Streaming prices are out of hand. What are cheaper alternatives?
Just steal everything. The powers that be rob you blind every day in a death by a thousand cuts kinda way.
They don’t give a fuck about you, don’t pay them any courtesies in return.
Piracy.
Your public library.
Consume less media in general.
Buy stuff once (eg: DVDs, drm free music)
Here I was giving them training wheels, and you said, “Nah, here’s how you take a hairpin turn with a stick shift.” 😅
Don’t make me tell them about them about the *arrs, usenet and jellyfin. Minds will be blown :)
The *arrs + JF + sabnzdb + torrents = complete and total replacement.
That exact stack has been the ruin of many a poor boy.
Just a hop, step and a leap from there to Proxmox and complete ungovernablity (host ALL your own replacements - Immich, Syncthing, Lemmy instance, Pi Hole, Paperless, Calibre, Navidrome…all the black magics)
DANGER. HERE THERE BE DRAGONS. (Expensive ones)
Good sir, Tim Curry would greet you as a member of Flint’s own crew.
👉 Your local public library. You can borrow movies and books. Return them so someone else can use them too. Not run afoul of the law. Libraries are great!
Take what you can. Give nothing back!
But all jokes aside, do give back by seeding your torrents. Some stuff is hard to get complete copies because of leechers.
I never stopped. Welcome back, the waters fine.
How is this a surprise to anyone? They came to replace cable.
No, you still don’t get it.
THEY CAME TO REPLACE CABLE.
At this point I’d think a good number of folks either don’t remember or simply never experienced cable/satellite TV.
Hard to compare against something you’ve never experienced.
a basic cable package in my city costs $100. A high end one costs $200.
Netflix basic is 8 bucks, netflix premium is 25.
That’s exactly my point. Cable didn’t start off costing $100-$200. In the beginning it was a few bucks as an ad-free alternative to antenna TV. Then they raised prices, just a little at a time, over many years, as well as introduced ads. Sound familiar?
I promise you, some day streaming will cost $100-$200, too. And people will pay it, just like your grandparents do today.
I say again: streaming is here to REPLACE cable. You’re living in the golden age of low-cost entertainment and you don’t even know it.
fmhy.net is a constantly updated directory of streaming piracy sites. Make sure you have an ad blocker and enjoy any show from any service instantly with no sign up.
Beat me to it, love fmhy
Jump aboard, matey! The seas are always open and full of joyous plunder.
I’d say piracy … but it’s definitely not cheaper the way I do it (at least not short term).
But if you have some spare storage and don’t need a huge amount of content, that’s a good option.
What are you spending the money on? Physical sever devices? Electricity?
Hard drives. That shit’s gotten expensive lately. But keeping your own media is worth it. Also, paying for the annual VPN subscription.
🏴☠️ good ol’ piracy will never let you down. 🏴☠️
Jellyfin on an old computer that you happen to have lying around is free.
You can get videos to watch by going to your library and checking them out and using MakeMKV to rip them to digital format and saving them to the Jellyfin server.
Alternatively, many thrift stores and pawn shops sell DVDs usually for a buck or two.
I see a ton of people talking about setting up a nas and running Plex or Jellyfin, and i do prefer to store my own media but I’ve gotten so many more people to switch over since suggesting stremio.
People can take their current firestick or android tv, delete Netflix and Hulu and get stremio set up in 10 minutes. Pay $3/m for torbox and you get a pretty seamless streaming service.
People still pay for this shit?
Jesus dude, buy an android TV and use Cloudstream or Stremio and the cost will just be the device itself. If you have decent internet but your ISP blocks that kind of streaming traffic, use DNS over HTTPS
I’m on Android and using ArchiveTunes to stream free music. No more Spotify.
