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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

It's the quality of service that they offer, I don't mind paying £60-70 a month for all my tv/movies but when the services don't even work well, have terrible experiences and constant caveats to using them it's just not worth it. Go spend the money on a self-hosted solution for a better experience and be done with it. It's not exactly cheaper either it's just less of a headache.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Some of us have very good reasons for pirating, I was paying for every service under the sun in the UK last year and I dropped them all simply because the moment I went on holiday practically none of them worked. At that point, I realised that they just weren't worth it and I could build something out and self-host a far better service.

So I spent something like 2 grand doing that knowing at least I'll never have that issue again, Piracy is always a service issue first and foremost and most of these services are crap. Netflix still at least has a reasonable interface and a good experience across every device but Prime video is atrocious, P+ is likewise terrible and don't ever get me started on NowTV.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Look into an SE version 2, those aren't half bad either if you're trying to save a bit of money.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

This is pretty much the best answer, Debian with flatpak is your best option as it will be the most familiar and the safest bet.

Another alternative is to go the Arch route, which comes with its own headaches.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I don’t think you should be afraid of asking for help, the ones that will offer help are usually going to be very patient.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

Yeah the boost thing on NowTV is something I can never pay for out of principle it’s atrocious. Not to mention the experience on a pc is terrible.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

I’m with you on this, I used to avoid using apple products at all costs due to the way they are so anti consumer and lock you in heavily to their ecosystem.

But in terms of security and privacy they aren’t even playing on the same level. Android will never be as privacy or security focused as apple due to the way google runs its business so long term a Linux mobile operating system would be the dream.

Until then I stick with what I can use which is the apple products for now.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Overall a solid episode, a little different but ultimate felt very core Star Trek TOS with strange alien life and coming to a resolution.

Paul Wesley continues to impress me in the role of James T Kirk but his character did not need to be in this episode, they need to be careful with how they use him going forward.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago

Just how little it seems people in my role seem to actually do or know about their role.

Also how it seems that every time I try to make requests based on facts, figures and numbers it always ends up being more of a we'll do things based on the vibe because they don't need to see the data as they already " know " the data.

Basically, I make a request for more budget, but I get pushed back your budget should be like Y budget as we have looked at the numbers and deem it so. I have data that proves our budget can't be like Y budget due to 2 to 3x the workload. Surprised Pikachu face.

It's happened to me 3-4 times now and it makes me think maybe I take my job too seriously.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

in recent years I'd say Dizzie Rascal.

In my entire lifetime that award goes to Mandela

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago

The price to pay for myself to move is way too high, I use 3 chrome profiles daily. 1 as my personal gmail and 2 work email profiles and trying to manage that in Firefox is just not worth it.

A lot of businesses use the google services and when you’re locked into using them through work there’s absolutely no reason to not just do everything in chrome with profiles.

There’s also the fact that Firefox sync is absolutely shit compared to the google sync features and while I understand why from a user perspective it’s a massive loss of functionality.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Now you're making me nostalgic for Myspace

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