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Tech's broken promises: Streaming is now just as expensive and confusing as cable. Ubers cost as much as taxis. And the cloud is no longer cheap. (www.businessinsider.com)

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago (3 children)

I recently upgraded my home "streaming" setup from an aging RPi3 connected running OSMC off of an NFS share drive from my local server to running Jellyfin directly from the server and connecting to it via the Jellyfin app on my Roku stick

With the crackdown on password sharing, the family accounts are dwindling so the pirating has increased again. Keeping Netflix for now and Shudder as I'm a horror fan, but otherwise everything else is 🏴‍☠️

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)

i wonder if setting up your own personal vpn would help with the netflix account thing.

i'm imaging a scenario where you setup your own vpn server and everyone you want to share that account with uses netflix through that vpn server.

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

It would probably work, but the accounts we shared before were Hulu and Disney+, none of which were "my" original accounts. So having to go through the hassle of showing family members VPNs and setting them up wouldn't be worth it compared to just pirating.

The biggest loss to cutting streaming services is mostly discovery of finding some random show/film to watch. If you're going to torrent something, you have to know what you want first. It doesn't bother me much, but it's kind of a bummer when you want to just put something on.

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

So having to go through the hassle of showing family members VPNs and setting them up wouldn’t be worth it compared to just pirating.

agreed and it never ceases to amaze me that asking people to double click on an icon on their desktop for a shell/powershell script that will start both the vpn and netflix is just too technical for someone to do even though they do it all the time anyways for their other applications.

... but it’s kind of a bummer when you want to just put something on.

this is a good thing for me; i descend from hardcore couch potatoes and i think that not having access to put something on is the only reason i get to avoid it.