this post was submitted on 19 May 2025
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Fuck Subscriptions

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Naming and shaming all "recurring spending models" where a one-time fee (or none at all) would be appropriate and logical.

Expect use of strong language.

Follow the basic rules of lemmy.world and common sense, and try to have fun if possible.

No flamewars or attacking other users, unless they're spineless corporate shills.

Note that not all subscriptions are awful. Supporting your favorite ~~camgirl~~ creator or Lemmy server on Patreon is fine. An airbag with subscription is irl Idiocracy-level dystopian bullshit.

New community rule: Shilling for cunty corporations, their subscriptions and other anti-customer practices may result in a 1-day ban. It's so you can think about what it's like when someone can randomly decide what you can and can't use, based on some arbitrary rules. Oh what, you didn't read this fine print? You should read what you're agreeing to.

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Some other groovy communities for those who wish to own their products, their data and their life:

Right to Repair/Ownership

Hedges Development

Privacy

Privacy Guides

DeGoogle Yourself

F-Droid

Stallman Was Right

Some other useful links:

FreeMediaHeckYeah

Louis Rossman's YouTube channel

Look at content hosted at Big Tech without most of the nonsense:

Piped

Invidious

Nitter

Teddit

 

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago
[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Imagine going to thrift stores for 15 minutes after work and ending up with all of these on DVD?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago

Problem is shows like “it’s always sunny” that i wanted to do this with, stopped making physical dvd releases after like season 10. Disney + also removed a bunch of episodes for “being offensive” which if that worries you, why are you watching its always sunny?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Imagine going straight home after work and steaming whatever you want instantly because you have Stremio + Torrentio?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 18 hours ago

Imagine pirating all that, not paying for it, AND having Blurays?

What else are you doing with those 15 minutes, working on world peace?

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

Don’t know what they’re but I would just go to Sonarr and add Southpark and at some point they’ll appear in Plex.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 17 hours ago

Well with Stremio you don't need to do that, because it's laid out like Netflix. That's why I prefer it over Plex; no downloading, no transferring files over (and if you add a Debrid service to the mix, no waiting on seeds, either). Just pick what you want to watch with your TV remote and enjoy. It's convenient enough that your Boomer parents could navigate it with ease.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 day ago (1 children)

These are some of the best episodes ever. Boo on them for being censors

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago

To be fair, Jared Has Aides was NOT made with the knowledge that Jared did in fact want to give children AIDS

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

People pay to watch nutrek mostly

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

when the trek stops I unsubscribe. When the blurays come out I rip them to my jellyfin. If they have a big enough gap without trek, they stop getting my money

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

Colin from Accounts Season 2

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Apparently it's because of Paramount Germany. Those episodes had, to quote them, "anti Semitic commentary"

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

It's only Germany as well, other countries get all of them. Including the United States. This reaction to a Twitter post is overblown. Germany has laws that must be followed that's all

Everyone here is reacting to a random person on Twitter as if they are telling the truth.

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

No, paramount blocks it in the US too if it gets blocked in Germany, so whilst the right thing to do is to block it for German accounts only, it's not what happens

[–] [email protected] 24 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Thanks for letting me know. Bout time for a rewatch.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

Running qBittorrent in headless mode (qbittorrent-nox running on my own server) with VueTorrent skin. This is the view in a browser.

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

oh, I didn't know the qb web interface can be skinned. is it "just" visuals, or can they also add features?

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

I think its only adding UI features :). I count mobile friendly view as a feature, thought its only a visual change. The one I use.

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

Can I get headless qbittorrent if setup currently with docker?

Aslo, you chose a damn large file for Southpark.

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

75 GB for the whole South Park series doesn't sound like a lot

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

I guess it depends on preference. When I check in Sonarr the largest file I can see is 35GB but I would have been choosing something around 15GB.

Is the quality 6 times better for the larger one?

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

Is the quality 6 times better for the larger one?

Probably not, but I tend to download at a quality where the compression doesn't really feel noticeable

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

Fair point.

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

I run on bare metal because I'm more comfortable with it that way but I think there's regularly updated containers that do just what you want. linuxserver/qbittorrent looks like a good bet.

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

Thanks dude.

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

linuxserver/qbittorrent

Can confirm it works well

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I went over to my laptop to check if you're downloading the same one I'm seeding

unfortunately not, Im seeding 1-26 and you're downloading 1-21. Would've been funny tho

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago

Thank you for your service

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Time for piracy to make a swift comeback.

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

Why you're not pirating. You're just training your LLM.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 days ago

Dont support the service. Plain simple. Well, I know you guys dont, but yea... just my 2 cents nobody asked for :D

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