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Me too!
Pretty much. Even if I didn't prefer owning the actual files and managing my own media server, streaming services are just dogshit these days anyway. Overpriced, libraries are all ass, no one service will ever have everything you want, constantly removing shit, they're awful.
A jellyfin setup backed by an *arr stack may be a lot more work than a Netflix subscription but it's legitimately better in every single way otherwise.
+1 for Jellyfin. Better than Plex because it's free. Still worse on some features, but let's hope!
let's wait or help instead!
I feel like this is a trend on free software, where instead of enshitifying, software always starts being worse but slowly gets better overtime until it surpasses the commercial alternatives (libre office, blender, firefox, thunderbird, ...). Unless the project dies of course, which happens when it doesn't get enough support.
I would try but there are just so many streaming platforms it's not even worth it plus I would want one that lets me put it on my jellyfin so...
Once burnt, twice shy.
And that's without even considering proprietary software to get content, DRM, remote deletion, etc.
And of course, many streaming services don't even tell you what they have unless you are already subscribed.
Just Watch is a pretty great service for this, especially when recommending a show or movie to others. Other services integrate with it too (like Trakt, which is a nice one stop shop for discovery, scrobbling, and list management).
Netflix ended my home media server. Well, Netflix was good enough that when sonebody broke my home media server I didn't bother fixing it.
Netflix and Prime and Disney and N local services brought back my home media server.
You mean the three services you listed that keep raising their prices every 6 months? It is going to be an expensive replacement.
That's what I was alluding to.
The advent of streaming services replaced my home media.
The enshittification of said streaming services have caused me to bring back my home media
Same. I wondered why I'd want a media pc. Now i have 2
Reread his comment.
And squander an opportunity for belligerent snark?
clutches pearls
Remember when we thought streaming would solve these issues, and capitalism destroyed a great idea? Pepperidge farm remembers.
Yes! I was so excited. I hated spending hours at Blockbuster and all those late fees. Crony-capitalism sure made a mess out of the "solution."
I miss rental places. I always loved it haha. Plus I could rent games which was sweet
It's been pretty cool seeing new formats and compressions for popular movies get released like yearly.
Streaming services can't keep up with the quality of what get's released on torrents.
The raison d'etre of video streaming, ending cable... only to reproduce cable decades later.
Segmentation, exclusives... somehow the music industry didn't go down that path. The game industry is mostly doing the same, except mostly Valve and indies.
I wonder that pattern is part of enshitification, the inexorable transformation of a delivery service to rather than facilitate the distribution of content, make it actually harder to share it while keeping reasonable (always arguable) money to all parties involved, first and foremost the actual creators.
the game industry tried to fragment before too, until they all came crawling back to steam recently.
There were people who watched cable companies follow this exact trajectory who warned us all a decade and a half ago
Me exactly. I keep a lot of the streaming services because I don't want to host a bunch of 4k stuff myself, though I do often get the 1080p stuff for when I fly on planes or haven't yet re upped my subscription for the show I want to watch. But many shows aren't on any of the sub services in my country, so those are straight to the seedbox.