Technology

Me and my homies sail the high seas 🦜☠️⛵ 🌊

I pirate literally everything.

I used yt-dlp and downloaded a shitload of old commercials once and I stick then in a random playlist to get the full TV effect. Never know what'll be on.

From the bottom of my heart, to everyone involved in the production of any kind of media: I hope you fall face into a fifty deep wishing well full of human shit and erect dicks.

... and that said, I cancelled years ago after their 3rd price hike in 18 months (in Canada). been sailing the high seas ever since and feel absolutely no guilt whatsoever. I remember their excuse was always something like, "In order to continue to bring you top-shelf content, we must also continue to raise your monthly fee, while at the same time our original content becomes increasingly shitty and we systematically remove quality content from our library, leaving you with horrible Netfux originals as your only option"

RealDebrid is going to shut down their API, FYI. I'd check out TorBox.

I's a great way to download Linux ISOs.

Alt: Winnie the Pooh in a treasure chest full of his favorite pirate booty

Eheheh, sneaky.

Not pay for their service. Pretty simple. If only there was a way to watch their shows without doing so.

Oh, I might post a snarky comment. I dropped Netflix a while ago.

Does life really have to get ever shittier, just because a few people need more money?

Sure, everyone can live without Netflix. But some entertainment is good, not just individually, but also socially. Lots of public entertainment has died down during the pandemic. Now entertainment is getting more expensive while people already have too little money because everything else got too expensive.

Where does this end? When everyone can barely afford rent & food, and nothing else? After all, nothing else is essential, right?

I'd pirate meds if I needed them and had to deal with American pricing

TLDR: To make a long story short, Netflix used to be the crown jewel that had everything. Now they arguably have a much worse catalog, for a higher price, on a platform you can't have your family members share because they live in another household.

I definitely see your point but I can also sympathize with the other point. The way I see it, the market is saturated with streaming services that all get, I assume, licenses to show different shows/movies.

Because of this, consumers are spreading their spending between platforms to potentially watch only specific shows. I would guess that most people really only have a few movies/shows they actually want to watch. The rest being filler.

As an example, maybe people bought paramount+ for Yellowstone. Sure maybe SpongeBob or others that they have, but compared to their entire offering, that's only a few. Maybe that 10-15 dollars a month makes it worth it but when you keep raising it and offer worse items or cancel actually good shows while keeping alive shitty ones because they're trending (subjective, I know) then that's where the anger can stem from I think.

Yeah I really don’t know what a fair price for streaming is. They can charge what they want and I’ll pay if I think it’s worth it.

My current pattern is to keep one or two streaming services at a time and when I run out of shows I drop one and add a different one.

People are disappointed though that the service used to be a much better value. It’s like most things that start out good and become “enshittified” as the service provider tries to extract more and more profit.

This is the only real tenable choice.

Netflix users that subscribe year-round at this point either have lots of extra income, or very little going on upstairs.

cut one layer of the parasitic middlemen out of the loop. 👍

the corporate noose is tightening on everyone; the rope will either fray and snap on drop or simply break our necks. I am sickened by the short-term likely outcome, because so few people are pulling out the knives and cutting at their tethers.

As someone nostalgic for DVD extras I might start doing that.

I found an audio track on an… acquired copy of Star Trek: TMP with the Okudas and it got me to watch the whole thing twice in a row.

Just read few posts above that Blue ray is done with Sony shutting down last factory for drives. I guess it's time to stock drives 🤷‍♂️

If anyone knows of a player I can vertically mount to the wall let me know and I'll buy it today. I see that kind of thing for CDs. It's still just a spinning disc!