years ago

          It was definitely worth the time to setup. Feel silly it took me so long given how much it automates for me.

        • DoubleShot [he/him]
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          2 years ago

          If you find it too hard to figure out (as I did), there's always Emby too.

      • facow [he/him, any]
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        2 years ago

        And if you need to avoid nasty letters from your isp you can get a VPN. I wouldn't run all your regular internet traffic through it, VPN companies are pretty sketchy, but you can set it up so only your torrent client uses it. There are docker images with the torrent and VPN clients bundled which makes it super simple

  • MolotovHalfEmpty [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    Teslas are stupid, but this Netflix policy is really, really fucking stupid too.

    Their price plans and even the descriptions actively encourage watching on mobile devices ('resolution tiers best suited for / watch across X number of devices') but it has to be inside the perimeter of your home? :cat-confused:

    So you can watch Netflix on all your phones and tablets, but only if you're already at a few feet away from your TV? :cat-confused:

    If you watch Netflix on your phone while your commute or travel like flying, on holiday or while you're staying in a hotel for work, then you're committing fraud. :blob-stop:

    Even the language they use most likely makes it legally unenforceable. They constantly refer to a 'household' (not just in this exchange) when they mean the property, despite the fact that the literal meaning of household is a home and it's occupants even when they're elsewhere. :picard:

    Anyway, Netflix is bad, don't pay for Netflix. If you have to watch a load of Office and TNG reruns just pirate that shit. :party-blob:

    • GalaxyBrain [they/them]
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      2 years ago

      For tng, the blu ray set is pricey but totally worth it. They remastered it from the film negative up. It looks like it was shot last week.

        • GalaxyBrain [they/them]
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          2 years ago

          My hard drive would max out after the first couple discs. Also there's a shitload of bonus features. If you have the disc space, go right ahead and pirate it, if you watch tng a lot anyway, it's good bang for your buck as well.

            • GalaxyBrain [they/them]
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              2 years ago

              Agreed. My practical reasoning aside are binus features/commentaries which are a dying art as well and that it's a physical object and completely understand your control. Every p2p and torrent could easily be wiped out forever even if unlikely so for the stuff I really really like such as Star Trek or Twin Peaks or whatever I just feel better knowing no one can ever tske that from me unless the power grids go down.

              Leas rationally I like physical media and having shelves full of things I like and can glance at the spines of any time and be reminded that I haven't seen something in a minute the way you can't digitally (ahit that's rational) and cause shelves of fun stuff to watch that you get up and pick out irl just has a feel.

    • Sea_Gull [they/them]
      hexagon
      ·
      2 years ago

      Bayonetta Voice: I've got a fever, and the only cure is more dead pedestrians!

  • Torenico [he/him]
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    edit-2
    2 years ago

    piracy is morally good and corporations like netflix should be executed as soon as possible.

    • Mindfury [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      i wouldn't let my """""self-driving""""" car watch netflix, it should be watching the road!

  • LaGG_3 [he/him, comrade/them]
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    2 years ago

    Has Netflix already started trying to enforce the account sharing upcharge thing? Lol :stonks-down:

    • MolotovHalfEmpty [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      Basically everyone I know who had Netflix has cancelled it in the last 2 months. They never release numbers so we won't know exactly how badly they've been fucking up lately, but it can't be good.

    • Aryuproudomenowdaddy [comrade/them]
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      2 years ago

      They have to make up the cost of the mountain of money they blew on adding games to the service that only 1% of subscribers use or even know exists.

  • flan [they/them]
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    2 years ago

    how does the enforcement work? like do you occasionally have to connect to whatever network netflix has decided is “home”?

  • autismdragon [he/him, they/them]
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    2 years ago

    I thought Netflix walked this shit back lmao? Did they just say they were and then did it anyway? Not that I would be surprised but goddamn.

  • Sen_Jen [they/them]
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    2 years ago

    My dad pays for a bunch of subscription services like Netflix, Amazon Prime, Disney+, so I just use those until I get randomly logged out and can't remember the password. Then I just pirate stuff

  • CriticalResist8 [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    You can download Stremio then look up this link https://torrentio.strem.fun/configure and watch everything ala netflix except for free. And yes it works on all devices, even your TV.