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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Exactly why I run Kodi on my firetv

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

The average US household spent over $500/yr on streaming services in 2024, which was actually down YOY!

At that sort of expense, you would be much better served buying (or if you’re technically minded - building) a NAS at home and then just..

.. yaaar! 🏴‍☠️

That way, you keep access to the media without having to worry about licenses expiring or the internet going out.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

Would you like to see a film? It's $60 to enter the movie theater. A chair to sit in is $10. You wanted to see the film? You need the glasses to unscramble the screen image. $40. Audio? That's for due paying subscribers $4.99/mo. You want to exit the theater? $120. In case of fire? Cleaning up your ashes generates a $200 fee.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Hmm, pay $20 a month apiece for 20 different shitty streaming services that use ads, or $6/month for Usenet access and $1/month for indexer access, and get every movie and TV show for nothing extra...

Choices, choices.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

What’s the easiest/best way to start with UseNet? I’ve wanted to give it a try for the longest time - but it just feels like such a daunting task to try and figure out..

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

It's not complicated. The Usenet provider gives you access to Usenet, and the indexer lets you search it for whatever you want. You then download it with a Usenet client. You can do it manually, much the same way as you download a torrent from any site. if you've downloaded a torrent before, you would be able to manage Usenet with no issues at all.

Or, if you're willing to spend a few hours setting up the Servarr apps on an old computer like I did, you can automate the whole thing. I recommend this option, because you do it once and then you have a seamless way to fetch files from torrent and Usenet both without ever doing anything more than typing in the name of the show/movie. The Servarr apps search for, download, and import media into my library so that I can stream them to all my devices using Jellyfin (or Plex, if you like corpo apps). They even fetch proper subtitles for everything, and I also have it set up so after I've watched an episode, it's deleted to make room for something else. It's as easy as Netflix, at a fraction of the cost.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Huge library of [legally acquired] digital media is nice too

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

What are you talking about? Of course I got the BIOS from my PS2 using a flash drive. Of course I manually backed up physical games I own. I would never illegally download.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I bought a Chinese made emulation device for $60 and it came with all the games and firmwares I would ever want or need. It was then I knew China is the shit.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Oh, I bought it from Amazon to boot.

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

Me: Well alrighty then, what other thing do I want to watch...

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 month ago

This service is not available in your country.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Damn, I'm on world. Where should I move to? Been getting tired of world's bs

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I mean lemmy.dbzer0.com, the instance that is hosted on. I mean, an intance that allows that probably doesn't have much bullshit authoritarianism. The instance owner is a self-declared anarchist, although, if you are a "right-wing anarchist" (or other right-wing ideologies) you might not like it here.

Other options are:

sh.itjust.works

lemmy.ca

sopuli.xyz

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Sound like the place for me. Thanks stranger.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I went from world to shitjustworks. Big worth.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

So it does, in fact, work?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

Best run instance in the fediverse matey :-)

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 month ago

Or you can buy it for $30, but no you can't have a digital copy. And if, in the future, the service folds, then you can no longer watch it.

[–] [email protected] 73 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

the lemmy comment section 🔥

the lemmy comment section 🔥

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 month ago

We may have our differences, but we are all very anti-corporate.

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